Vice-President for Research and Sustainability
Professor Bernhard Brümmer
Professor Bernhard Brümmer has been one of the University of Göttingen's Vice-Presidents since April 2021. The University Senate elected Brümmer, who holds the Chair of Agricultural Market Analysis, for a first term of two and a second term of four years - until 2027. Previously, he was the Dean of Finance of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences for four years.
Curriculum Vitae
Academic and professional career
since 2011 | W3 Professorship for Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen |
2005 - 2011 | W2 Professorship for Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen |
2002 - 2005 | Assistant professor (‘Wissenschaftlicher Assistent’), Institute of Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen |
2001 - 2002 | Research Associate (‘Akademischer Rat’), Institute of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel |
1996 - 2001 | Ph.D. in agricultural economics, University of Kiel (Dr.sc.agr. summa cum laude 2001) |
1995 - 1996 | Studies in agricultural economics, Wageningen Agricultural University (European M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness 1996) |
1991 - 1996 | Studies in agricultural economics, University of Kiel (Diploma in Agricultural Sciences ‚Diplom-Agraringenieur‘ 1996) |
Awards, scholarships and memberships
2015 | Offered a Chair for International Agricultural Trade and Development (W3) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (declined) |
2006 | Offered a Chair for Agricultural Policy (W3) at the University of Hohenheim (declined) |
2004 | German Association of Agricultural Economics Award for outstanding work by a young researcher |
2002 | European Association of Agricultural Economics Award for the best article in the European Review of Agricultural Economics by a young scientist(2002) |
2002 | Kiel University Faculty of Agriculture Award for the best Ph.D. thesis |
Management and committee responsibilities
since 2021 | Vice-President for Research (since 2024 including Sustainabilty), University of Göttingen |
2017 - 2021 | Dean of Finance of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences |
2016 - 2024 | Review Board Member of DFG Review Board 207, Agricultural, Forestry and Veterinary Sciences |
2016 - 2022 | Editorial Board of the European Review of Agricultural Economics |
2012 - 2024 | Board member of the Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL), Executive Director from 2016-2019 |
2010 - 2018 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Chair (2016 - 2018) |
Research Interests
- International trade in the agri-food sector - market integration, price volatility, trade costs
- Resource productivity in agri-food value chains
- Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
- Agricultural trade and sustainable development
Top Publications (selection)
- Dalheimer, B., C. Kubitza & B. Brümmer (2022). Technical efficiency and farmland expansion: Evidence from oil palm smallholders in Indonesia. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 104: 1364-1387
- Berger, J., B. Dalheimer & B. Brümmer (2021). Effects of Variable EU Import Levies on Corn Price Volatility. Food Policy 102: 102063
- Fiankor, D-D. D., I. Flachsbarth, A. Masood & B. Brümmer (2020). Does GlobalGAP certification promote agrifood exports? European Review of Agricultural Economics 47 (1): 247-272.
- Fiankor, D-D. D., I. Martínez-Zarzoso, B. Brümmer (2019). Exports and governance: the role of private voluntary agrifood standards. Agricultural Economics 50 (3): 341-352.
- Skevas, I., G. Emvalomatis, B. Brümmer (2018). Productivity growth measurement and decomposition under a dynamic inefficiency specification: The case of German dairy farms. European Journal of Operational Research 271(1), 250-261.
- Huang, W., B. Brümmer, L. Huntsinger (2017). Technical efficiency and the impact of grassland use right leasing on livestock grazing on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. Land Use Policy 64, 342-352.
- Brümmer, B., O. Korn, K. Schlüßler, T.J. Jaghdani (2016). Volatility in oilseeds and vegetable oils markets: Drivers and spillovers. Journal of Agricultural Economics 67(3), 685-705.
- Huang, W., B. Brümmer, L. Huntsinger (2016). Incorporating measures of grassland productivity into efficiency estimates for livestock grazing on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in China. Ecological Economics 122, 1-11.
- Götz, L., T. Glauben, B. Brümmer (2013). Wheat export restrictions and domestic market effects in Russia and Ukraine during the food crisis. Food Policy 38, 214-226.
- Rao, E.J.O., B. Brümmer, M. Qaim (2012). Farmer participation in supermarket channels, production technology, and technical efficiency: The case of vegetables in Kenya. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 94(4), 891-912.
Further information
- Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use
- Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
- Chair of Agricultural Market Analysis
Office of the Vice-President
Olga Schwarz
Office of the Vice-President
Tel. +49 551 39-21026
Fax +49 551 39-18-21026
olga.schwarz@uni-goettingen.de
Dr Anna Stuhldreher
Personal Executive Assistant to the Vice-President for Research and Sustainability
Phone +49 551 39-21055
Fax +49 551 39-18-21055
referentin.vp-forschung@uni-goettingen.de
Responsibilities (in German)
- Senatskommission für Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit (KfKN) und Forschungskommission (FoKo)
- Forschung und Transfer
- Forschungsstrategie
- Forschungsförderung
- Drittmittelforschung
- Forschungsinfrastruktur
- Standortentwicklung
- Technologietransfer
- Ethikkommission
- Open Science
- Research Assessment
- Akademische Karriereentwicklung
- Karrierewege Postdocs
- Graduiertenschulen
Departments of the central administration and central institutes (in German)
- Eigenbetriebe und Tierschutz
- Ethikkommission
- Forschung und Transfer (F)
- Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek – Forschung (SUB)
- Zentren
Representation of the University in boards of trustees/advisory boards (in German)
- EU-Netzwerkarbeit (The Guild, ENLIGHT)
Strategie Forschung
Strategie Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs - Nachwuchsförderung
Querschnittsaufgabe Nachhaltige Universität