Lotze-Campen CV
Keynote Presentations from the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008
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Speaker: Hermann Lotze-Campen lotze-campen -at- pik-potsdam.de Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany Personal homepage |
Title of the talk: Monitoring, modelling and managing land-use change on a large scale (pdf: 3MB)
Biosketch
Hermann Lotze-Campen grew up on a farm near Norden in Ostfriesland. He studied Agricultural Sciences and Economics at the University of Kiel and the University of Reading (England), where he graduated in 1992 with a Master's degree in Agricultural Economics. For his doctoral studies he stayed in Kiel, at the University of Minnesota (USA) and at Humboldt University Berlin, where he received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 1998.
In 1999 Hermann joined the InfoTerra business development team at Astrium, a European space company, where he worked on the commercial potential of satellite remote sensing for agricultural purposes. In April 2001 Hermann joined PIK, where he is now a group leader in Research Domain 1, Earth System Analysis. Currently he is developing a modelling framework for the analysis of global food demand and its impact on agricultural land and water use, trade and the environment. He is also coordinating the Sustainability Geoscope activities.
Apart from research Hermann is a co-founder of agripol, a consultancy for policy advice and modelling. He is also an active member of APOLLO e.V., a German non-profit organisation that organises student exchanges and educational projects with Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. One of his favourite spare time activities is singing in the choir neuer chor berlin. Hermann is married to Edda Campen and has two children, Greta and Robert.
