Professor Dr. Christoph Gornott

Methodologically, I work in a strongly interdisciplinary way and develop a range of quantitative approaches, from econometric impact assessment to statistical and process-based modelling and machine learning. With these methods I analyse how agricultural production systems respond to climate stress and how regions build economic and ecological resilience in the face of environmental change. I combine large geospatial datasets from field trials, remote sensing and climate models with socio-economic data from farm and household surveys, which lets me link climate impacts on production and livelihoods to regional economic adaptation patterns at high spatial resolution. This integration of biophysical and economic analysis across scales enables me to evaluate both the effectiveness and the costs of adaptation strategies, and to identify where and how agricultural systems are most vulnerable to climate change.

• Undorf, Dimitrova, Harrington, Hegerl, Jézéquel, Kimutai, Lo, Mengel, Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Pietroiusti, Pinto, Schurer, Scussolini, Sippel, Stone, Stuart-Smith, Gudmundsson, Huber, Colón-González, Dellicour, Erazo, Fischer, Frieler, Gornott, Hawkins, Holden, Koren, Lampe, Mitchell, Murken, New, Nkwasa, Seneviratne, Wehner, Thiery, 2026: Approaches and challenges in attributing climate change impacts, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.
• Abigaba, Schauberger, Chemura, Gornott, Climate change shows inverse effects on grain yield and protein concentration in West Africa, Earth’s Future.
• Hampf, Weituschat, Murken, Rasolofo, Gornott, 2026: Climate change impacts on crop yields across Madagascar and household-informed adaptation strategies, Agricultural Systems.
• Achola, Chemura, Gornott, 2026: Mapping climate vulnerability to support climate adaptation in maize farming systems in Kenya, Food Security.
• Kumari, Shukla, Gornott, 2025: Understanding spatiotemporal changes of crop species diversity for India, Ecological and Sustainability Indicators.
• Maskell, Shukla, Murken, Nguyen, Weituschat, Gornott, 2025: Do the ends represent the means? Assessing adaptive capacity determinants against proactive and reactive adaptive actions in Vietnam’s coffee growing region, Weather, Climate, and Society.
• Gloy, Chemura, Tchindjang, Gornott, 2025: Mapping climate change impacts on cocoa-agroforestry systems in Cameroon to mitigate future deforestation, Agronomy for Sustainable Development.
• Chemura, Arumugum, Murken, Romanovska, Kutesa, von Loeben, Gornott, 2025: Contribution of improved varieties to maize productivity under climate change in Uganda, Food Security.
• Jansen, Undorf, Gornott, 2025: Current and future adaptation potential of heat-tolerant maize in Cameroon: a combined attribution and adaptation study, Environmental Research Letters.
• Becker, Schauberger, Schulz, Merz, Gornott, 2025: The vulnerability of winter wheat in Germany to air temperature, precipitation or compound extremes is shaped by soil-climate zones, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
• Maskell*, Shukla*, Jagannathan*, Browne*, Ulibarri, Champbell, Franz, Grady, Joe, Kirchhoff, Madhavan, Michaud, Sharma, Singh, Orlove, Alverio, Ajibade, Bowen, Chauhan, Galappaththi, Hudson, Mach, Musah-Surugu, Petzold, Reckien, Schauberger, Segnon, van Bavel, Gornott *shared first authorship, 2025: Dichotomy or Continuum? A global review of the interaction between autonomous and planned adaptations, Ecology & Society.
• Abigaba, Chemura, Gornott, Schauberger, 2024: The potential of agroforestry to buffer climate change impacts on suitability of coffee and banana in Uganda, Agroforestry Systems.
• Murken, Tomalka, Abigaba, Amoah, Amougou, Anaba, Arumugam, Awori, Baek, Below, Cartsburg, Chemura, Cronauer, Didovets, Gizaw, Gleixner, Gloy, Grams, Habtemariam, Hampf, Hauf, Heckmann, Ibrahim, Jansen, Jarawura, Kagonbé, Kaufmann, Kephe, Klockemann, Lange, Laudien, Liersch, Lipka, Lüttringhaus, Neer, Neya, Noleppa, Ostberg, Pollig, Romanovska, Röhrig, Schauberger, Shukla, Staubach, Tchindjang, Undorf, Vetter, von Loeben, von Stechow, von Witzke, Weituschat, Wortmann, Yalew, Zouh, Gornott, 2024 : The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: Lessons learned from the AGRICA project, Environmental Research Letters.
• Romanovska, Undorf, Schauberger, Duisenbekovam, Gornott, 2024: Human-made climate change has decreased wheat production in northern Kazakhstan, Environmental Research: Climate.
• Murken, Mager, Laudien, Krähnert, Gornott, 2024: The impact of weather risk on tenure security – Evidence from smallholder farmers in Tanzania, Land Economics.
• Chemura, Gleixner, Gornott, 2024: Dataset of the suitability of major food crops in Africa under climate change, Scientific Data.
• Murken, Krähnert, Gornott, 2024: Is this land for sale? The effects of drought on land ownership in Uganda, Ecological Economics.
• Romanovska, Schauberger, Gornott, 2023: Wheat yields in Kazakhstan can successfully be forecasted using a statistical crop model, European Journal of Agronomy.
• Romanovska, Gleixner, Gornott, 2023: Climate data uncertainty for agricultural impact assessments in West Africa, Theoretical and Applied Climatology.
• Arumugam, Chemura, Aschenbrenner,  Schauberger, Gornott, 2022: Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies: an assessment on sorghum for Burkina Faso, European Journal of Agronomy.
• Chemura, Kutywayo, Hikwa, Gornott, 2022: Climate change and cocoyam (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) production: Assessing impacts and potential adaptation strategies in Zimbabwe, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change.
• Chemura, Nangombe, Gleixner, Chinyoka, Gornott, 2022: Changes in climate extremes and their effect on maize (Zea mays L.) suitability over Southern Africa, Frontiers in Climate.
• Murken, Gornott, 2022: The importance of different land tenure systems for farmers’ response to climate change: a systematic review, Climate Risk Management.
• Laudien, Schauberger, Waid, Gornott, 2022: A forecast of staple crop production in Burkina Faso to enable early warnings of shortages in domestic food availability, Scientific Reports.
• Will, Backes, Campenni, Cronk, Dressler, Gornott, Groeneveld, Habtemariam, Kraehnert, Kraus, Lenel, Osgood, Taye, Müller, 2021: Improving the design of climate insurance: Combining empirical approaches and modelling, Climate and Development.
• Maskell, Chemura, Nguyen, Gornott, Mondal, 2021: Integration of Sentinel optical and radar data for mapping smallholder coffee production systems in Vietnam, Remote Sensing of Environment.
• Vinke, Rottmann, Gornott, Zabre, Schwerdtle, Sauerborn, 2021: Is migration an effective adaptation to climate-related agricultural distress in sub-Saharan Africa, Population and Environment.
• Volk, Gornott, Sieber, Lana, 2021: Can Tanzania’s adaptation measures prevent future maize yield decline? A simulation study from Singida Region, Regional Environmental Change.
• Chemura, Mudereri, Yalew, Gornott, 2021: Climate change and specialty coffee potential in Ethiopia, Scientific Reports.
• Arumugam, Chemura, Schauberger, Gornott, 2021: Remote Sensing Based Yield Estimation of Rice (Oryza Sativa L.) Using Gradient Boosted Regression in India, Remote Sensing.
• Habtemariam, Gornott, Hoffmann, Sieber, 2021: Farm production diversity and household dietary diversity: panel data evidence from rural households in Tanzania, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
• Shukla, Gleixner, Yalew, Schauberger, Sietz, Gornott, 2021: Dynamic vulnerability of smallholder agricultural systems in the face of climate change for Ethiopia, Environmental Research Letters.
• Chemura, Yalew, Gornott, 2021: Quantifying agroforestry yield buffering potential under climate change in the smallholder maize farming systems of Ethiopia, Frontiers in Agronomy.
• Lüttringhaus, Gornott, Wittkop, Noleppa, Lotze-Campen, 2020: The economic impact of exchanging breeding material: Assessing winter wheat production in Germany, Frontiers in Plant Science.
• Laudien, Schauberger, Makowski, Gornott, 2020: Robustly forecasting maize yields in Tanzania based on climatic predictors, Scientific Reports.
• Arumugam, Chemura, Schauberger, Gornott, 2020: Near real-time biophysical rice modeling to support crop insurance implementation in India, Agronomy.
• Dhamija, Shukla, Gornott, Joshi, 2020: Consistency in vulnerability assessments of wheat to climate change – A district-level analysis in India, Sustainability.
• Laudien, Schauberger, Gleixner, Gornott, 2020: Assessment of weather-yield relations of starchy maize at different scales in Peru to support the NDC implementation, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
• Schauberger, Jägermeyer, Gornott, 2020: A systematic review of local to regional yield forecasting approaches and frequently used data resources, European Journal of Agronomy.
• Chemura, Schauberger, Gornott, 2020: Impacts of climate change on agro-climatic suitability of major food crops in Ghana, PLoS ONE.
• Shukla, Agarwal, Gornott, Sachdeva, Joshi, 2019: Farmer typology to understand differentiated climate change adaptation in Himalaya, Scientific Reports.
• Brüssow, Gornott, Faße, Grote, 2019: The Link between Smallholders’ Perception of Climatic Changes and Adaptation in Tanzania, Climatic Change.
• Schwalbert, Amado, Nieto, Corassa, Rice, Peralta, Schauberger, Gornott, Ciampitti, 2019: Mid-season county-level corn yield forecast for US Corn Belt integrating satellite imagery and weather variables, Crop Science.
• Belesova, Gornott, Milner, Sié, Sauerborn, Wilkinson, 2019: Mortality Impact of Low Annual Crop Yields in a Subsistence Farming Population of Burkina Faso under the Current and a 1.5°C Warmer Climate in 2100, Science of the Total Environment.
• Graef, Mutabazi, Sieber, Asch, Makoko, Bonatti, Brüntrup, Gornott, Herrmann, Herrmann, Kaburire, Kahimba, Kimaro, Kuntosch, König, Lagwen, Lana, Lambert, Levy, Löhr, Maeda, Mbwana, Mchau, Mnimbo, Munder, Mwinuka, Ngwenya, Nickson, Nkonya, Saidia, Schäfer, Schindler, Silayo, Uckert, Wambura, William, 2019: Multi-Disciplinary North-South Collaboration in Participatory Action Research on Food Value Chains: a German-Tanzanian Case Study on Perceptions, Experiences and Challenges. Systemic Practice and Action Research.
• Lana, Vasconcelos, Gornott, Schaffert, Bonatti, Volk, Graef, Kersebaum, Sieber, 2018: Is dry soil planting an adaptation strategy for maize cultivation in a semi-arid region? Food Security.
• Albers, Gornott, Hüttel, 2017: How do inputs and weather drive wheat yield volatility? The example of Germany, Food Policy.
• Schauberger, Gornott, Wechsung, 2017: Global evaluation of a semiempirical model for yield anomalies and application to within-season yield forecasting, Global Change Biology.
• Conradt, Gornott, Wechsung, 2016: Extending and improving regionalized winter wheat and silage maize yield regression models for Germany: Enhancing the predictive skill by panel definition through cluster analysis, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
• Gornott & Wechsung, 2016: Statistical regression models for assessing climate impacts on crop yields: A validation study for winter wheat and silage maize in Germany, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
• Gornott & Wechsung, 2015: Level normalized modeling approach of yield volatility for winter wheat and silage maize on different scales within Germany, Jornal für Kulturpflanzen.

Other

• Gornott, Tomalka, von Loeben, Erl, Gloy, Grimm-Pampe, Heckmann, Jansen, Weituschat, 2026: Resilienzschwachstellen in der deutschen Lebensmittelversorgung, Berlin, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21210605
• Undorf, Iyakaremye, von Loeben, Kazora, Maniraguha, Musanganire, Gleixner, Menz, Erl, Gornott, 2026: High-resolution climate projection data for climate risk assessments in Rwanda. Scientific report, Kigali, Rwanda. METEO RWANDA & PIK, https://doi.org/10.48485/pik.2026.21
• Tomalka, Hunecke, Murken, Heckmann, Cronauer, Becker, Collignon, Collins-Sowah, Crawford, Gloy, Hampf, Lotze-Campen, Malevolti, Maskell, Müller, Popp, Vodounhessi, Gornott, Rockström, 2024: Stepping back from the precipice: Transforming land management to stay within planetary boundaries. Potsdam, Germany: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, https://doi.org/10.48485/pik.2024.018.
• Hampf, Murken, Gornott, 2024: Zukunftssicher durch Anpassung? Die Rolle klimaresilienter Sorten in der Landwirtschaft. In: Lozán, Graßl, Kasang, Quante & Sillmann: Warnsignal Klima: Wetterextreme schlagen zu - sie werden länger, häufiger & stärker, www.warnsignal-klima.de
• Tomalka, Bereswill, Murken, Thonicke, Gornott, 2024: Policy brief - The potential of forests and trees in addressing climate change Policy recommendations for the Ethiopian context, AGRICA Ethiopia (GIZ, BMZ) and B-EPICC (IKI, BMU).
  FAO, 2023: The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2023 – Avoiding and reducing losses through investment in resilience. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc7900en
• Gloy, Kephe, Jansen, Ostberg, Kaufmann, Staubach, Tchindjang, Romanovska, Vetter, Tomalka, Kagonbé, Anaba, Zouh, Amougou, Cronauer, Gornott, 2023: Climate risk analysis for adaptation planning in Cameroon's agricultural sector. A report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), DOI: 10.48485/pik.2023.023.
• Von Loeben, Abigaba, Adriko, Awori, Cartsburg, Chemura, Cronauer, Lipka, Murken, Muzafarova, Noleppa, Romanovska, Tomalka, Weituschat, Zvolsky, Gornott, 2023: Climate risk analysis for adaptation planning in Uganda's agricultural sector: An assessment of maize and coffee value chains. A report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), DOI: 10.48485/pik.2023.021.
• Laudien, Chemura, Cronauer, Gleixner, Heckmann, Staubach, von Witzke, Gornott, 2023: Climate risk analysis for adaptation planning in Zambia's agricultural sector. A report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), DOI: 10.48485/pik.2023.022.
• Hattermann, Fernández, Gleixner, Gloy, Gaedecke, Gornott, Salinas, Nava, Saavedra, Kaufmann, Cartsburg, Noleppa, 2023: Evaluación de riesgo climático para identificar estrategias robustas de adaptación en el sector del agua en Bolivia, A report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, https://bivica.org/file/view/id/6432
• von Loeben, Blocher, Destrijcker, Fischer, Gleixner, Hegre, Jansen, Jones, Kjærum, Lindqvist-McGowan, Manger, Mayer, Tomalka, Vesco, Wesch, & Zvolsky, Birner*, Vinke*, Gornott* (2022). Sahel Predictive Analytics Report. *shared last autorship.  https://unis-sahel.org/2022/11/02/sahel-predictive-analytics-report-moving-from-reaction-to-action-anticipating-vulnerability-hotspots-in-the-sahel-in-support-of-uniss/
• Gornott, Graß, Nerger, Bandel, Doucet, 2022: Klimawandel, in Wachendorf, Bürkert, Graß (Hg.) Ökologische Landwirtschaft, 2. aktual. u. erw. Aufl., Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart. https://www.utb.de/doi/book/10.36198/9783838555270
• Röhrig, Gloy, von Loeben, Arumugam, Aschenbrenner, Baek, Bado, Chemura, Habtemariam, Kaufmann, Koch, Laudien, Liersch, Lüttringhaus, Murken, Neya, Noleppa, Ostberg, Santo, Schauberger, Shukla, Tomalka, Wesch, Wortmann, Gornott, 2021: Climate Risk Analysis for Identifying and Weighing Adaptation Strategies for the Agricultural Sector in Burkina Faso. A report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
• Aschenbrenner, Chemura, Jarawura, Habtemariam, Lüttringhaus, Murken, Röhrig, Tomalka, Gornott, 2021: Climate Risk Analysis for Identifying and Weighing Adaptation Strategies for the Agricultural Sector in Northern Ghana - A Study at District Level in the Upper West Region. A report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 118 pp. DOI: 10.48485/pik.2021.001.
• Blocher, Vinke, Schellnhuber, Gleixner, Gornott, George, Kileli Leyani, Laudien, Lobanova, Ludescher, Weisz (2021). Assessing the Evidence: Climate Change and Migration in the United Republic of Tanzania. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam and International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva.
• Bergmann, Vinke, Fernández Palomino, Gornott, Gleixner, Laudien, Lobanova, Ludescher, Schellnhuber 2020: Assessing the Evidence: Climate Change and Migration in Peru. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, and International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva.
• Noleppa, Gornott, Lüttringhaus, Hackenberg, Gleixner, 2020: Climate change and its effects on banana production in Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Ecuador, HFFA Research HFFA Research Paper 01/2020
• Murken, Cartsburg, Chemura, Didovets, Gleixner, Koch, Lehmann, Liersch, Lüttringhaus, Rivas Lopez, Noleppa, Roehrig, Schauberger, Shukla, Tomalka, Yalew, Gornott, 2020: Climate risk analysis for identifying and weighing adaptation strategies in Ethiopia’s agricultural sector. A report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, 150 pp. https://doi.org/10.2312/pik.2020.003
• Wesch, Yalew, Below, Bertelmann, Gornott, Günther, Debelts, Poisson-Quinton, KarimSanogo, Wagner, 2020: Climate Change and Labor in sub-Saharan Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
• Tomalka, Lange, Röhrig, Gornott, 2020: Climate Risk Profile for Burkina Faso and Niger. A joint publication by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH and the KfW Development Bank, 12 pp., Climate Risk Profiles for Sub-Saharan Africa Series.
• Röhrig, Lange, Aschenbrenner, Chemura, Murken, Grams, Klockemann, Romanato, Haider, Gornott, 2019: Climate Risk Profile for Ghana. A joint publication by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH and the KfW Development Bank, 12 pp.
• Murken, Aschenbrenner, Chemura, Hattermann, Koch, Lehmann, Liersch, Röhrig, Schauberger, Yalew, Gornott, 2019: Climate risk analysis for identifying and weighing adaptation strategies in Ghana’s agricultural sector. A report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, 94 pp, https://doi.org/10.2312/pik.2020.001.
• Lüttringhaus, Noleppa, Gornott, Lotze-Campen, 2019: Climate change impacts on European crop production – A literature review, HFFA Research Paper 01 / 2019.
• Gornott, 2018: Improving crop modeling approaches for supporting farmers to cope with weather risks, Dissertation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/19266.
• Liersch, Gornott, 2015: Effects of climate change on sustainable food and nutrition security – with case studies in Kenya, Pakistan and Peru, Report Welthungerhilfe.

As sole project lead

• MEADOW (2024–2026): Measuring emission reduction and adaptation potentials in agricultural and food systems: what works at which scale?, funded by GIZ with 290 000 Euro.
• KaRisMa (2024–2027): Der Klima-Risiko-Manager: Ackerbauliche Risiken durch den Klimawandel systematisch minimieren, funded by BLE/BMEL with 215 000 Euro (lead of subproject).
• RENAT (2024–2026): Spatial assessments on production potential and climate resilience of natural farming in India, funded by KfW with 600 000 Euro.
• Attrifao2 (2023–2025): Assessment of climate change impacts on agricultural crop yields funded by FAO with 45 000 Euro.
• ProLiCo (2025–2026): Promoting the commercial growth of coffea Liberica to strengthen climate-resilience of Ugandan coffee farmers, funded by BMBF with 150 000 Euro.
• PACO (2023–2027): Implementing regional and national adaptation priorities in West and Central Africa, funded by BMUV with 1 300 000 Euro.
• CC&H (2024–2027): Forschungsgruppe „Klimawandel und Gesundheit in Afrika südlich der Sahara“ - Teilprojekt 03 „Ernährungssicherheit auf Haushaltsebene unter klimatischen Einflüssen und verschiedenen Anpassungsszenarien“, funded by DFG with 350 000 Euro (lead of subproject).
• AfriValue (2022–2026): Recommendations to avoid climate change-related effects in East African coffee value chains, funded by BMZ with 550 000 Euro.
• AGREE Pakistan (2022–2025): Mainstreaming climate change into higher education of Pakistan, funded by GIZ with 625 000 Euro.
• Attrifao (2021–2023): Assessment of climate change impacts on agricultural crop yields funded by FAO with 50 000 Euro.
• Agrica Sahel (2021-2023): Development of agricultural forecast systems and evaluation of adaptation strategies in the Sahel region, funded by BMZ with 1 800 000 Euro.
• InACRI (2020-2022): Implementation of agricultural insurances in Kenya, funded by BMBF with 500 000 Euro.
• CC&H (2020-2022): Climate change and health in Burkina Faso and Kenya, funded by DFG with 220 000 Euro.
• Geo.X (2019-2022): Coffee value chains in Ethiopia and Vietnam, funded by Helmholtz Association with 200 000 Euro.
• SNRD (2019-2019): Climate change and labor in sub-Saharan Africa, funded by GIZ with 6 000 Euro.
• Agrica West Africa (2018-2020): Agricultural modeling and evaluation of adaptation strategies in Niger and Burkina Faso, funded by GIZ and BMZ with 585 000 Euro.
• Agrica (2018-2020): Evaluation of adaptation strategies in Ethiopia, funded by GIZ and BMZ with 640 000 Euro.
• GhanAgrica (2018-2020): Agricultural modeling and evaluation of adaptation strategies for Ghana at national and district level, funded by GIZ and BMZ with 320 000 Euro.
• ClimSec (2018-2020): Climate change and security, development of an early warning system in Ethiopia, Mali and Burkina Faso, funded by the German Foreign Office with 200 000 Euro.
• AgRATI Demonstrator (2018-2019): Implementation of agricultural insurance solutions in India, funded by Climate-KIC with 300 000 Euro.
• AgRATI Accelerator (2017-2018): Implementation of agricultural insurance solutions in Tanzania, funded by Climate-KIC with 50 000 Euro.
• CLIMSU (2017-2018): Evaluation of sugar value chains in Brazil, funded by Climate-KIC with 150 000 Euro.
• YLIT (2017-2017): Development of index insurances for Tanzania, funded by Climate-KIC with 30 000 Euro.

Shared project lead

• TRANSFORM (2024–2027): Research for evidence-based climate policy through agricultural and food systems transformation, financing preservation forest sink and a just transition of the economy, funded by BMZ with 2 200 000 Euro.
• HiClAP (2023–2025): Climate projections for climate risk analysis in Rwanda, funded by GIZ with 220 000 Euro.
• CentraLand (2024–2025): Assessing land's centrality for global resilience, funded by UNCCD with 350 000 Euro.
• AGRICA Ethiopia (2023–2024): Strengthening climate-resilient land and natural resource management in Ethiopia, funded by GIZ with 100 000 Euro.
• AGRICA Madagascar (2021–2025): Supporting the implementation of adaptation measures in sub-Saharan Africa, funded by GIZ with 250 000 Euro.
• SCARF (2022–2025): Scaling agroforestry for holistic climate resilience-building in rural Tanzania, funded by BMUV with 800 000 Euro.
• AgrImpact (2023–2025): Evaluating the impact of agroecological practices on farm system resilience in Madagascar, funded by BMZ/ DEval with 350 000 Euro.
• ProRUWA (2021–2026): Promoting Academic Capacities for Sustainable Agricultural Resources Use in West Africa, funded by DAAD with 2 200 000 Euro.
• H2020_Insurance (2017-2020): Development of agricultural insurance solutions, EU-funded with 5 000 000 Euro.
• CAT Peru, together with GAF AG (2017-2018): Improvement of agricultural information systems in Peru, funded by GIZ, IKI and BMUB with 500 000 Euro.
• CYE - Crop Yield Estimates India, together with GAF AG (2017-2018): Development of yield indexes for India, funded by Munich Re with 240 000 Euro.
• Food Security, Migration and Conflict (FSMC), together with ZALF (2017-2017): Migration dynamics in East Africa, funded by the Leibniz Association with 24 000 Euro.
• CYE – Crop Yield Estimates Tanzania, together with GAF AG (2016-2017): Development of yield indexes for Tanzania, funded by Munich Re with 120 000 Euro.

Work package lead

• TRIO (2024–2027): Transformative Mischkultursysteme für One Health, funded by LOEWE with 4 000 000 Euro.
• ClimaKid (2025–2028): Digital solutions for attributing direct and indirect impacts of climate change on child mortality and undernutrition-related health outcomes, funded by Wellcome Trust with 3 500 000 Euro.
• DKN Arbeitsgruppe (2022-2024): Multi-risk and societal resilience in extreme events, funded by DFG with travel and conference costs.
• DecLaRe (2022–2026) Decision support for strengthening Land Resilience in the face of global challenges, funded by BMBF with 4 000 000 Euro (own funds 850 000 Euro).
• B-EPICC (2020–2024): Brazil East Africa Peru India Climate Capacities - Strengthening Resilience against Climate Change, funded by BMUV with 2 000 000 Euro.
• Green Vision Central Asia (2020-2024): Development of yield forecast systems, funded by the German Foreign Office with 2 300 000 Euro.
• EPICC (2018-2021): Climate services for Peru, India and Tanzania, funded by IKI and BMUB with 4 800 000 Euro.
• GeoCare (2017-2019): Advancement of yield forecasts for Germany focusing on big data in agriculture, funded by BLE with 280 000 Euro.
• Trans-SEC (2013-2018): Innovative strategies for safeguarding food security using technology and knowledge transfer, funded by BMBF, BMZ and GlobE with 7 500 000 Euro.

• Winner of the German-African Innovation Incentive Award (GAIIA) 2024 from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• Member of the Strategischer Begleitkreis (StBK) for transformation of agricultural systems of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
• Selected as Germany‘s “Top 40 under 40” in 2022
• Invited member of Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF) Working Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
• Member of the expert panel of the Clearing House for Risk Transfer from the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - UNFCCC)
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the DAAD climapAfrica – Climate change research in Africa network
• Member of the executive board of the Council for Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (ATSAF)
• Organized several Side Events at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP)
• Selected as word-leading supplier for agricultural loss assessments by Munich Re
• Policy advice in the field of climate change impacts on the agricultural sector for several ministries and international organizations
• Outreach to Media: via several newspaper articles (among them: Zeit, Spiegel, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Süddeutsche, Tagesspiegel, Handelsblatt, Welt, Bild, Hörzu, Ökotest, DPA), radio (e.g., Deutschlandfunk, MDR, WDR, Deutsche Welle, COSMO), television (e.g., Tagesschau, heute, nTV, hr3), and different podcasts (e.g., Sustain-Ability, 55 Countries, nTV/Panorama)