Michael Peichl
Computational Hydrosystems (CHS) /
Climate Office for Central Germany
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 4663
fax: ++49 - 341 - 235 45 4663
michael.peichl@ufz.de

Areas of Expertise and Research
Economic Analysis and Assessment of Water Scarcity, Hydrologic-Economic Modeling
PhD-Student within the UFZ Integrated Project (IP) Water Scarcity:
- Modeling of economic costs and damages in the agricultural sector: Coupling of spatio-temporally distributed output units of the mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM; Samaniego, Kumar & Attinger, 2010) with various crop yields using econometric methods.
- The coupling serves as basis for socio-economic analysis and assessment of soil moisture as production factor in the agricultural sector.
- This project is a mutual and interdisciplinary approach of the Departments Economics and CHS
Short CV
Work Experience
05/2012 – 01/2013
Research Assistant, Institute for Environmental Science, University of Koblenz – Landau, Landau
02/2012 – 04/2012
Internship, Department Geo Risks Research/Corporate Climate Centre, MunichRe
08/2007 – 05/2009
& 07/2011 - 02/2012
Student Research Assistant, Research Area Environmental
Education
Diploma in Economics, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Focus: Environmental Economics, Diploma thesis: “The valuation of storms using different measurement techniques – A comparison of the life satisfaction approach and hedonic pricing”
Exchange Student, Graduate School, University of Oregon, Focus: Environmental Studies and Econometrics
University of Mannheim
WS 2012/2013
- Tutorial: Sustainability and Development Economics
- Seminar: Socio-economic Aspects of Sustainability
- Tutorial: Economic Valuation, Cost-Benefit and Risk Analysis
- Seminar: Special Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics
SS 2012
- Seminar: Ecological Economics
- Tutorial: Models in Environmental and Ecological Economics
- Seminar: Principals in Environmental Policy
- Seminar: Environmental Management 1
Publications
Peichl, M., Thober, S., Meyer, V., and Samaniego, L.: The effect of soil moisture anomalies on maize yield in Germany, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 889-906, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-889-2018, 2018.
Presentations
Peichl, M. (2018): Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Crop Yield. Economics Research Colloquium, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Peichl, M., Thober, S., Schwarze, R., Meyer, V., Samaniego, L., (2016): Soil Moisture Anomaly as Predictor of Crop Yield Deviation in Germany. European Geoscienses Union General Assembly (EGU) Vienna, Austria.
Peichl, M., Thober, S., Meyer, V., Samaniego, L., (2017): The Effect of Soil Moisture Anomalies on Maize Yield in Germany, Econometric Models of Climate Change at Nuffieleld College, University of Oxford, UK.
Peichl, M., Meyer, V., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Schwarze, R, (2015): Soil Moisture Anomaly as Predictor of Crop Yield Deviation in Germany. Higrade-Conference, UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
Peichl, M., Meyer, V., Thober, S., Samaniego, L. (2015): Soil Moisture as an Estimator of Crop Yield in Germany. European Geoscienses Union General Assembly (EGU) Vienna, Austria.
Peichl, M. (2013): The Economic Assessment of Water Scarcity - Direct costs in the agricultural sector of Germany. REKLIM Workshop 2014, Bad Salzschlirff, Germany.