Dr. Andrea Kaim

Andrea Kaim

Deputy Head of Department
Head of junior research group AgriScape
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Computational Landscape Ecology
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 6025 1796
Andrea Kaim



Research interests

  • (Spatial) Mathematical Optimization
  • Landscape ecology, especially ecosystem services, biodiversity and trade-offs
  • Agricultural sciences, particularly grassland management
  • Agent-based modelling
  • Spatial conservation planning
  • Environmental Economics

Media

Scientist portrait on YouTube

Podcast "Wie wird unsere Landwirtschaft vielfältiger" with detektor.fm (in German)

Podcast "Agrarwende und Modellierungen" with Scientists for Future (in German)


Projects

Logo AgriScape AgriScape - Trade-offs along pathways towards multifunctional agricultural landscapes AgriScape
Logo Susalps SUSALPS - Sustainable use of alpine and pre-alpine grassland soils in a changing climate SUSALPS
Logo Tale TALE - Towards multifunctional agricultural landscapes in Europe: Assessing and governing synergies between food production, biodiversity, and ecosystem services
TALE

Curriculum Vitae

since 2025 Deputy Head of Department, Department Computational Landscape Ecology
since 2024 Speaker of the Working Group "Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity" at UFZ (Link)
since 2023 Habilitation (work in progress), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of Natural Sciences III - Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Geosciences, and Computer Science, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Halle (Saale), Deutschland, Working title: Future perspectives of German agricultural landscapes - How modelling, optimization, and stakeholder integration can help minimizing conflicts of an agricultural transformation
since 2022 Head of Junior Research Group, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department Computational Landscape Ecology, Leipzig, Germany, Project AgriScape
2019 - 2022 Research Associate, University of Bayreuth, Professorship of ecological services, Bayreuth, Germany, Project SUSALPS
2021 Guest Student, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
2015 - 2022 PhD Candidate, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department Computational Landscape Ecology, Leipzig, Germany, Title of thesis: Addressing land use allocation problems in German agricultural landscapes by combining multi-criteria optimization with stakeholder preferences
2015 - 2018 Research Associate, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department Computational Landscape Ecology, Leipzig, Germany, Project TALE
2014 - 2015 Student Research Assistant, Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy (former Center for Central and Eastern Europe - MOEZ), Department Sustainability Management and Infrastructure Economics, Leipzig, Germany.
2014 Student Research Assistant, Universität Leipzig, Institute for Infrastructure and Resources Management, Leipzig, Germany.
2013 - 2014 Occupational Trainee, The University of Queensland, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Brisbane, Australia.
2012 Studies in Mathematics and Economics (ERASMUS scholarship), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
2008 - 2015 Studies in Business Mathematics (German Diploma), Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

Publications

2025 (4)

2024 (1)

2022 (1)

2021 (1)

  • Schmitt, T. M., Martín-López, B., Kaim, A., Früh-Müller, A., Koellner, T. (2021): Ecosystem services from (pre-)Alpine grasslands: Matches and mismatches between citizens’ perceived suitability and farmers’ management considerations. Ecosystem Services vol. 49, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101284

2020 (2)

2019 (2)

2018 (2)

2017 (2)

Theses

Kaim, A. (2021) "Addressing land use allocation problems in German agricultural landscapes by combining multi-criteria optimization with stakeholder preferences". Dissertation, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

Kaim, A. (2015) “Conservation Prioritization Problems and their Shadow Prices”. Diploma thesis, Business Mathematics, Leipzig University, Germany.
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