Prof. Dr. Franziska Schünemann

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Franziska Schuenemann is head of the Chair of Bioeconomy at the Institute of Economics at the University of Hohenheim since April 2020. After studying economics in Mannheim, Bergen (Norway), Göttingen and Groningen (the Netherlands), she obtained her PhD in Agricultural Economics in 2017 at the University of Hohenheim in Germany with a dissertation on "Economy-Wide Policy Modeling of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in Malawi". While writing her thesis, she was also a collaborator at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC. From 2016-2020 she was a research associate at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in the research area Environment and Natural Resources (today: Research Center Global Commons and Climate Policy). In her current research, she analyzes the transformation towards a sustainable bioeconomy including the impact of agricultural, energy and climate policies at the global and (developing) country level using computable general equilibrium (CGE) models in combination with biophysical models to simultaneously capture economic, social and environmental policy impacts.