Birgit Müller

Birgit Müller is a socio-environmental modeller with a main focus on land use, food security and adaptation to climate risk (e.g. by insurance). She is Professor for "Modelling human-environment systems" at the Brandenburg-University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg. At the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig she leads the research group POLISES on 'Policy instruments and socio-environmental systems under global change' with case studies on sustainable agriculture in Germany and on pastoral land use in Africa. She studied Economic Mathematics at the University of Leipzig (Germany) and holds a PhD in Applied System Science from the University of Osnabrück, Germany. From the methodological side she is very interested in including human behavior in a more appropriate way in dynamic (agent-based) models and in using simulation models to foster inter- and transdisciplinary communication.