Dr. Johannes
Ziesmer.

Agricultural economics
& computational modelling

Curriculum vitae

Johannes Ziesmer

Dr. sc. agr. · Agricultural economics & computer science

johannes@ziesmer.de
ORCID: 0000-0001-5950-4199

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Academic appointments

Since 2024

Substitute Professor

Chair of Agricultural Policy, Kiel University

Since 2020

Postdoctoral Researcher

Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg

Software modules and data infrastructure for computer-based competency assessment.
2015–2020

Researcher and PhD student

Department of Agricultural Economics, Kiel University

Computational political economy, Bayesian estimation, metamodels, and social network analysis.
2006–2015

Junior Researcher

Department of Agricultural Economics, Kiel University

Agent-based modelling, belief formation in networks, and simulation frameworks.

Education

June 2019

Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (Dr. sc. agr.)

Kiel University

Dissertation: Computational Modeling and Analytical Tools in Applied Policy Modeling.
2009–2015

MSc Computer Science

Kiel University

2005–2009

BSc Computer Science

Kiel University

Project experience

Ongoing

Domestication of the Kampala CAADP Declaration

AKADEMIYA2063

Ongoing

Computer-based competency assessment

Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories

Development and management of software modules.
2021–2024

Political economy analysis and modelling on food-system transformation in Uganda and Indonesia

FAO

Project Manager Computational Framework.
2020

Applying computational modelling tools in transdisciplinary policy analysis at country level

FAO · Ghana

Project Manager Computational Framework.
2017–2020

Bioeconomy as societal change (MOD_GW_NW)

BMBF

Project Manager Computational Modeling; DART, CAPRI, and CGE models; metamodels and model uncertainty.
2015–2020

Third Ways of Feeding the World

Villigst / BMBF

Mentoring doctoral students working with policy-process and equilibrium models.
2015–2018

AniFair

BMEL

Technical infrastructure for collecting network surveys.
2012–2015

Promoting Participatory and Evidence-Based Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa (PEBAP)

BMZ

Development of the CGPE approach; Bayesian estimation and social network analysis.
2010–2015

Food Chain Plus

BMBF

Technical infrastructure for collecting network surveys.
2006–2009

Advanced-Eval

European Union

ABM-CGE development, simulation frameworks, rural-development evaluation, and survey infrastructure.

Academic service

Peer review

Journal manuscripts

Economic Systems Research; European Review of Agricultural Economics; Computational Economics; Cogent Economics & Finance; Sustainable Production and Consumption.
Project review

Swiss National Science Foundation

Judging

ReSAKSS Data Challenge

Teaching & publications

See the teaching record and full publication and presentation list. Both are included in the downloadable CV.