Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Dr. Maria Gerullis

Research interests/ Forschungsschwerpunkte


  • Governance of Social-ecological Systems
  • Economics of Crop Breeding / Crop Genetic Resources
  • Digital Innovations in Agriculture
  • Climate-Change-Sustainability-Seed-nexus

    • Research Projects/ Forschungsprojekt

    • Future Laboratory Agriculture (ZLA). University of Göttingen subproject: analysis of the effects of digitization on the sustainability of agricultural processes Lower Saxony's agriculture.
    • Technology choice and genetic pools in Plant Breeding (Technopool)

      • Academic Career/ Akademischer Werdegang


      Since 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Agriculture and
      Food Business Management Group, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen
      October 2022 – Sept 2023 Post-doctoral Researcher at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
      March 2022 - April 2022 Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College - Ecology Environment Evolution and Society
      February 2022 Visiting Scholar at University of Kentucky
      November 2018 – Sept 2022 Researcher and Doctorate (Dr. agr.) at the Chair for Economic and Agricultural Policy, University of Bonn
      January 2018 - September 2018 Researcher and Coordinator at Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture
      September 2015 - December 2017 Researcher at the Chair for Agricultural Production and Resource Economics, Technical University of Munich

      Academic Education/ Akademischer Bildungsweg


      January 2019 - December 2022 Doctoral Thesis in Agricultural Economics, University of Bonn
      March 2022 - April 2022 Visiting Scholar at the Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society Program, Dartmouth College
      October 2012 - August 2015 M.Sc. in Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Bonn
      August 2010 - May 2011 Year abroad - courses in masters program in economics, Central Michigan University
      October 2008 - August 2012 B.A. in International Business Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

      Publications and Conferences/ Publikationen und Vorträge


      2024:
      Bacud, E. S. T., Gerullis, M. K., Puskur, R., Heckelei, T. Looking at gender is not enough—How diversity of farmers’ marginalization relates to varietal trait preferences. Food Policy 124, April 2024, 102616. Link
      2023:
      M., Pieruschka, R., Fahrner, S., Hartl, L., Schurr, U., & Heckelei, T. From genes to policy: Mission-oriented governance of plant-breeding research and technologies. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, 1235175. Link
      Gerullis, M. K., & Schulz, W. (2023). Robustness of Plant Breeding Systems under Automated Phenotyping. Smart Agricultural Technology, 100225. Link
      Unnikrishnan, H., Gerullis, M., Cox, M., & Nagendra, H. (2023). Unpacking dynamics of diverse nested resource systems through a diagnostic approach. Sustainability Science, 1-28. Link
      Kusunose, Y., Rossi, J. J., Van Sanford, D. A., Alderman, P. D., Anderson, J. A., Chai, Y., Gerullis, M. ... & Wright, B. D. (2023). Sustaining productivity gains in the face of climate change: A research agenda for US wheat. Global Change Biology, 29(4), 926-934. Link
      2021:
      Gerullis, M., Heckelei, T., & Rasch, S. (2021). Toward understanding the governance of varietal and genetic diversity. Ecology and Society, 26(2). Link
      Shang, L., Heckelei, T., Gerullis, M. K., Börner, J., & Rasch, S. (2021). Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies-integrating farm-level evidence and system interaction. Agricultural systems, 190, 103074. Link

      Gerullis, M. (2016). Entstehung privater Eigentumsrechte an Weiterentwicklungen von Weizensaat in
      den USA und Germany. In: Biopatente (pp. 235-260). Nomos Verlag.


      Gerullis, M. Seed as Commons. Virtual Keynote presented for World Commons Week organized by International Association of the Study of the Commons titled Commons Futures delivered on 8th October 2020, Virtual.
      Gerullis, M. The governance of plant breeding – a social-ecological systems perspective. Invited talk at the Crop Trust Impact Fellow Bootcamp, August 19th 2020, Virtual.