Felicitas Beier

Doctoral Researcher
Beier

Felicitas Beier works on the implementation of spatially-explicit irrigation potentials in the land-use modeling framework (MAgPIE model) and the interplay of multiple cropping and irrigation. 

Further research interests are food system transformation, land-based mitigation and their environmental impacts.

Department

Working Group

Contact

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
felicitas.beier[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam

ORCID

Felicitas Beier studied...

  • International Economics (B.Sc.) at Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario (Canada) and
  • International Economics (M.A.) at Georg-August University in Göttingen and Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

She worked (internships) at:

  • CESifo Institute, Munich
  • Deutsche Bundesbank (German Central Bank), Frankfurt am Main

  • MAgPIE model development (git@github.com:magpiemodel/magpie.git)
  • Development of algorithm to determine spatially explicit irrigation potentials for land-use models (https://github.com/pik-piam/mrwater)
  • Global irrigation patterns
  • Multiple cropping in land-use modeling
  • Resource Economics
  • Water Scarcity and Water Economics
  • Representation of planetary boundaries in land-use modeling

Beier, Felicitas, Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon, Heinke, Jens, Karstens, Kristine, Dietrich, Jan Philipp, Müller, Christoph, Stenzel, Fabian, von Jeetze, Patrick José, Popp, Alexander, Lotze-Campen, HermannTechnical and Economic Irrigation Potentials within land and water boundaries - Water Resources Research https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031924

Wang, Mengru, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Rhodé Rijneveld, Felicitas Beier, Mirjam P. Bak, Masooma Batool, Bram Droppers, Alexander Popp, Michelle T. H. Van Vliet, and Maryna Strokal. 2024. ‘A Triple Increase in Global River Basins with Water Scarcity Due to Future Pollution’. Nature Communications 15 (1): 880. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44947-3.
Mishra, Abhijeet, Florian Humpenöder, Christopher P O Reyer, Felicitas Beier, Hermann Lotze-Campen, and Alexander Popp. 2024. ‘Emission Savings through the COP26 Declaration of Deforestation Could Come at the Expense of Non-Forest Land Conversion’. Environmental Research Letters 19 (5): 054058. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad42b4.
Singh, Vartika, Miodrag Stevanović, Chandan Kumar Jha, Felicitas Beier, Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, Hermann Lotze-Campen, and Alexander Popp. 2023. ‘Assessing Policy Options for Sustainable Water Use in India’s Cereal Production System’. Environmental Research Letters 18 (9): 094073. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acf9b6.
Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon, David Meng-Chuen Chen, Isabelle Weindl, Bjoern Soergel, Felicitas Beier, Edna J. Molina Bacca, Franziska Gaupp, Alexander Popp, and Hermann Lotze-Campen. 2022. ‘Integrating Degrowth and Efficiency Perspectives Enables an Emission-Neutral Food System by 2100’. Nature Food 3 (5): 341–48. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00500-3.
Mishra, Abhijeet, Florian Humpenöder, Galina Churkina, Christopher P. O. Reyer, Felicitas Beier, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Hermann Lotze-Campen, and Alexander Popp. 2022. ‘Land Use Change and Carbon Emissions of a Transformation to Timber Cities’. Nature Communications 13 (1): 4889. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32244-w.
Doelman, Jonathan C, Felicitas D Beier, Elke Stehfest, Benjamin L Bodirsky, Arthur H W Beusen, Florian Humpenöder, Abhijeet Mishra, et al. 2022. ‘Quantifying Synergies and Trade-Offs in the Global Water-Land-Food-Climate Nexus Using a Multi-Model Scenario Approach’. Environmental Research Letters 17 (4): 045004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5766.
Soergel, Bjoern, Elmar Kriegler, Isabelle Weindl, Sebastian Rauner, Alois Dirnaichner, Constantin Ruhe, Matthias Hofmann, Nico Bauer, Christoph Bertram, Benjamin L. Bodirsky, Marian Leimbach, Julia Leininger, Antoine Levesque, Gunnar Luderer, Michaja Pehl, Christoph Wingens, Lavinia Baumstark, Felicitas Beier, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Florian Humpenöder, Patrick von Jeetze, David Klein, Johannes Koch, Robert Pietzcker, Jessica Strefler, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Alexander Popp. 2021. ‘A Sustainable Development Pathway for Climate Action within the UN 2030 Agenda’. Nature Climate Change 11 (8): 656–64. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01098-3.
Dietrich, Jan Philipp, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Florian Humpenöder, Isabelle Weindl, Miodrag Stevanović, Kristine Karstens, Ulrich Kreidenweis, Xiaoxi Wang, Abhijeet Mishra, David Klein, Geanderson Ambrósio, Ewerton Araujo, Amsalu Woldie Yalew, Lavinia Baumstark, Stephen Wirth, Anastasis Giannousakis, Felicitas Beier, David Meng-Cuen Cen, Hermann Lotze-Capen, Alexander Popp. 2019. ‘MAgPIE 4 – a Modular Open-Source Framework for Modeling Global Land Systems’. Geoscientific Model Development 12 (4): 1299–1317. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1299-2019.

Teaching assistant positions:

  • 10/2015-04/2016: 

    Teaching assistant at the Chair of Macroeconomics and Development (Prof. Dr. Strulik), Göttingen

  • 04/2016-08/2016: 

    Teaching assistant at the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics (Prof. Dr. Herwartz), Göttingen

  • Humboldt University(HU), Berlin (PhD student in Agricultural Economics)

  • 01/2019-12/2021: DBU (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt) PhD scholarship
  • 10/2016-01/2017: DAAD Exchange Student Scholarship
  • 10/2015-09/2016: Deutschlandstipendium Student Scholarship
  • 05/2011: School Award in Economics at JMF Secondary School for paper on "The effects of the German economic stimulus packages"