Dr. Lea Sophia Schröder
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Research interests
Inter- and transdisciplinary research on adaptation of diverse agricultural systems under
climate change, i.e.:
- Climate change impacts on crop yields and environmental outcomes of
agricultural production - Constraints and trade-offs in agricultural adaptation
- Rural land use futures
- Land use change at forest-agriculture frontiers
- Smallholder cultivation systems in the (sub-)tropics
Affiliations
- Project "Klimaschutz im Erwerbsobstbau durch modellgestützte Bilanzierung und intelligente Reduktion von THG-Emissionen auf dem digitalen Zukunftsbetrieb" (KERMIT): Postdoctoral researcher (since 2025)
- Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climatic Change, and Society" (CLICCS), Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg: Doctoral candidate (2020-2024) and postdoctoral researcher (since 2024) in the CLICCS-C2 project
- School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS), Universität Hamburg: Doctoral candidate (2020-2024)
- Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Risks, Universität Hamburg (since 2020)
Education
Dr. rer. nat. in Earth System Sciences (2024)
Department of Earth System Sciences, Universität Hamburg, Germany. Thesis title: Sustainable agricultural adaptation under climate change: Insights from Northeast India and the Brazilian Amazon. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneider, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran
M. Sc. in Environmental Sciences (2019)
Universität zu Köln, Germany. Specialization: Hydrogeography, GIS. Thesis title: Analysis of temporal and spatial patterns of SMAP soil moisture data in Southwest India. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Karl Schneider, Dr. Wolfgang Korres
B. Sc. in Geography (2015)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. Thesis title: Land Grabbing und Ernährungssicherheit - Eine diskursgestützte Analyse und Bewertung. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wilfried Hoppe, StR Volker Conrad
Conferences
2024
- Global Land Programme (GLP) 5th Open Science Meeting, Oaxaca (11/2024): Sustainability risks and potentials of shifting cultivation under climate change: Insights from Northeast India (oral presentation)
- 5th Global Food Security Conference, Leuven (04/2024): “Exploring plausible farming futures in agricultural frontiers: Producers’ perspectives on cropland expansion, intensification, and integration in the Brazilian Amazon” (oral presentation)
2023
- World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Open Science Conference, Kigali (10/2023): “Climate change impacts on land degradation and food security in shifting cultivation systems in mountainous terrain” (poster presentation)
- Tropentag, Berlin (09/2023): “Uphill shifting cultivation under pressure: Perspectives and adaptation of tribal farmers in northeast India” (oral presentation)
- EGU General Assembly, Vienna (04/2023): “Future soil erosion of shifting cultivation on hillslopes - modeling interactions between slope steepness, fallow periods, and climate change” (poster presentation)