Stichting Wageningen Research (WR)

Location: Wageningen/The Hague, The Netherlands

Role in the project:

WR coordinates the BrightSpace project consortium. WR leads WP1 that defines a SJOS conceptual framework for the identification of drivers and indicators. WR leads WP7 Just space model upgrade and indicators. Just like all other partners in the consortium, WR contributes to project communication, results dissemination and exploitation in WP11. WR leads WP12 Management and Coordination that entails project governance, coordination and strategic decision making, administrative and financial project management, data management and quality control, as well as managing linkages and collaboration with related projects.

Description:

The mission of Wageningen University & Research is “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”. Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment. With its roughly 30 branches, 7,200 employees (6,400 fte) and 13,200 students and over 150,000 participants to WUR’s Life Long Learning, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. The unique Wageningen approach lies in its integrated approach to issues and the collaboration between different disciplines.

Wageningen Economic Research is an internationally leading socio-economic research institute that offers governments and companies (socio)economic insights and integral advice for sound policies and better decision-making in an innovative way.

BrightSpace project information on the partner’s website in English or in national language:

Members

Dr. Marc Müller

Position: .

Role in the project:
Project Coordinator

Background:

Marc Müller holds a doctoral degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Bonn, Germany, for his thesis on a general equilibrium analysis of the cotton sector in Uzbekistan. Since then, he has developed databases and simulation models for agricultural economic analyses in a variety of regional and organizational contexts, including climate-change related research projects in West Africa and database compilations for the European Commission. He worked at the FAO in Rome between 2015 and 2019, where he carried out long-term projections for food-demand and -supply at global scale until 2050. His main expertise is in linking bio-physical and agro-economic models and the consolidation of heterogeneous datasets. In September 2019, Marc Müller started working at Wageningen Economic Research as Microeconomist and Model Developer. He works on the development of farm-level models for analyses of the EU’s common agricultural policies under changing environmental conditions.