Anna Massfeller
Data Science in Agricultural Economics Group
About me
I am a Doctoral Student in Agricultural Economics with a passion for behavioral economics. I am interested in the various factors that influence farmers decision making. By exploring these factors empirically I want to contribute to the development of environmental beneficially and farmer friendly policies.
Anna Massfeller
2.008
Meckenheimer Allee 174
53115 Bonn
Curriculum Vitae
10/2018–11/2020: Master in Agricultural and Food Economics (Minor specifications in Resource and Environmental Economics and Agricultural and Development Policy), University of Bonn
Thesis: Farmers´ acceptance of result-based agri-environmental schemes - a case study with arable farmers in North Rhine-Westphalia
10/2014–04/2018: Bachelor in Agricultural Science (specialisation in Agricultural and Food Economics), University of Bonn
Thesis: Determinants for the conversion to organic farming of dairy farms in North Rhine-Westphalia
since 12/2020: Doctoral student, Cluster of Excellence "PhenoRob - Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production", University of Bonn, Germany
since 10/2018: Research Assistant – EuroCARE "European Centre for Agricultural, Regional and Environmental Policy Research", Bonn , Germany
02/2020-05/2020 &10/2020 - 11/2020: Student Assistant, Chair of Production Economics, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn, Germany
09/2018: Student Assistant - Deutscher Verband Tiernahrung (DVT), Bonn, Preparation and Support for the annual conference in Berlin
Massfeller, A.; Hermann, D., Storm, H. (2024): Algorithm Aversion in Farmers’ Intention to Use Decision Support Tools in Crop Management, Presentation, REECAP 6th annual conference, September 25th , 2024, Còrdoba
Massfeller, A.; Zingsheim, M., Ahmadi, A.; Storm, H. (2024): Harnessing the potential of weeding robots for the optimal design of payments for biodiversity conservation in arable farming, Presentation, LANDSCAPE Conference, September 19th 2024, Berlin
Massfeller, A.; Zingsheim, M., Ahmadi, A.; Storm, H. (2024): Optimal design of payments for ecosystem services in the era of weeding robots, Presentation, European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB), 18th June, Bologna
Massfeller, A.; Hermann, D., Storm, H. (2024): Algorithm Aversion in Farmers’ Intention to Use Decision Support Tools in Crop Management, Presentation, 10th EAAE PhD Workshop, 4th June 2024, Budapest
Massfeller, Anna, Storm, Hugo (2023): "Peer Effects in Farmers’ Decision to Use Mechanical Weeding in Sugar Beets". Presentation of the machine learning methodology applied in the paper Session on machine learning. EAAE Congress 2023, Aug 29-Sep 1.
Massfeller, Anna, Storm, Hugo (2023): "Socio-spatial information sources influencing farmers’ decision to use mechanical weeding in sugar beets". Working aper presentation at the Ruralis Lunch seminar, Trondheim, Norway, 2023, March 9.
Massfeller, Anna, Zingsheim, Marie, Storm, Hugo (2023): "How to exploit the full potential of selective weeding robots to benefit biodiversity" Paper presentation at EAAE Congress 2023, Aug 29-Sep 1.
Martinsson, Elin, Massfeller, Anna. (2022). What can current agricultural technology tell us about the future? DIGICROP online conference. Phenorob Cluster of Excellence.
Massfeller, Anna, Storm, Hugo (2022): "How to exploit the full potential of weeding robots", Working progress presentation ILR PhD seminar. January 27, 2022.
Massfeller, Anna ,Meraner, M., Hüttel, S., Uehleke, R. (2022): "Farmers’ acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes: A German perspective", Paper presentation, PhD Lunch Talk, University of Montpellier, France, 07 July, 2022
Massfeller, Anna, Storm, Hugo (2022): "Peer effects in farmers’ decision to use mechanical weeding in sugar beets", Working paper presentation, EAAE PhD Workshop, Parma, Italy, 24 June 2022
Massfeller, Anna, Storm, Hugo (2022): "Socio-spatial information sources influencing farmers’ decision to use mechanical weeding in sugar beets", Working paper presentation, AES conference in Leuven, Belgium. 2022.
Massfeller, Anna, Storm Hugo (2021), "How to exploit the full potential of weeding robots?" Poster presentation. Joint doctoral workshop on “Digital technologies for sustainable crop production” with ETH Zürich. 23rd August 2021.
Massfeller, Anna, Storm, Hugo (2021), "Socio-spatial information sources influencing farmers’ decision to use mechanical weeding in sugar beets", Presentation of the work in progress, ILR PhD seminar. June 25 2021.
Massfeller, A.; Meraner, M.; Hüttel, S.; Uehleke, R. (2021) "Farmers’ acceptance of result-based agri-environmental schemes – evidence from North Rhine-Westphalia"@AnnaMassfeller
2024-2025: Scientific Staff Representative Institute Board
2022-2024: PhD Representative Institute Board
Since 2022: Representative of scientific staff in the Examination Committee, Faculty of Agriculture
Awards
2024 REECAP Early Career Researcher Award
for the presentation of "Algorithm Aversion in Farmers’ Intention to Use Decision Support Tools in Crop Management", REECAP 6th annual conference, September 25th , 2024
Theodor Brinkmann Award for Young Scientists 2020
for the concept of my Masterthesis “Farmers’ acceptance of result-based agri-environmental schemes – a case study with arable farmers in North Rhine-Westphalia”
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Massfeller, A., Storm, H., 2024. Field observation and verbal exchange as different peer effects in farmers’ technology adoption decisions. Agric. Econ. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12847
Massfeller, A., Meraner, M., Hüttel, S., Uehleke, R., 2022. Farmers’ acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes: A German perspective. Land use policy 120, 106281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106281
Massfeller, A., Meraner, M., Hüttel, S., Uehleke, R., 2022. Data on farmers’ acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes. Data in Brief 45, 108642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108642
Knowledge Transfer
Massfeller, A., Storm, H., 2024. Wie treffen Landwirte ihre unternehmerischen Entscheidungen? LZ Rheinland 39/2024, S.29-32
Massfeller, A., Storm, H., 2024. Unkrautmanagement – Wie treffen Landwirte ihre Entscheidungen? Zuckerrübe 5/2024, S.44-46
Massfeller, A., Storm, H., 2024. Unkrautmanagement in Zuckerrüben. Die Zuckerrübenzeitung 4/2024, S.34-35