Elin Martinsson

November 2020 – present Doctoral Researcher 
PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence, University of Bonn. Bonn, Germany
Affiliated to the Institute for Food and Resource Economics. My research largely focuses on assessing farm-level effects of novel technology and assessing efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis.

August 2020 – October 2020 Internship
Forum for Reforms (Fores),  Stockholm, Sweden
I gained valuable experience and insights into the work of a think tank.

October 2019 – December 2019 Project Employment
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
I worked part-time, parallel with my studies, at the Department of Economics to be in the project group for developing a new bachelor’s program at SLU.

January 2018 – April 2018 Project Employment
Swedish Society for Nature Conservation,  Stockholm, Sweden
I worked on a survey on the municipalities’ nature conservation efforts, a project that I started during my internship one semester earlier.

August 2017 – January 2018 Internship
Swedish Society of Nature Conservation, Stockholm, Sweden
I was familiarised with interaction between different stakeholders when designing policies and looking to affect the societal agenda. Researched information about the government’s work for the environment before the national election in 2018, laying the foundation for the society’s evaluation of the government.

2018 – 2020 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
Environmental Economics master program

2016 – 2018 Stockholm University, Stockholm
Politices bachelor’s program, specialisation in economics

Martinsson, Elin, Storm, H. (2023): A Conceptual Framework of Secondary Effects of Technology Adoption, Poster presentation 17th EAAE Congress, 30th August 2023, Rennes.

Martinsson, Elin, Hansson, H., Mittenzwei K., Storm, H., (2023): Evaluating environmental effects of adopting automatic milking systems On Norwegian dairy farms". Session on machine learning. 17th EAAE Congress, 31st August 2023, Rennes.

Martinsson, Elin, Storm, H. (2022): Paper presentation of the working paper "Evaluating environmental effects of adopting automatic milking systems On Norwegian dairy farms" at the AES conference in Leuven, Belgium. 2022.

Martinsson, Elin, Storm, H. (2022): Presentation of the working in progress on the paper "A Conceptual Framework of Secondary Effects of Technology Adoption" in the ILR PhD seminar. Nov 25 2022.

Martinsson, Elin, Massfeller, A. (2022). What can current agricultural technology tell us about the future? DIGICROP online conference. Phenorob Cluster of Excellence.
Video presentation available at: https://youtu.be/m5mcAvRlGpM

Martinsson, Elin (2021): A Conceptual Framework of Secondary Effects of Technology Adoption, Poster presentation. Joint doctoral workshop on “Digital technologies for sustainable crop production” with ETH Zürich. 23rd August 2021.

Martinsson, Elin (2021): Evaluating environmental effects of adopting automatic milking systems on Norwegian dairy farms, Presentation. ILR PhD seminar. 25th June 2021.

Invited Talks

• Seminar presentation on the work “A Conceptual Framework of Secondary Effects of Technology Adoption”. IFRO Lunch seminar, University of Copenhagen. Online. 12th May 2023.
• Interview in the video series “Faces of Phenorob”. 2022. Available at: https://youtu.be/jDqDKyQcGr8

January 2022 – January 2023 PhD Representative, Phenorob Cluster of Excellence
Bonn, Germany

September 2018 – January 2020 Board Member and Alumni Coordinator, Pareto Uppsala Economic Association, Uppsala, Sweden

Organized events and Workshops

• Planned and hosted a workshop for PhDs during the Phenorob project Retreat (Bonn, 2022).
• Led the organization of a getaway for all PhDs in Phenorob. Organized and hosted a workshop during the getaway (Limburg, 2022).
• Organized a reading club on causal identification together with a colleague (Bonn, 2021-2022)
• Organized a talk with Professor Helena Hansson for PhDs (Online, 2021).
• Organized an Alumni-event inviting alumni from the environmental economics master’s program together with the other board members (Uppsala, 2019).

Skills and experiences

• Computer skills: MS Office – Very good knowledge; R – Very good knowledge.
• Language Skills: Swedish – Native (C2), English – Fluent (C1), German – Intermediate knowledge (B1).
• Writing skills: I have participated in various courses on academic writing and communication and gained experience writing scientific papers and reports.
• Organizational skills and project management: From independently managing my PhD project while also having other responsibilities such as acting as PhD representative and managing student assistants.
• Leadership skills: I have demonstrated leadership skills by employing student assistants (one during 2021 and two during 2023) and by acting as a student representative in Phenorob 2022-23. I have also taken several soft-skill courses on how to become a better leader. I am eager to improve my leadership skills further and envisage myself in a position where I can use them in the future.