Department für Agrarökonomie und Rurale Entwicklung

Dr. Christoph Kubitza

Date/Place of birth
22.07.1989/Sandton, Südafrika


Current Position

  • 04/2015 - PhD-Student in the Collaborative Research Center 990: Ecological and socioeconomic functions of tropical lowland rainforest transformation systems (Sumatra, Indonesia) at Georg-August-University Göttingen

    • Current field of research
    Determinants of land use change of smallholder farmers, Impact of land use changes on household welfare among smallholder farmers


    Education

    • 04/2013 - 04/2015 M. A. in Development Economics at Georg-August-University
      Göttingen

      • 04/2011 - 04/2013 B. A. in International Economics and Development at Bayreuth University

        • 08/2012 - 01/2013 Exchange semester, Economics at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil

          • 10/2009 - 04/2011 Study of Economics and Portuguese Studies at Georg-August-University Göttingen

            • Professional Experience

            • 08/2014 - 10/2014 Field Research Supervisor in Uganda on behalf of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

              • 01/2014 ? 12/2014 Research assistant at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies/Institute for African Area Studies (GIGA)

                • 10/2013 - 03/2014 Tutor for Macroeconomics at Georg-August-University Göttingen

                  • 08/2013 - 10/2013 Internship/Research assistant at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Institute for African Area Studies (IAA)

                    • 08/2011 - 10/2011 Internship in microfinance at NaCSA in Sierra Leone

                      • Languages
                      German, English, Portuguese