Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Ressourcenökonomie

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture
Department of Agricultural Economics
Division of Resource Economics
mail: Unter den Linden 6

D-10099 Berlin Germany

office: 1.10, Haus 12, Phillipstr. 13

Phone

+49-30-2093-6068

Fax

+49-30-2093-6497

Email

a.thiel (at) staff.hu-berlin.de

Current research: “An institutional perspective on re-scaling of resource governance: the cases of water and marine governance in the European Union” (“Habilitation” - Working Title)

Conceptual background: With a background in Institutional, Environmental, Resource, Infrastructure and General Economics and European Policy Analysis and good knowledge of Political Theory, my research interests are the “Social Sciences of Natural Resources and the Environment” with a specific focus on the role of institutions and economics for understanding social-ecological systems.

Empirical background: Previous substantive work focused a) on Europeanization and water use and coastal development (the nexus of water, tourism, agricultural and landscape development) and transboundary water sharing, specifically in South-Western Europe, and b) on European governance and Impact Assessment procedures of the European Union.

Since 12/07

Humboldt University of Berlin, Division of Resource Economics

Dept. for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences

Assistant Professor (wissenschaftlicher Assistent)

Teaching at graduate and postgraduate level, Supervision of M.Sc. dissertations and theses,

Research and Acquisition of Research Project, Organisation of the Division

01/2007 – 11/2007

Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (Seville)

Research Fellow

Action: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

Area of work: “Institutions and Governance in Rural Development” - Research Fellow

Topics: “Institutional Analysis of Soil Governance”; “Forecasting of European Rural Development trends”; “European Landscape Governance”

03/2005 – 12/2006

Humboldt University of Berlin, Division of Resource Economics

Dept. for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences

- Research and Teaching Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

- Work package leader: “Institutional Analysis” of European Integrated Research Project “SENSOR” aimed at the development of a computer-based quantitative modelling tool assessing the impacts of policies on multifunctionality

- Teaching at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level

Ph.D.

Oxford Brookes University – United Kingdom

Ph.D.: “Environmental Policy Integration and the development of water use in the Algarve, since Portugal’s accession to the EU”

Scholarship from Oxford Brookes University and “Economic & Social Research Council”, UK

M.Sc.

Oxford Brookes University – UK

M. Sc. European Environmental and Spatial Planning

Distinction; “Barton Willmore Price” – best dissertation in 2000

Dissertation/“Diplomarbeit“ in collaboration with TU Berlin;

Topic: “Potential of economic instruments for the co-ordination of transboundary water use in the EU – the case of water sharing on the Iberian Peninsula”

Diplom Volkswirt

(M.Sc.)

Technische Universität Berlin – Germany

“Diplom Volkswirt” (= M. Sc. Economics), dissertation mark 1,0 – final overall mark 1,8

Specialisations: environmental economics, infrastructure policy and transportation markets, public finance, sectoral planning

Vordiplom

(B.Sc.)

Technische Universität Berlin – Germany

Town and Regional Planning

“Vordiplom” (= B.Sc.) final mark “good”

International Education

Universidad Complutense de Madrid – Spain

Participation in the Erasmus programme as part of my studies of Economics

“Institutional Economics and European Policy Analysis”, “Environmental and Resource Economics” at graduate level;

“Theory, methods and empirical analysis of Institutions and Organisations” at postdoctoral level

Supervision of Master dissertations and theses

2009

Ph.D. workshop on “Theory, Analysis and Empirical Study of Institutions and Organisations – part 1 – Frameworks and Theories”, October, 5.–9. Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

09/2009

Workshop on “Institutional Analysis of Natural Resource Problems”, September, 7.-11., National Academy of Sciences, Kiew, Ukraine, funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

11/2008

Workshop „Institutional Analysis Workshop - Applying Theories and Practicing Methodologies“, part of workshop series: Modern Agriculture in Central Europe (MACE), November, 3.-7., Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia, funded by the European Commission

2008

Ph.D. workshop on “Theory, Analysis and Empirical Study of Institutions and Organisations – part 2 – Methodologies and Approach”, July, 7.–11. Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

11/2008

Workshop „Institutional Analysis Workshop - Applying Theories and Practicing Methodologies“, part of workshop series: Modern Agriculture in Central Europe (MACE), November, 3.-7., Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia, funded by the European Commission

2007 – 2009

Institutional Economics and Political Economy I

Contents: Introduction to Institutional Economics, Property Rights Theory, Transaction Costs Economics, Principal Agent Theory, Game Theory, Fiscal Federalism, Polycentric Governance, European Policy Analysis, the Functioning of the EU and the Common Agricultural Policy. Graduate level module, Winter term, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2006

Ph.D. workshop on “Theory, Analysis and Empirical Study of Institutions and Organisations”, September, 4.– 8., Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2006 & 2008 – 2009

Environmental and Resource Economics III - Environmental Institutions and Organisations

Contents: Introduction to Institutional Ecological Economics; Social Ecological Systems; Property Rights Theory; Transaction Costs Economics and the Environment; Adaptive Cycle; Analytic Narratives; Resilience Theory; Institutional Analysis and Development Framework; Institutions of Sustainability Framework; Fit, Scale and Interplay. Graduate level module, Winter term, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2004-2005

Ph.D. module involvement, qualitative research methods Master module involvement: European environmental policy Oxford Brookes University, UK

2005

Involvement in graduate teaching on Environmental Policy Study Cardiff University, UK

09/2003 – 09/2004

Oxford Brookes University UK Course on teaching in Higher Education leading to “Certificate for Associate Teachers in Higher Education” Teaching at graduate level on Resource methods Teaching at postgraduate level on European environmental policy

03/2002 – 08/2002

Solidarité – European Commission, Brussels – Belgium

Initiator and representative of the co-operation of European Commission trainees and the Brussels-based NGO “Convivial”, working on the integration of asylum seekers

Actitivities: Launch the initiative, fundraising, organisation of exchanges between trainees, officials and asylum seekers

04/2002

University of Oxford, School of Geography – UK

Rapporteur at the workshop of EU – Research Project PRINWASS” – Private Involvement in Water Supply and Sanitation

04/2001

University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for Water – UK

Seminar: “Economic instruments in the co-ordination of transnational water use”

03/2002 - 08/2002

European Commission – Brussels, Belgium

Directorate General for the Environment

Traineeship in the units:

“Water, Sea, and Soil”, “Inter-institutional affairs”, “Integration Industry”

08/1999 – 09/1999

CESUR - Centro de Estudos de Sistemas Urbanos e Regionais - Lisbon, Portugal

Scholarship as part of the Leonardo programme of the EU

Topic: “Comparison of transportation planning instruments in Germany and Portugal”

05/1999 – 06/1999

F. A. V. - Forschungs- und Anwendungsverbund Berlin e.V.

Project: “Private Long distance transport infrastructure financing in Germany”

Oxford Brookes University M.Sc. Distinction & “Barton Willmore Price” – best dissertation in 2000

Visiting Researcher at School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University

Invited Teacher and Researcher at the Department of Geography, University of Seville

Fundación Nueva Cultura del Água