Judith Rüschhoff

Judith Rüschhoff is a Research Associate at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Halle (Saale), Germany, within the Department of Soil Systems Research. She specializes in developing decision support tools for sustainable agriculture and soil management. Her current work focuses on the BODIUM4Farmers project, which creates a farmers’ version of the BODIUM model for long-term agricultural management planning. She holds an M.Sc. in Geoecology from Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen and a B.Sc. in Biology.

Research Focus:

• Development of the BODIUM4Farmers application
• Co-design workshops with farmers
• Analysis of regional agricultural self-sufficiency
• Sustainability of solidarity agriculture

Projects & Grants:

• 2022–2025: BonaRes Centre (BMBF-funded) for BODIUM4Farmers development
• 2020–2021: UFZ Leipzig study on solidarity agriculture’s food utilization

Affiliations:

• Member of the Soil System Research team at UFZ
• Contributor to the 'Sustainable Land Use for the Future' integration platform