Mansi Nagpal

Mansi Nagpal is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Economics within the Research Unit Environment and Society at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig, Germany. She is part of the Graduate School AGRI-TRANSFORM since 2020 and contributes to projects focused on climate change adaptation in agriculture.

• Education:
  • M.Sc. in Sustainability Management (2017-2020), University of Leipzig
  • M.A. in Agribusiness Economics (2013-2015), Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, India
  • B.A. in Economics (2009-2012), University of Delhi

Research interests include climate change adaptation and mitigation, agricultural economics, sustainable development, and agent-based modeling. She specializes in analyzing drought impacts on agriculture, irrigation demand under climate change, and economic responses to extreme weather events.

Recent publications focus on hydro-economic modeling of drought resilience, crop adaptation to climate variability, and stakeholder perceptions of sustainable agriculture in Germany. Her work employs computational models to project future water demand and assess biophysical-economic impacts of droughts.

Projects include her doctoral research on Future drought impacts on German agriculture, participation in the FUSE: Food-Water-Energy for Sustainable Urban Environments project, and contributions to stakeholder-driven sustainability assessments in the Thirsty Cities PhD college.