CatherineĀ Pfeifer
Group Leader at Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
Frick, Aargau, Switzerland
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Top SchoolCatherine Pfeifer is a group leader and senior scientist at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) with a decade of experience applying spatial economic and environmental modeling to land-use change, landscape functions, and rural development. Trained with a PhD in agricultural economics from Wageningen, she blends spatial econometrics and participatory, computer-assisted multi-stakeholder processes to translate complex landscape science into practical policy and development guidance. Her career spans applied research and field-facing GIS roles in Ethiopia with ILRI and IWMI, giving her deep expertise in agroecological contexts and international development. Known for bridging quantitative modeling with stakeholder engagement, she routinely designs decision-focused spatial analyses that inform sustainable land management. Based in Frick, Switzerland, she brings a rare combination of rigorous academic grounding and hands-on implementation in both research institutes and on-the-ground projects.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
master, economics, master, economics at HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of LausannePhD, Agricultural economics, land dynamics, PhD, Agricultural economics, land dynamics at Wageningen University & Research
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Github Skills (9)
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Github contributions (5)
ilri/CLEANED-R
Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
This is the code of the CLEANED tool for Bama, Burkina Faso, developped under SAIRLA program as a collaboration between ILRI and SEI.
Contributions:55 commits, 2 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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pfeiferc/datasciencecoursera
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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