Marlene Rimmert

Doctoral Researcher

Department Integrative Earth System Science
IMPRS

Main Focus

The main focus of Marlene's work is to identify and understand the fundamental mechanisms that drive different system trajectories of the food and land use system. Through this, she aims to contribute to the overarching question of how the food and land use system can evolve to prevent or reverse the overshoot of planetary boundaries and strengthen the Earth's resilience while ensuring worldwide food security and human health at the same time. Meanwhile, her research aims to explore and advance coevolutionary modeling as an approach to represent complex, large-scale human-Earth system dynamics.
Core Research Themes: Land Use Change and Regenerative Practices, Transformation of Collective Behaviors and Decisions

Curriculum Vitae

Professional positions

since 2025: Doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute of Geoanthropology in the Carl-Zeiss research group on co-evolutionary human-Earth system modeling
since 2025: Guest researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Earth Resilience Science Unit
2023 - 2025: Research Engineer at Climate Farmers, Berlin
2021 - 2022: Student assistant in the department of vulnerability assessment, risk management & adaptive planning, Institute for Environment and Human Security United Nations University, Bonn
2020 - 2022: Project assistant in the project “ParticipationCaseScout”, Development of a web-based analysis tool of participative decision-making processes, Leuphana University Lüneburg

Education

2024: Master of Science in Environmental systems and resource management at the Universtiy of Osnabrück
2020: Bachelor of Scienc in Environmental science at Leuphana University Lüneburg

Publications

Hagenlocher, M., Okamoto, S., Nagabhatla, N., Diedrich, S., Hassel, J., van der Heijden, S., Kreft, S., De Lombaerde, P., Nick, F., Oakes, R., Rackelmann, F., Rimmert, M., Sandholz, S., Sebesvari, Z., Shen, X., Skripka, T., Stojanovic, T., Szarzynski, J., van de Walle, B. & Werners, S. (2023). Building climate resilience: Lessons from the 2021 floods in Western Europe. UNU-EHS, UNU-CRIS & UNU-MERIT.

Hagenlocher, M., Banerjee, S., Bermudez-Zambrano, A. D., Cotti, D., Hassel, J., Masys, A. J., Prasetyo, Y. E., Rana, S., Rimmert, M., Roy, P., Schütze, S, Shekhar, H., Sodogas, V. A., Sparkes, E., Surtiari, A. G. K., Valdiviezo-Ajila, A. and Werners, S. (2022). Understanding and managing cascading and systemic risks: lessons from COVID-19. UNU-EHS & UNDRR.

Hagenlocher, M., Banerjee, S., Bermudez-Zambrano, A. D., Cotti, D., Hassel, J., Masys, A. J., Nawawi, Prasetyo, Y. E., Rana, S., Rimmert, M., Roy, P., Schütze, S, Shekhar, H., Sitati, A., Sodogas, V. A., Sparkes, E.,Surtiari, A. G. K., Valdiviezo-Ajila, A., Werners, S. and Kirsch-Wood, J. (2022). Rethinking risks in times of COVID-19. UNDRR & UNDRR.

Rimmert, M., Baudoin, L., Cotta, B., Kochskämper, E. & Newig, J. (2020). Participation in river basin planning under the Water Framework Directive – Has it benefitted good water status? Water Alternatives, 13(3), 484-512.

Summer schools and conferences

Social simulation conference 2025, 25 - 29 August 2025, Poster presentation: Modeling the interplay of food supply chains and farmers’ decision-making in the transition to regenerative agriculture in the World-Earth model InSEEDS
KIT Summer School on Land Use & Ecosystem Change, 30 July - 7 August
Climate Resilience Initiative – Flood Knowledge Summit 2022, 6 - 8 July 2022, Oral presentation: Understanding impacts and vulnerabilities in climatic extreme events: an impact web of the flood 2021 in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands
ECPR General Conference, 24 - 28 August 2020, Oral presentation: Participation in river basin planningunder the Water Framework Directive – Has it benefitted good water status?