Irina Heiß

Contact

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Computational Landscape Ecology

Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Tel.: +49 341 6025-1898

irina.heiss@ufz.de
ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4105-8056
Portrait Irina Heiß
(Image: Sebastian Wiedling/UFZ)

Research topics

 

  • exploring the potential to improve ecosystem services by agricultural management changes
  • using the Agricultural Production SIMulator (APSIM) model to assess the impact of agricultural management on biophysical processes and ecosystem services of agroecosystems
  • assessing the impact of agricultural management on multifunctionality of agroecosystems
  • Spatial analysis and GIS with R

  • Heiß, I., Katte, A.-S., Koop, S., Vogeler, I., 2026. Transparent and reproducible crop model calibration using exclusively public data: Improving phenology and yield predictions in APSIMx. Environmental Modelling & Software 202, 106968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2026.106968

  • Heiß, I., Stegmann, F., Wolf, M., Volk, M., Kaim, A., 2025. Supporting the spatial allocation of management practices to improve ecosystem services – An opportunity map approach for agricultural landscapes. Ecological Indicators 172, 113212. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113212

Curriculum vitae

since 2023 PhD candidate in the junior research group AgriScape
Nov.-Dec. 2022 Research assistant in the project Mustergut Tellow at the Thünen Institute for Climate-Smart Agriculture, Brunswick
2019-2022
  • M.Sc. in "Environmental Sciences: Atmosphere, Biogeochemistry and Climate" at Stockholm University, Sweden
  • Thesis topic: "Inventory of the soil resources at the farm Tellow, Northern Germany: Current soil condition and future perspectives" supervised by PD Axel Don, Thünen-Institute for Climate-Smart Agriculture, Brunswick
2021-2022 Student assistant at the KlimAgrar research group, University of Potsdam
2020-2021 Erasmus scholarship for the master's program Geoecology at the University of Potsdam
2019-2019 Tuition Waiver Scholarship for the University of Sydney, Australia
2015-2019
  • B.Sc. in Geosciences, University of Göttingen
  • Thesis topic: "Distribution of the non-relevant metabolites Desphenyl-Chloridazon and Methyl-Desphenyl-Chloridazon in the aquatic environment" supervised by Prof. Dr. Tobias Licha