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Cambridge Global Food Security

An Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge
 

Franziska is an agricultural scientist with a keen interest in science for policy.

She received her M.Sc. with a main focus in Agro-Economics from the Technical University of Munich in Germany, and her MSc in Crop Science from the University of Nottingham, where she studied in the UK and Malaysia. She then joined the University of Cambridge for research in agriculture and food security.

Franziska serves on the facilitation team for one of two stakeholder networks (ONet) at the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). She gave the Stakeholder Opening Statement to the IPBES Plenary in 2023, and contributed as an expert reviewer to two IPBES assessment reports in 2024. Before, she had done short stints with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with an environmental consultancy on an EU Commission project, and in regulatory policy at Bayer Crop Science, followed by a five-year term on the Royal Society of Biology’s Education and Science Policy Committee.

Franziska has supervised in plant science, co-supervised internships in crop research, and worked as Programme Manager and Senior Teaching Associate in bioscience enterprise. Taking a special interest in international students, she is qualified in content and language integrated learning (TKT: CLIL). She has also served on selection committees for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

As a STEM Ambassador inspiring young people in science, Franziska has developed and co-developed outreach projects on plants and crop diversity. She is a facilitator for biodiversity workshops with Fresque de la Biodiversité.

Franziska has won a BBSRC studentship, a Cambridge Trust scholarship, and a Cambridge Philosophical Society Research Studentship. She also thanks the University and Magdalene College for their generous support.

Researcher in Wheat Genetics.
Franziska Fischer

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