Mansi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economic-Ecological Policy Modelling at the University of Hohenheim. She is an interdisciplinary scientist working at the intersection of economic analysis, environmental policy, sustainable farming systems, and climate challenges. Her research focuses on quantitative socio-economic analysis and modelling of agricultural systems to support evidence-based sustainability policies under climate pressures.

• Integrated land use and economic modelling
• Climate change impacts and adaptation in agriculture
• Agricultural policy analysis
• Ecological-economic modelling
• Extreme events in agriculture

Mansi is responsible for advancing and scaling agricultural land-use model and developing approaches to link this model with other economic and ecological models and analysis.

PhD in Economics, Leipzig university, Expected September 2026 (defense scheduled)
Dissertation: “Extreme Weather Impacts and Adaptation: Economic Insights into Agricultural Damages and Land-Use Responses”

Master of Arts in Agribusiness Economics, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune, India

Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Delhi University, New Delhi, India

• February 2020-Decmeber 2026: Doctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
• October 2019 – November 2019: Teagasc Walsh Fellow, Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Ireland
• June 2016 – September 2019: Project Scientist (Consultant), CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, New Delhi, India
• May 2015 – May 2016: Junior Research Assistant, Creative Agri Soultions Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, India
  
  

Full list of publications available at: Google-Scholar-Profile

• Heilemann, J., Klassert, C.J.A., Nagpal, M., Werner, S., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2026). Trapped in irrigation: Future irrigation expansion amplifies food-water-energy policy trade-offs in Germany. Earth Future 14 (4), e2025EF007226, 10.1029/2025EF007226
• Nagpal, M., Heilemann, J., Klassert, C., Bevacqua, E., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2026). Attribution of extreme weather event impacts on crop yields and economic damages to climate change, Environ. Res. Clim. 5 (2), art. 021001, 10.1088/2752-5295/ae541a
• Bartkowski, B., Baaken, M.C., Nagpal, M., Sodoge, J., de Brito, M.M. (2025). What constitutes sustainable agriculture for different audiences in Germany? A comparative analysis of large-scale text data. People Nat. 7 (3), 715 - 730, 10.1002/pan3.70003
• Heilemann, J., Nagpal, M., Werner, S., Klauer, B., Gawel, E., Klassert, C. (2025). Scenario projections of future irrigation water demand for field crops in Germany considering farmers’ adaptive land use. Agric. Water Manage. 318 , art. 109699, 10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109699
• Nagpal, M., Heilemann, J., Samaniego, L., Klauer, B., Gawel, E., Klassert, C. (2025). Measuring extremes-driven direct biophysical impacts in agricultural drought damages.Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (6), 2115 - 2135, 10.5194/nhess-25-2115-2025
• Nagpal, M., Klassert, C., Heilemann, J., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2024). Measuring crop acreage adaptation to changing yields and prices: An empirical analysis for agriculture in Germany, SSRN. 10.2139/ssrn.4728661