Gastforscher

Dr. Roperto S. Deluna, Jr. is an Associate Professor and the Dean of the College of Applied Economics at the University of Southeastern Philippines. He is also a leading researcher at the Socio-Economic Research and Data Analytics Center (SERDAC Mindanao), where he specializes in socio-economic research services. Dr. Deluna holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas.

His research spans three primary areas: impact evaluations, farm succession planning, and macroeconometrics. He conducts randomized control trials to assess the effects of land parcelization on beneficiaries of the Philippine agrarian reform program. He leads evaluations of the Philippine Seaweed Program and the Philippine Mallard Duck (ItikPinas) Program to measure stakeholder impact and provide recommendations for future development. Additionally, Dr. Deluna oversees a farm succession laboratory that explores farm succession across agricultural sub-sectors, including studies on farmers in Lantapan, Bukidnon, coffee farmers, and cacao farmers, to support the institutionalization of succession planning in the Philippines. His academic research also focuses on macroeconometrics, particularly the analysis of asymmetry in macroeconomic variables to better understand the effectiveness of policy responses to economic shocks.

Dr. Deluna served as a visiting researcher at the University of Passau in 2024, where he contributed to the ReValueD project through his work on “Farm Succession in the Philippines.”

Dr. Moises Neil V. Seriño is a professor of the Department of Economics, Visayas State University (VSU), Philippines and currently served as the Vice President for Planning and Development at VSU. He holds a doctorate degree in Economics from the University of Göttingen, Germany with Prof Stephan Klasen as his supervisor. He was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He was a John Dillon Fellow of the Australian Center for International and Agricultural Research, Australia and recipient of the USDA Scientific Exchange Fellow at Louisiana State University, USA. He served as a guest lecturer at the Universitas Negeri Malang (Indonesia), University Malaysia Terengganu (Malaysia) and King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Labkrabang (Thailand).

He is a board member of the Philippine Agriculture and Economic Development Association. He served as the national co-convenor of the Australia Alumni Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Community of Practice. He is a regular member of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). In addition, Dr. Seriño has been appointed as one of the members of the Technical Panel for Economics of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Philippines in 2022.

Dr. Seriño served as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Passau in 2024, where he contributed to the ReValueD project related to behavioral experiments with coconut producers in the Philippines.

Dr. Germano Glufke Reis ist Professor und Forscher an der Universidade Federal de Paraná, School of Management, in Südbrasilien. Ebenso ist er der Koordinator von SfoodLab (Sustainable Food Value Chains Laboratory). Er hat einen Ph.D. in Business Administration con der Universität São Paulo, Brasilien, and war ein Gastdoktorand an der Judge Business School, University od Cambridge, UK. Er betrieb postdoktorale Forschung am International Institute of Social Studies an der Erasmus Universität in den Niederlanden. Darüber hinaus war er Gastforscher an der Cellular Agriculture Research Group am Ruralia Institute an der Universität Helsinki, Finnland.

Seine Forschung konzentriert sich vor allem auf nachhaltige Wertschöpfungsketten in der Lebensmittelindustrie, mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf der Fleischindustrie und dem Bereich Fleischalternativen. Er hat verschiedene Facetten der Wertschöpfungsketten von kultiviertem Fleisch (Zellfleisch) und anderen alternativen Proteinquellen erforscht, die das Potenzial haben, die konventionelle Fleischindustrie erheblich zu verändern. Diese Alternativen können relevante ökologische und tierethische Bedenken im Zusammenhang mit der großtechnischen Fleischproduktion lindern.

Er wird Gastwissenschaftler an der Universität Passau im Rahmen des Stipendienprogramms des Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS) und in Kooperation mit der Forschungsgruppe Bioökonomie. Während seiner Zeit in Passau, wird Dr. Reis sich am Projekt "Disruptive Innovation und "hybride" Produkte: eine ökonomische Perspektive des disruptiven Potenzials verschiedener Formen von kultiviertem (zellbasierten) Fleisch" beteiligen.

Dr. Peter Bilson Obour is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana, Legon. He holds an MSc in Agro-Environmental Management and a PhD in Agroecology (Soil Physics and Hydropedology) from Aarhus University, Denmark.

Dr. Obour’s research lies at the interface of the natural and social sciences, addressing sustainability challenges in agricultural systems. Over the past five years, his work has focused on three key areas: (i) soil management and the use of organic amendments for sustainable crop production, (ii) climate change impacts and adaptation in smallholder agriculture, and (iii) the development of resilient and sustainable farming systems.

Dr. Obour served as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Passau in 2025, where he contributed to the ReValueD project related to behavioral experiments with cashew producers in Ghana.