Education

• M.Sc. Sustainable Resource Management, Technical University of Munich
• M.Sc. Agrosystem Sciences, Technical University of Munich
• B.Sc. Agricultural Sciences, Technical University of Munich

Research areas

• Environmental and resource economics
• Modelling of costs of agricultural production
• Environmental valuation (choice experiments)

Research projects

• Grassworks

Teaching activities

• Introduction to Resource Economics (B.Sc.)
• Introduction to Econometrics (B.Sc.)

Publications

• Ptacek, M.; Frick, F. and Sauer, J. (2026), What is restoration success? Integrating AHP with a choice experiment to monetize the multifunctionality of grasslands. Journal of Environmental Management 397: 128106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.128106
• Temperton, V.M., Pătru-Dușe, I.A., Twerski, A., Laeseke, P., Neudert, R., Cebrián-Piqueras, M.A., Romero, M.P., Bauer, M., Beckmann, V., Fischer, J., Gray, K., Härdtle, W., Kollmann, J., Kuhn, L., Laschke, C.J., Loos, J., Lutz, L., May, F., Meyer, M., Martin-Lopez, B., Riechers, M., Ptacek, M., Seifert, D., Schmidt, A., Sturm, L., Thiele, J., Tischew, S., Unseld, L., Venus, T., Wiesmeier, M. and Kirmer, A. (2025), Proposing a social-ecological framework for successful grassland restoration in Germany—an overview and insights from the Grassworks project. Restor Ecol, 33: e70109. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70109
• Ptacek, M.; Frick, F.; Pahl, H.; Stetter, C.; Wimmer, S. and Sauer, J. (2024). 'ShapeCostTUM': A calculation tool for field geometry dependent cultivation and transport costs. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 225, 109254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2024.109254
• Spykman, O., Gabriel, A., Ptacek, M. and Gandorfer, M. (2021). Farmers' perspectives on field crop robots - Evidence from Bavaria, Germany. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 186, 106176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2021.106176