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Thomas Heckelei specializes in quantitative economic analysis based on econometric and simulation methodologies. Fields of applications generally target the sustainability performance of agri-food systems and comprise European agricultural and trade policies, farm structural change as well as European and African social-ecological systems. He co-coordinated the original development of the CAPRI model and contributed further to its strategic development as well as empirical specification. His group applies the model for ex-ante policy analysis until today. The development of applied econometric methodologies and specifically Bayesian techniques to include prior information has also been a reoccurring methodological theme in his research.  In more recent years, the toolbox was extended to agent-based models and machine learning approaches.