• Produktivitäts- und Effizienz-Analyse im Ökolandbau
• Entwicklung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU (GAP)
• Ökonomische und ökologische Auswirkungen der Agrarumweltpolitik der EU (Greening, zweite Säule)
• Nachhaltigkeit von Landnutzungssystemen
• Ökonomik und Strukturwandel im Ökolandbau

• Österreichische Gesellschaft für Agrarökonomie (ÖGA)
• European Association for Agricultural Economics (EAAE)

2020 - jetzt Professur Agrarökonomie an der Agrar- und Umweltwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Rostock

2019 - 2020 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Thünen-Institut für Ländliche Räume, Braunschweig

2010 - 2019 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Agrarpolitik, Universität Göttingen

2005-2009 Promotion in Agrarwissenschaften (Dr sc agr) am Lehrstuhl für Agrarpolitik (Prof. Dr. S. von Cramon-Taubadel), Thema der Dissertation: Effizienzanalyse im ökologischen Landbau - Bestandsaufnahme, empirische Analyse und agrarpolitische Schlussfolgerungen

2002-2004 Studium Agrarwissenschaften (MSc) an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 

1997-2002 Studium Ökologische Landwirtschaft (Dipl-Ing) an der Universität Kassel/Witzenhausen

• Pe'er, G., Finn, J.A., Díaz, M., Birkenstock, M., Lakner, S., Röder, N., Kazakova, Y., Šumrada, T., Bezák, P., Concepción, E.D., Dänhardt, J., Morales, M.B., Rac, I., Špulerová, J., Schindler, S., Stavrinides, M., Targetti, S., Viaggi, D., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Guyomard, H., How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts (2022) Conservation Letters,15,6.

• Mupepele, A.-C., H. Bruelheide; C. Brühl; J. Dauber; M. Fenske; A.  Freibauer; B. Gerowitt; A. Krüß; S. Lakner; T. Plieninger; T. Potthast; S.  Schlacke; R. Seppelt; H. Stützel; W. Weisser; W. Wägele; K. Böhning-Gaese; A.-M. Klein (2021): Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed; Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 36(12), pp. 1067-1070.
• Beber, C.L.; S. Lakner; I. Skevas (2021): Organizational forms and technical efficiency of the dairy processing industry in Southern Brazil; Agricultural and Food Economics 9(1) pp. 23.

• Candel, J.J.L.; S. Lakner; G. Pe'er (2021): Europe's reformed agricultural policy disappoints; Nature, pp. 650.

• Tanneberger, F.; L. Appulo, St. Ewert, S. Lakner, N. Ó Brolcháin, J. Peters, and W. Wichtmann (2020): The Power of Nature-Based Solutions: How Peatlands Can Help Us to Achieve Key EU Sustainability Objectives; Adv. Sustainable Syst. 2020, 2000146, doi: DOI: 10.1002/adsu.202000146
• Pe’er, G. and S. Lakner (2020): The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy Could Be Spent Much More Efficiently to Address Challenges for Farmers, Climate, and Biodiversity; One Earth 3, doi: org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.004
• Lakner, S., Y. Zinngrebec and D. Koemlee (2020): Combining management plans and payment schemes for targeted grassland conservation within the Habitats Directive in Saxony, Eastern Germany; Land Use Policy 97 (2020) 104642, doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104642
• Pe'er, G., Y. Zinngrebe, F. Moreira, C. Sirami, S. Schindler, R. Müller, V. Bontzorlos, D. Clough, P. Bezák, A. Bonn, B. Hansjürgens, A. Lomba, S. Möckel, G. Passoni, C. Schleyer, J. Schmidt & S. Lakner (2019): A greener path for the EU Common Agricultural Policy - It's time for sustainable, environmental performance; Science 365 (6452): 449-451; doi: 10.1126/science.aax3146
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• Seidel, C., T. Heckelei u. S. Lakner (2019): Conventionalization of Organic Farms in Germany: An Empirical Investigation Based on a Composite Indicator Approach; Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Wildlife 11, doi: 10.3390/su11102934. (Open Access!)
• Lakner, S. & R. Oppermann (2018): A CAP-Reform Model to strengten Nature Conservation - Impacts for Farms and for the Public Budget in Germany, in: Austrian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Rural Studies (Open Access!), Vol. 27.17: p.129-137, doi: 10.15203/OEGA_27.17
• Lakner, S., S. Kirchweger, D. Hoop, B. Brümmer & J. Kantelhardt (2018): The effects of diversification activities on the technical efficiency of organic farms in Switzerland, Austria and Southern Germany, Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Wildlife (Open Access!) 10(4), 1304; doi:10.3390/su10041304
• Lakner, S. & G. Breustedt (2017): Efficiency analysis of organic farming systems - a review of concepts, topics, results and conclusions, German Journal of Agricultural Economics 66 (2): 85-108.
• Zinngrebe, Y., G. Pe'er, S. Schüler, J. Schmitt, J. Schmidt & S. Lakner (2017): The EU's Ecological Focus Areas - explaining farmers' choices in Germany (Open Access!), Land Use Policy, Vol. 65 (June 2017): 93-108, doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.03.027.
• Lakner, S., T. Brenes-Muñoz & B. Brümmer (2017): Technical Efficiency in Chilean Agribusiness Industry - a Metafrontier Approach, Agribusiness 33 (3): 302-323, doi: 10.1002/agr.21493.
• Pe'er, G., Y. Zinngrebe, J. Hauck, S. Schindler, A. Dittrich, S. Zingg, T. Tscharntke, R. Oppermann, L. Sutcliffe, C. Sirami, J. Schmidt, C. Hoyer, C. Schleyer and S. Lakner (2016): Adding some green to the greening: improving the EU's Ecological Focus Areas for biodiversity and farmers (Open Access!), Conservation Letters 10 (5): 517–530, DOI: 10.1111/conl.12333.
• Brenes-Muñoz, T., S. Lakner & B. Brümmer (2016): What Influences the Growth of Organic Farms? Evidence from a Panel of Organic Farms in Germany, German Journal for Agricultural Economics, 65 (2016), Number 1: 1-15.
• Lakner, S. & C. Holst (2015): Betriebliche Umsetzung der Greening-Auflagen: die ökonomischen Bestimmungsgründe, Natur und Landschaft 90, 6, S. 271-277.
• Würriehausen, N., R. Ihle & S. Lakner (2015): Price relationships between qualitatively differentiated agricultural products: organic and conventional wheat in Germany, Agricultural Economics, Vol. 46, 2, pp. 195-209.
• Heinrich, B., C. Holst & S. Lakner (2013): Die Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik: Wird alles grüner und gerechter? In: GAIA 22/1 (2013): S. 20–24.
• Lakner, S., S. von Cramon-Taubadel & B. Brümmer (2012): Technical efficiency of organic pasture farming in Germany: The role of location economics and of specific knowledge, Journal for Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Vol. 27, 3, pp 228-241.