Dr. Katrin Drastig is the Leader of the working group "Water Productivity in Agriculture (AgroHyd)" at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy. She studied geology at TU Berlin, Germany, with a focus on hydrogeology, and was awarded the Diplom degree. She was a research associate in the Department of Applied Geosciences at Giessen University, Germany, headed by Prof. Karl-Knoblich (Giessen University). Besides, she worked at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Potsdam-Bornim, Germany (ATB), in the Department of Technology Assessment and Substance Cycles, headed by Dr. Annette Prochnow (ATB, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany). Also, she worked as Co-chair of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Water Footprinting of the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance Partnership (LEAP) of the FAO. Her research areas include process assessment under climate change conditions; assessment of technical and process adaptation demand; and agricultural water balances of single processes and whole branches as the basis for further development.