Dr. Ahmad Hamidov is a postdoctoral researcher of the “Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes (IMA)” Working Group at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). He received his master’s degree in water and coastal management at the University of Cadiz (semester I) and the University of Algarve (semester II and III) in 2007 and completed his PhD in agricultural economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2015. His areas of expertise are institutional economics, community-based resource management, collective action for common pool resources management, and research methods for social-ecological system analysis.