Alaa Al Khourdajie

Biography

Alaa Al Khourdajie has been a guest research scholar jointly associated with the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change, and Sustainable Service Systems research groups of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program since June 2022. In August 2023, he was a guest researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving). In addition, he was recently appointed as a Lead Author for the 7th Assessment of the Global Environment Outlook by UNEP.

Al Khourdajie joined Imperial College London as a research fellow in 2019. During the first three years of his fellowship, he served as a full-time Senior Scientist at the Technical Support Unit of Working Group III (WGIII - Climate Mitigation) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He supported the production of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6), where he also acted as a Contributing Author. His contributions to the assessment were focused on topics related to integrated assessment modeling and mitigation scenarios assessment. He served as the Ex-Officio Member of the IPCC Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments (TG-Data). He also contributed to the AR6 Scenarios Database international outreach activities and supported international processes at UNFCCC and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) (such as the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement) in communicating the results of the WGIII assessment report.

Currently based in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College, Alaa is mainly involved in the EU project IAM COMPACT. His research spans multiple projects and focuses on the application of integrated assessment models (IAMs) in finance and their interaction with climate emulators. He also explores the roles of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). His ongoing work includes assessing scenarios using statistical decomposition methods and Principal Component Analysis (PCA), as well as clustering techniques.

He earned his PhD in climate change economics from the University of Bath in the UK in 2017. 

Find out more about his research: https://sites.google.com/site/akhourdajie/


Last update: 18 OCT 2023