Albert Brouwer

Biography

Albert Brouwer is a research scholar in the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. He first joined IIASA in 2018, as part of the  former Ecosystems Services and Management Program,  where he was engaged in research data management and IT infrastructure for research model testing, integration, and parallel computation. His current research interests include nutrition for health, modern AI, and high-performance computing.


Before joining IIASA, Brouwer was employed at the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) where he was responsible for the virtual Data Exploitation Centre (vDEC), a platform for sharing treaty-verification signal data with external researchers.

Brouwer received his PhD in experimental physics from Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he specialized in molecular spectroscopy, performing fundamental research on various forms of carbon and exploring the interaction of electromagnetic fields with isolated quantum systems (single molecules and individual color centers).


In the past, he held various roles and was engaged in multiple projects at the intersection of research and IT, among others, at the European Space Agency (ESA), IMARES, Unilever Research, Philips Research, and Underwriters Laboratories. This experience helped him to develop competencies in several fields of science and IT specialties, notably geophysics, artificial intelligence, data acquisition, image analysis, and signal processing.


Last update: 20 FEB 2025