Albert Nkwasa
Research Scholar
Water Security Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Albert Nkwasa is a research scholar in the Water Security Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. His primary research interests and work center around the integrated modeling and mapping of the quality of freshwater ecosystems at regional and global scales within the complexities of global change, including climate change, land-use and land cover change, socioeconomic dynamics, and policy shifts. His work extends to impact attribution of changes in hydrological and water quality variables.Nkwasa holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences (2023) from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium with greatest distinction and felicitations of the jury. In 2022, he was honored with the prestigious Ernest Dubois Prize, presented by the Koning Boudewijnstichting for his contributions to advancing knowledge in water quality-related domains, in particular water pollution in Africa.
Last update: 04 FEB 2025
Publications
Undorf, S., Dimitrova, A., Harrington, L.J., Hegerl, G.C., Jézéquel, A., Kimutai, J., Lo, Y.T.E., Mengel, M., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Pietroiusti, R., Pinto, I., Schurer, A., Scussolini, P., Sippel, S., Stone, D., Stuart-Smith, R., Gudmundsson, L., Huber, V., Colón-González, F.J., Dellicour, S., Erazo, D., Fischer, E., Frieler, K., Gornott, C., Hawkins, E., Holden, P., Koren, G., Lampe, S., Mitchell, D., Murken, L., New, M., Nkwasa, A. , Seneviratne, S.I., Wehner, M., & Thiery, W. (2026). Approaches, challenges and applications of climate change impact attribution. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 10.1038/s43017-026-00798-8.
Micella, I., Bak, M.P., Dürr, H.H., Jones, E.R., Kumar, R., Nkwasa, A. , Suresh, K., Tang, T. , van Vliet, M.T.H., Wang, M., & Strokal, M. (2026). Uneven distribution of multi-pollutant hotspots worldwide: river exports to seas and their global change drivers in the future. Environmental Research: Water 2 (2) e025002. 10.1088/3033-4942/ae4ad1.
Teran, J.P., Schlemm, A., Nyamweya, C.S., Nkwasa, A. , Chawanda, C.J., Frieler, K., Nyolei, D., & van Griensven, A. (2026). Stakeholder-informed mapping of climate change impacts on the Water-Energy-Food-Environment nexus in the Lake Victoria basin. Environmental Research: Water 10.1088/3033-4942/ae6e69. (In Press)
Wang, S., Huang, Y., Shao, Y., Zhang, T., Song, S., Feng, K., Li, N., Fath, B. , Nkwasa, A. , & Dong, F. (2026). Unlocking energy-carbon-water synergies in global water supply system maintenance. Nature Communications 10.1038/s41467-026-72300-3. (In Press)
Chun, K.P., Octavianti, T., Bradford, L., Reeves, M., Nagheeby, M., Olusola, A., Howard, B.C., Ceperley, N., Castelli, G., Nkwasa, A. , Budiyono, Y., Strickert, G., Morales-Marin, L.A., Sutanto, S.J., Nóbrega, R.L.B., Diele-Viegas, L.M., & Gopinath, D. (2026). Decolonising hydrology: Reflecting on positionalities for sustainable and just futures. Environmental Science & Policy 178 e104340. 10.1016/j.envsci.2026.104340.