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
Nkwasa, A. , Nakkazi, M.T., Chawanda, C.J., Tang, T. , Suresh, K., Beusen, A., Micella, I., Strokal, M., Kahil, T. , & van Griensven, A. (2026). Future nutrient reduction needs in world's largest rivers to limit coastal eutrophication. Environmental Research: Water 2 e025004. 10.1088/3033-4942/ae54c3.
Orieschnig, C., Adla, S., Chun, K., Srivastava, S., Morovati, K., Howard, B., Octavianti, T., Uchôa, J., Duan, Z., Mazzoglio, P., Panchanathan, A., Széles, B., Koren, G., Papacharalampous, G., Pradhananga, D., Soulis, K., Choukrani, H., Dakhlaoui, H., Elçi, A., Fan, X., Khatami, S., Mendiondo, E., Payne, T., Rahmati, M., Roy, T., Skinner, C., Teutschbein, C., Yonaba, R., Adyel, T., Aguirre, I., Aslam, H., Ganapathy, A., Jain, J., Nkwasa, A. , O’Loughlin, F., Pechlivanidis, I., Pizarro, A., Sharma, A., Tyralis, H., Vora, S., Adla, S., Bertola, M., Boico, V., Ceperley, N., Dewals, B., Heinle, M., Jessen, S., Kaiselgruber, F., Lakhwan, N., Lateef, M., Mishra, A., Ojera, P., Ovcharuk, V., Singh, A., Wadhwa, A., Acharya, S., Alexandri, S., Carranza, E., Cavus, Y., Dogulu, N., Faty, A., Jorquera, J., Rane, V., & Zappa, M. (2026). Effective science communication in the face of water crises: a community perspective on challenges and best practice in HELPING. Hydrological Sciences Journal 1-18. 10.1080/02626667.2026.2625282.
Peeters, S.H., Teuling, F.S.R., Kumar, R., Nkwasa, A. , Gosling, S.N, Suresh, K., Micella, I., & Hofstra, N. (2026). On the value of indicators for large-scale water quality assessments. Environmental Research: Water 1 (4) e042002. 10.1088/3033-4942/ae3636.
Chawanda, C.J., van Griensven, A., Nkwasa, A. , Teran Orsini, J.P., Jeong, J., Choi, S.-K., Srinivasan, R., & Arnold, J.G. (2025). CoSWAT Model v1: A high-resolution global SWAT+ hydrological model. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 29 (23) 6901-6916. 10.5194/hess-29-6901-2025.
Waha, K., Folberth, C. , Biemans, H., Boere, E., Bondeau, A., Hartley, A.J., Hoogenboom, G., Jaegermeyr, J., Liu, Y., Mathison, C., Müller, C., Nkwasa, A. , Olin, S., Ruane, A.C., De Vos, K. , White, J.W., Williams, K., & Yu, Q. (2025). Land use modelling needs to better account for multiple cropping to inform pathways for sustainable agriculture. Communications Earth & Environment 6 (1) e756. 10.1038/s43247-025-02724-0.