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
Bak, M.P., Micella, I., Jones, E.R., Kumar, R., Nkwasa, A. , Tang, T., van Vliet, M.T.H., Wang, M., & Strokal, M. (2025). Future river exports of nutrients, plastics and chemicals worldwide under climate-driven hydrological changes. Environmental Research Letters 20 (9) e094033. 10.1088/1748-9326/adf860.
Strokal, M., Kumar, R., Bak, M.P., Jones, E.R., Beusen, A., Flörke, M., Grizzetti, B., Nkwasa, A. , Schweden, K., Ural-Janssen, A., van Griensven, A., Vigiak, O., van Vliet, M.T.H., Wang, M., de Graaf, I.E.M., Dürr, H.H., Gosling, S.N., Hofstra, N., Nakkazi, M.T., Ouedraogo, I., Reinecke, R., Strokal, V., Suresh, K., Tang, T., Teuling, F.S.R.S.R., Tilahun, A.B., Troost, T.A., van Wijk, D., & Micella, I. (2025). Advancing water quality model intercomparisons under global change: Perspectives from the new ISIMIP water quality sector. Environmental Research: Water 10.1088/3033-4942/adf571. (In Press)
Kumar, A., Gosling, S.N., Johnson, M.F., Jones, M.D., Nkwasa, A. , Koutroulis, A., Schmied, H.M., Li, H.-Y., Kim, H., Hanasaki, N., Kumar, R., Thiery, W., & Pokhrel, Y. (2025). Cascading droughts: Exploring global propagation of meteorological to hydrological droughts (1971–2001). Science of the Total Environment 979 e179486. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179486.
Wilson, H., Raasakka, N., Spyrakos, E., Millar, D., Neely, M.B., Salyani, A., Pawar, S., Chernov, I., Ague, S.K.de L., Aguilar Vega, X., Akinsemolu, A., Baltodano Martinez, A., Cillero Castro, C., Del Valle, M., Fadlelseed, M., Ferral, A., Hassen, J.M., Jiang, D., Mubambi, T.K., La Fuente, S., Lateef, L.O., Lobo, F.de L., Marty, J., Nkwasa, A. , Obuya, J.A., Ogashawara, I., Reusen, I., Rogers, A., Schmidt, S.I., Sharma, K., Simis, S.G.H., Wang, S., Warner, S., & Tyler, A. (2025). Unlocking the global benefits of Earth Observation to address the SDG 6 in situ water quality monitoring gap. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 6 10.3389/frsen.2025.1549286.
Nkwasa, A. , Menke, I., Murken, L., Zaharia, L., Ioana-Toroimac, G., Müller, L., Michetti, M., Asaduzzaman, M., Morosanu-Mitoșeriu, G.-A., Nakkazi, M.T., Akstinas, V., Akiyama, A.A., Gregor, K., Basaran, N., Kumar, A., Shiko, V., Tekin, H., Vaculovschi, E., Biçer, P.V., Reyer, C.P.O., & van Griensven, A.. (2025). Stakeholder engagement for inclusive climate impact attribution studies. Environmental Research: Climate 4 (1) e013001. 10.1088/2752-5295/ada8cc.