Andre Nakhavali
Research Scholar
Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Andre (Mahdi) Nakhavali joined the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program in 2022. His main area of research is the role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as their interconnectedness with biodiversity and ecosystem services.Nakhavali specializes in terrestrial carbon and nutrient dynamics. He previously developed an extension to the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), which includes the representation of processes related to dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in soil, its transport out of the soil into river systems (JULES-DOCM), representation of nitrogen leaching (JULES-CN), and the terrestrial phosphorus cycle (JULES-CNP). He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Exeter in the UK.
Last update: 04 SEP 2023
Publications
Jia, F.V., Deppermann, A., Balkovič, J. , Araujo Gutierrez, Z. , Gusti, M., Wögerer, M., Nakhavali, M.A. , Barthelmes, A., Palazzo, A. , Frank, S. , Krisztin, T. , Fuss, S., & Havlik, P. (2026). Restoring organic soils under agriculture: cost-effective portfolios in the context of European climate and biodiversity policies. Environmental Research Letters 21 (8) e084016. 10.1088/1748-9326/ae5fae.
Lokshin, A., Palchan, D., Sternberg, M., Goren, T., Nakhavali, A. , & Gross, A. (2026). Atmospheric dust is a global nutrient source for plants via foliar uptake. New Phytologist 10.1111/nph.71112. (In Press)
Nakhavali, A. , Di Fulvio, F. , & Kunin, W. (2026). D3.1 Adopted land use scenarios with predicted forest expansion maps. SafeNet 10.5281/zenodo.18428441.
Nakhavali, A. , Derci Augustynczik, A.L., Repo, A., Vangi, E., & Havlik, P. (2025). ForestScope: Comprehensive tool for analysing soil, climate, and stand data in forest ecosystems. Ecological Modelling 508 e111251. 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111251.
Palazzo, A. , Nakhavali, A. , Gerber, G. , Arbelaez Gaviria, J., Jung, M. , Drews, M., Meuriot, O.G.M., Martin, J.S., Bacca, S., Hinkel, J., & Lincke, D. (2025). ACCREU Report: Impacts on ecosystems & biodiversity. ACCREU (Assessing Climate Change Risk in EUrope)