Andre Nakhavali

Research Scholar

Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group

Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

Biography

Andre (Mahdi) Nakhavali is a Research Scholar in the Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, which he joined in 2022. His research focuses on forest-based climate change mitigation and adaptation, with particular emphasis on forest carbon dynamics, sustainable forest management, biodiversity, and ecosystem services.

He specializes in terrestrial ecosystem modeling, biogeochemistry, and carbon and nutrient cycling. At IIASA, his work contributes to integrated assessments of land-use and forest-sector pathways, supporting the evaluation of climate-resilient and sustainable forest management strategies under future socio-economic and climate scenarios.

Prior to joining IIASA, Nakhavali developed extensions to the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), including representations of dissolved organic carbon dynamics and transport, nitrogen leaching, and the terrestrial phosphorus cycle. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Exeter, UK.

Last update: 16 JUL 2026

Publications

Nakhavali, A. , Gerber, G. , Arbelaez Gaviria, J., Wögerer, M., & Palazzo, A. (2025). Integrated Flood Exposure, Land-Use Impact, Crop & Grassland data. 10.5281/zenodo.15923032.

Ermolieva, T., Havlik, P. , Derci Augustynczik, A.L., Frank, S. , Deppermann, A., Nakhavali, A. , Balkovič, J. , Skalský, R. , & Komendantova, N. (2025). Robust Statistical Estimation and Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization: Quantile Regression EPIC Meta-Model of Soil Organic Carbon for Robust Decision Making with GLOBIOM. In: Stochastic Modeling and Optimization Methods for Critical Infrastructure Protection: Stochastic modeling. Eds. Gaivoronski, A., Knopov, P., Norkin, V., & Zaslavskyi, V., Wiley. ISBN 978-1-836-69027-6

Derci Augustynczik, A.L., Gusti, M., Deppermann, A., Nakhavali, A. , Jia, F., Di Fulvio, F. , & Havlik, P. (2025). Adapting forest management to climate change impacts and policy targets in the EU: Insights from the coupled GLOBIOM/G4M-i3PGmiX model. One Earth 8 (6) e101313. 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101313.

Ermolieva, T., Havlik, P. , Derci Augustynczik, A.L., Frank, S. , Balkovič, J. , Skalský, R. , Deppermann, A., Nakhavali, A. , Komendantova, N. , Kahil, T. , Wang, G., Folberth, C. , & Knopov, P.S. (2024). Tracking the Dynamics and Uncertainties of Soil Organic Carbon in Agricultural Soils Based on a Novel Robust Meta-Model Framework Using Multisource Data. Sustainability 16 (16) e6849. 10.3390/su16166849.

Vangi, E., Dalmonech, D., Morichetti, M., Grieco, E., Giannetti, F., D’Amico, G., Nakhavali, A. , Chirici, G., & Collalti, A. (2024). Stand Age and Climate Change Effects on Carbon Increments and Stock Dynamics. Forests 15 (7) e1120. 10.3390/f15071120.