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. , Lauerwald, R., Regnier, P., & Friedlingstein, P. (2024). Predicting Future Trends of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Carbon Transport to Global River Systems. Earth's Future 12 (4) e2023EF004137. 10.1029/2023EF004137.
Nakhavali, A. , Lauerwald, R., Regnier, P., & Friedlingstein, P. (2024). Historical trends and drivers of the laterally transported terrestrial dissolved organic carbon to river systems. Science of the Total Environment 917 e170560. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170560.
Lu, H., Wang, X., Zhang, H., Xie, X., Nakhavali, A. , Quine, T.A., Xu, W., Xia, J., He, B., Hao, Z., Geng, X., & Yuan, W. (2024). Soil Organic Carbon Lateral Movement Processes Integrated Into a Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 16 (1) e2023MS003916. 10.1029/2023MS003916.