Christian Folberth
Senior Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Christian Folberth joined IIASA's Ecosystem Services and Management Program as a Research Scholar in November 2013. He received his BSc in Horticultural Sciences and MSc in Environmental Planning and Engineering Ecology from Technical University of Munich. For the latter, he investigated factors influencing the degradation of pesticides in soil samples under laboratory conditions and a method for estimating the bioavailability of pesticides in soils.Subsequently, he conducted a PhD research project at the Swiss Federal institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) and ETH Zurich. The thesis dealt with large-scale modeling of climate change impacts on global crop yields, regionalization of the crop model for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and the assessment of different management practices for elevating yields and adapting to climate change in SSA. Additional research projects included climate change impacts on biofuel production in the USA, unbalanced fertilizer application in SSA, and the participation in the Intersectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP).
Dr. Folberth's research interests include bio-physical agricultural modeling, climate change impacts on agricultural production, and environmental quality related to agricultural production.
Last update: 19 NOV 2013
Publications
Müller, C., Elliott, J., Pugh, T.A.M., Ruane, A.C., Ciais, P., Balkovic, J. , Deryng, D., Folberth, C. , Izaurralde, R.C., Jones, C.D., Khabarov, N. , Lawrence, P., Liu, W., Reddy, A.D., Schmid, E., & Wang, X. (2018). Global patterns of crop yield stability under additional nutrient and water inputs. PLoS ONE 13 (6) e0198748. 10.1371/journal.pone.0198748.
Schleussner, C.-F., Deryng, D., Müller, C., Elliott, J., Saeed, F., Folberth, C. , Liu, W., Wang, X., Pugh, T., Thiery, W., Seneviratne, S.I., & Rogelj, J. (2018). Crop productivity changes in 1.5°C and 2°C worlds under climate sensitivity uncertainty. Environmental Research Letters 13 e064007. 10.1088/1748-9326/aab63b.
Rosenzweig, C., Ruane, A.C., Antle, J., Elliott, J., Ashfaq, M., Chatta, A.A., Ewert, F., Folberth, C. , Hathie, I., Havlik, P. , Hoogenboom, G., Lotze-Campen, H., MacCarthy, D.S., Mason-D'Croz, D., Contreras, E.M., Müller, C., Perez-Dominguez, I., Phillips, M., Porter, C., Raymundo, R.M., Sands, R.D., Schleussner, C.-F., Valdivia, R.O., Valin, H., & Wiebe, K. (2018). Coordinating AgMIP data and models across global and regional scales for 1.5°C and 2.0°C assessments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 376 (2119) e20160455. 10.1098/rsta.2016.0455.
Balkovic, J. , Skalsky, R. , Folberth, C. , Khabarov, N. , Schmidt, E., Madaras, M., Obersteiner, M. , & van der Velde, M. (2018). Impacts and Uncertainties of +2°C of Climate Change and Soil Degradation on European Crop Calorie Supply. Earth's Future 6 (3) 373 -395. 10.1002/2017EF000629.
Lim, C.-H., Choi, Y., Kim, M., Lee, S., Folberth, C. , & Lee, W.-K. (2018). Spatially Explicit Assessment of Agricultural Water Equilibrium in the Korean Peninsula. Sustainability 10 (1) p. 201. 10.3390/su10010201.