Christian Folberth
Senior Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Chris Folberth is a senior researcher in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. The main focus of his research is process-based agro-ecosystem modeling to improve the understanding of the interactions between crop and soil management, climate impacts, and adaptation potentials. He also serves as the group’s liaison to community networks such as the Intersectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) and the Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) initiative.Besides process-based modeling, he leads initiatives on data-driven and hybrid modeling to harness the combined advantages of both process-based and machine-learning methods. He also engages in transdisciplinary research that aligns methods and tools with stakeholder needs.
Prior to joining IIASA in 2013, he was a research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) and the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), where he also acquired a doctoral degree. In the years 2015-2016, he completed a research fellowship at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, focusing on geographies of substance flows in the agro-food system.
Last update: 21 MAY 2024
Publications
Jägermeyr, J., Robock, A., Elliott, J., Müller, C., Xia, L., Khabarov, N. , Folberth, C. , Schmid, E., Liu, W., Zabel, F., Rabin, S.S., Puma, M.J., Heslin, A.C., Franke, J., Foster, I., Asseng, S., Bardeen, C.G., Toon, O.B., & Rosenzweig, C. (2020). A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 10.1073/pnas.1919049117.
Franke, J.A., Müller, C., Elliott, J., Ruane, A.C., Jägermeyr, J., Balkovic, J. , Ciais, P., Dury, M., Falloon, P.D., Folberth, C. , François, L., Hank, T., Hoffmann, M., Izaurralde, R.C., Jacquemin, I., Jones, C., Khabarov, N. , Koch, M., Li, M., Liu, W., Olin, S., Phillips, M., Pugh, T.A.M., Reddy, A., Wang, X., Williams, K., Zabel, F., & Moyer, E.J. (2020). The GGCMI Phase 2 experiment: global gridded crop model simulations under uniform changes in CO<sub>2</sub>, temperature, water, and nitrogen levels (protocol version 1.0). Geoscientific Model Development 13 (5) 2315-2336. 10.5194/gmd-13-2315-2020.
Herrero, M., Thornton, P.K., Mason-D’Croz, D., Palmer, J., Benton, T.G., Bodirsky, B.L., Bogard, J.R., Hall, A., Lee, B., Nyborg, K., Pradhan, P., Bonnett, G.D., Bryan, B.A., Campbell, B.M., Christensen, S., Clark, M., Cook, M.T., de Boer, I.J. M., Downs, C., Dizyee, K., Folberth, C. , Godde, C.M., Gerber, J.S., Grundy, M., Havlik, P. , Jarvis, A., King, R., Loboguerrero, A.M., Lopes, M.A., McIntyre, C. L., Naylor, R., Navarro, J., Obersteiner, M. , Parodi, A., Peoples, M.B., Pikaar, I., Popp, A., Rockström, J., Robertson, M.J., Smith, P., Stehfest, E., Swain, S.M., Valin, H. , van Wijk, M., van Zanten, H.E.H., Vermeulen, S., Vervoort, J., & West, P.C. (2020). Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system. Nature Food 1 (5) 266-272. 10.1038/s43016-020-0074-1.
Rovenskaya, E. , Aghababaei Samani, K., Baklanov, A. , Ermolieva, T., Folberth, C. , Fritz, S. , Hadi, H., Javalera Rincón, V. , Krasovskii, A. , Laurien, F. , Poblete Cazenave, M., Schinko, T. , Smilovic, M. , & Zebrowski, P. (2019). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Systems Analysis of the 21st Century. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-19-010