Georg Kindermann
Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Biography
Georg Kindermann is a research scholar in Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services research group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. He first joined the Institute in 2005.He holds a PhD in forestry, with particular focus on forest growth and yield modeling. He has experience in forest measurement and sample plot design, data storage (SQL), statistics (R), programming (C++, Julia) and GIS (QGis, Grass, gdal). He is developing a model estimating forest growth anywhere in the world, called the Global Forest Model (G4M), which allows simulation of the amount of biomass for bioenergy and carbon stored in forests, reacting to changes in the environment (temperature, precipitation, C02) and management (rotation time, thinning). In combination with economic estimates such as the wood price, it is possible to calculate the competition over land between different land uses and to find regions which have high pressure on deforestation.
Currently, Kindermann is also employed at the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Austria, where he is working on tree ring width analysis. There, he is developing a regional single tree forest growth simulator.
Previously, Kindermann worked at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in the Institute of Forest Growth and Yield Research in Vienna. He refined a distance dependent single tree growth simulator (Moses) to use it as decision support in companies. He also investigated the field of natural regeneration.
Last update: 06 JUN 2024
Publications
Frank, S. , Böttcher, H., Gusti, M., Havlík, P. , Klaassen, G., Kindermann, G. , & Obersteiner, M. (2016). Dynamics of the land use, land use change, and forestry sink in the European Union: the impacts of energy and climate targets for 2030. Climatic Change 138 (1) 253-266. 10.1007/s10584-016-1729-7.
Kraxner, F., Aoki, K., Kindermann, G. , Leduc, S., Albrecht, F., Liu, J., & Yamagata, Y. (2016). Bioenergy and the city - What can urban forests contribute? Applied Energy 165 990-1003. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.12.121.
Cherubini, F., Huijbregts, M., Kindermann, G. , Van Zelm, R., Van Der Velde, M., Stadler, K., & Strømman, A. H. (2016). Global spatially explicit CO2 emission metrics for forest bioenergy. Scientific Reports 6 no.20186. 10.1038/srep20186.
Forsell, N., Korosuo, A., Havlik, P. , Valin, H. , Lauri, P., Gusti, M., Kindermann, G. , & Obersteiner, M. (2016). Study on impacts on resource efficiency of future EU demand
for bioenergy. Task 3: Modelling of impacts of an increased EU bioenergy demand on biomass production, use and prices. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 109 pp.
Leduc, S., Kraxner, F., Serrano Leon, H., Kindermann, G. , Fuss, S., Marxen, A., & Walzer, C. (2016). Modeling Sustainable Bioenergy Feedstock Production in the Alps. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, 17–22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.