Georg Kindermann
Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Biography
Georg Kindermann joined the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in 2005 as a Research Scholar in the Forestry Program, now the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program. 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++, Perl) and gis (QGis, Grass). He has developed a model estimating forest growth for any point on the globe (global forest growth model - g4gm) which allows simulation of the amount of biomass for bioenergy and stored carbon in forests which are reacting on 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, Dr. Kindermann is also employed at the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), where he is working on tree ring width analysis. There, he is developing a regional single tree forest growth simulator.
Previously, Dr. 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 a decision support in a company. He has also investigated in the field of natural regeneration.
Last update: 04 MAR 2015
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.