Georg Kindermann

Research Scholar

Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group

Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

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

Forsell, N., Korosuo, A., Havlik, P. , Valin, H. , Lauri, P., Gusti, M., Kindermann, G. , Obersteiner, M. , Böttcher, H., Hennenberg, K., Hünecke, K., Wiegmann, K., Bowyer, C., Nanni, S., Allen, B., Poláková, J., Fitzgerland, J., & Linder, M. (2016). Study on impacts on resource efficiency of future EU demand
for bioenergy (ReceBio). Final report. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. ISBN 978-92-79-58757-3

Kraxner, F., Fuss, S., Leduc, S., Yowargana, P., Kindermann, G. , Pietsch, S. , & Hetland, J. (2015). Driving clean energy and green economy with the help of forest-based bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) - A case study on Indonesia. In: XIV World Forestry Congress, 7-11 September 2015, Durban, South Africa.

van Zelm, R., Muchada, P.A.N., van der Velde, M., Kindermann, G. , Obersteiner, M. , & Huijbregts, M.A.J. (2015). Impacts of biogenic CO2 emissions on human health and terrestrial ecosystems: The case of increased wood extraction for bioenergy production on a global scale. GCB Bioenergy 7 (4) 608-617. 10.1111/gcbb.12153.

Repo, A., Bottcher, H., Kindermann, G. , & Liski, J. (2015). Sustainability of forest bioenergy in Europe: Land-use-related carbon dioxide emissions of forest harvest residues. GCB Bioenergy 7 (4) 877-887. 10.1111/gcbb.12179.

Kraxner, F., Shchepashchenko, D. , Fuss, S., Lunnan, A., Kindermann, G. , Aoki, K., & Shvidenko, A. (2015). Forest management certification . application of a new tool for certification mapping to the boreal forest. In: 17th IBFRA Conference, Towards A New Era of Forest Science in the Boreal Region, 24-29 May 2015, Ravaniemi, Finland.