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
Leduc, S., Kindermann, G. , Forsell, N., & Kraxner, F. (2015). Bioenergy potential from forest biomass. In: Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Eds. Yan, Jinyue, Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 9781118991978 10.1002/9781118991978.
Kraxner, F., Schepaschenko, D. , Fuss, S., Lunnan, A., Kindermann, G. , Aoki, K., & Shvidenko, A. (2015). Forest management certification - a new tool for certification monitoring, planning and mapping. In: XIV World Forestry Congress 2015, 7-11 September 2015, Durban, South Africa.
Schepaschenko, D. , Kraxner, F., See, L. , Fuss, S., McCallum, I. , Fritz, S. , Perger, C., Shvidenko, A., Kindermann, G. , Frank, S. , Tum, M., Schmid, E., Balkovic, J. , & Guenther, K. (2015). Global biomass information: from data generation to application. In: Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Eds. Yan, Jinyue, Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 9781118991978 10.1002/9781118991978.
Kraxner, F., Fuss, S., Krey, V. , Best, D., Leduc, S., Kindermann, G. , Yamagata, Y., Schepaschenko, D. , Shvidenko, A., Aoki, K., & Yan, J. (2015). The role of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) for climate policy. In: Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Eds. Yan, Jinyue, Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 9781118991978 10.1002/9781118991978.
Kraxner, F., Fuss, S., Leduc, S., Kindermann, G. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Shvidenko, A., Yowargana, P., & Aoki, K. (2014). Principles of BECCS - regional and national case studies: assessing the potentials. In: Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research. pp. p. 267 Proceedings of the XXIV IUFRO World Congress, 5-11 October 2014, Salt Lake City.