Georg Kindermann
Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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
Gusti, M., Bottcher, H., Kindermann, G. , Havlik, P. , & Obersteiner, M. (2012). Simulation of REDD-plus options using IIASA model framework. In: iEMSs 2012: Managing Resources of a Limited Planet, 1-5 July 2012.
Schepaschenko, D. , See, L. , Fritz, S. , McCallum, I. , Schill, C., Perger, C., Baccini, A., Gallaun, H., Kindermann, G. , Kraxner, F., Saatchi, S., Obersteiner, M. , Santoro, M., Schmullius, C., Shvidenko, A., & Schepaschenko, M. (2012). Observing forest biomass globally. [[Earthzine]], posted on 9 June 2012 in Articles, Earth Observation, Forest Resources Information
Wetterlund, E., Leduc, S., Dotzauer, E., & Kindermann, G. (2012). Optimal localisation of biofuel production on a European scale. Energy 41 (1) 462-472. 10.1016/j.energy.2012.02.051.
Leduc, S., Wetterlund, E., Dotzauer, E., & Kindermann, G. (2012). Biofuel Production from Wood in Europe. In: Worlds Within Reach: From Science To Policy - IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference, 24-26 October 2012, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.
Leduc, S., Wetterlund, E., Dotzauer, E., & Kindermann, G. (2012). CHP or biofuel production in Europe? Energy Procedia 40-49. 10.1016/j.egypro.2012.03.006.