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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
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.