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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

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Kindermann, G. (2012). Estimating the Net Primary Productivity of major Tree Species 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.

Kraxner, F., Nordstrom, E.-M., Obersteiner, M. , Havlik, P. , Gusti, M., Kindermann, G. , Fuss, S., & Khabarov, N. (2012). Global Feedstock Scenarios for Bioenergy - Land-Use Change and Trade-Offs. Paper submitted to IEW 2012, the 31st edition of the International Energy Workshop, 19-21 June 2012, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Lauri, P., Havlik, P. , Kindermann, G. , & Obersteiner, M. (2012). Global potential of energy wood. In: Worlds Within Reach: From Science To Policy - IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference, 24-26 October 2012, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.

Kraxner, F., Leduc, S., Kindermann, G. , Aoki, K., Fuss, S., Yang, J., Yamagata, Y., Il Tak, K., Schepaschenko, D. , Shvidenko, A., Albrecht, F., & Obersteiner, M. (2012). Negative Emissions - BECCS case studies for Europe, Korea, Japan, and Russia. In: Worlds Within Reach: From Science To Policy - IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference, 24-26 October 2012, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.

Fritz, S. , Shchepashchenko, D. , McCallum, I. , Perger, C., Schill, C., Baccini, A., Gallaun, H., Kindermann, G. , Obersteiner, M. , Santoro, M., Schmullius, C., & Shvidenko, A. (2011). Observing terrestrial biomass globally: http://biomass.geo-wiki.org. AGU Fall Meeting 2011, Abstract B51C-0404 (December 2011)