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Jens Borken-Kleefeld

Senior Research Scholar

Pollution Management Research Group

Energy, Climate, and Environment Program

Biography

Jens Borken-Kleefeld is a Senior Researcher in the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. He works on the impact assessment of traffic and is an expert in remote sensing of vehicle emissions. He provides policy advice, works as a consultant, and is also a member of the European expert group on transport emission modeling (ERMES).

Borken graduated in Atmospheric Physics from Heidelberg University, Germany in 1996, after having earned an MSc in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London. He earned a PhD in Technology Impact Assessment while working at the Transportation Research Institute of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).


Last update: 13 SEP 2021

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Purohit, P. , Amann, M., Kiesewetter, G. , Schöpp, W., Wagner, F. , Klimont, Z. , Heyes, C. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Srivastava, P., & Borken-Kleefeld, J. (2024). Cost-effective emission reductions to improve air quality in South Asia. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-7641. In: EGU General Assembly 2024, 14-19 April 2024, Vienna.

Kukkonen, J., Fridell, E., Jalkanen, J.-P., Moldanova, J., Ntziachristos, L., Grigoriadis, A., Barmpas, F., Tsegas, G., Maragkidou, A., Sofiev, M., Grönholm, T., Majamäki, E., Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Sokhi, R. S., Tiwari, P. R., Ozdemir, U. A., Zervakis, V., Krasakopoulou, E., Hassellöv, I.-M., Ytreberg, E., Williams, I., Hudson, M., Zapata-Restrepo, L., Hole, L. R., Aghito, M., Breivik, O., Petrovic, M., Rodriguez-Mozaz, S., Ktoris, A., Neophytou, M., Monteiro, A., Russo, M. A., Oikonomou, F., Arampatzi, P., Gondikas, A., Marcomini, A., Giubilato, E., Calgaro, L., Jaakkola, J. J. K., Kiihamäki, S.-P., Aittamaa, R., Broström, G., Hassellöv, M., Tamminen, J., Nicolas, F., Kaitaranta, J., Granberg, M., & Magnusson, K. (2023). Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation of the Environmental and Health Impacts of Shipping Emissions. In: Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXVIII. ITM 2021. Eds. Mensink, C. & Jorba, O., pp. 329-336 Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-12786-1 10.1007/978-3-031-12786-1_44.

IEA (2023). Transitioning India’s Road Transport Sector: Realising climate and air quality benefits. International Energy Agency (IEA) and NITI Aayog

Shu, Y., Hu, J., Zhang, S. , Schöpp, W. , Tang, W., Du, J., Cofala, J., Kiesewetter, G. , Sander, R. , Winiwarter, W. , Klimont, Z. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Amann, M. , Li, H., He, Y., Zhao, J., & Xie, D. (2022). Analysis of the air pollution reduction and climate change mitigation effects of the Three-Year Action Plan for Blue Skies on the “2+26” Cities in China. Journal of Environmental Management 317 e115455. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115455.

Qiu, M. & Borken-Kleefeld, J. (2022). Using snapshot measurements to identify high-emitting vehicles. Environmental Research Letters 17 e044045. 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5c9e.