Juraj Balkovic
Senior Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
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Juraj Balkovic first joined IIASA in March 2012 and is currently a research scholar in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program, where he also leads the Agro-Environmental Systems team. He has over 15-years’ experience with soil and plant science, and research at the national and international levels. His research includes land use, landscape, and biophysical crop modeling at regional and global scales, focusing on the productivity of global agricultural systems under climate change and management interventions, soil health, and ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycles. He has been the principal investigator of the European Commission-funded project IMPACT2C, aiming at understanding a climate change of 2°C and the corresponding impacts, risks, and adaptation in Europe. He is also the principal investigator of a European Commission-funded project called AlfaWetlands, which focuses on the restoration potential of European wetlands.Balkovic received his master’s degree in 1999 and his doctorate in 2003, both from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. The latter in soil science. Before joining IIASA, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University and as a research scholar at the Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute in Slovakia.
Last update: 02 FEB 2023
Publications
McGrath, M.J., Petrescu, A.M.R., Peylin, P., Andrew, R.M., Matthews, B., Dentener, F., Balkovič, J. , Bastrikov, V., Becker, M., Broquet, G., Ciais, P., Fortems-Cheiney, A., Ganzenmüller, R., Grassi, G., Harris, I., Jones, M., Knauer, J., Kuhnert, M., Monteil, G., Munassar, S., Palmer, P.I., Peters, G.P., Qiu, C., Schelhaas, M.-J., Tarasova, O., Vizzarri, M., Winkler, K., Balsamo, G., Berchet, A., Briggs, P., Brockmann, P., Chevallier, F., Conchedda, G., Crippa, M., Dellaert, S.N.C., Denier van der Gon, H.A.C., Filipek, S., Friedlingstein, P., Fuchs, R., Gauss, M., Gerbig, C., Guizzardi, D., Günther, D., Houghton, R.A., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Lauerwald, R., Lerink, B., Luijkx, I.T., Moulas, G., Muntean, M., Nabuurs, G.-J., Paquirissamy, A., Perugini, L., Peters, W., Pilli, R., Pongratz, J., Regnier, P., Scholze, M., Serengil, Y., Smith, P., Solazzo, E., Thompson, R.L., Tubiello, F.N., Vesala, T., & Walther, S. (2023). The consolidated European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2020. Earth System Science Data 15 (10) 4295-4370. 10.5194/essd-15-4295-2023.
Lutz, W. & Pachauri, S. (2023). Systems Analysis for Sustainable Wellbeing. 50 years of IIASA research, 40 years after the Brundtland Commission, contributing to the post-2030 Global Agenda. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 10.5281/zenodo.8214208.
Ermolieva, T., Skalský, R. , Balkovič, J. , Folberth, C. , Havlik, P. , Derci Augustynczik, A.L., Frank, S. , Kahil, T. , Wang, G., & Komendantova, N. (2023). Robust meta-model for investigating crop yields and Soil Organic Carbon dynamics and probability distributions depending on land use practices, soil characteristics and climate change: Insights for soil health preservation and Food security. In: Soil Physics and Healthy Cropland Cultivation, 4-7 August, 2023, Hangzhou, China.
De Vos, K., Janssens, C., Jacobs, L., Campforts, B., Boere, E., Kozicka, M. , Havlik, P. , Folberth, C. , Balkovič, J. , Maertens, M., & Govers, G. (2023). Rice availability and stability in Africa under future socio-economic development and climatic change. Nature Food 10.1038/s43016-023-00770-5.
Ermolieva, T., Zagorodny, A., Bogdanov, V.L., Wang, G., Havlik, P. , Rovenskaya, E. , Komendantova, N. , Kahil, T. , Ortiz-Partida, J.- P., Balkovič, J. , Skalský, R. , & Folberth, C. (2023). Consistent linkage of distributed food, water, energy, environmental (FWEE) models: perspectives of data and modeling platform for integrated FWEE security NEXUS analysis and planning. In: EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April 2023, Vienna.