Maria Adelia Widijanto

Biography

Maria Adelia Widijanto is a researcher in the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group of the Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. Her research focuses on analyzing ecological performance to support sustainable and equitable landscape management. Her interests include tropical forest ecology, remote sensing, and software development, particularly for decision-support tools that enable evidence-based environmental management. Widijanto’s work aims to make scientific knowledge and analytical tools more accessible to a broad range of people.

Widijanto holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia. Her bachelor’s thesis explored simulations of tropical forest eco-physiological changes using a process-based model. She later completed a master’s degree in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Program in Global Forestry (University of Copenhagen, Dresden University of Technology, and AgroParisTech), where her thesis reviewed the use of natural climate solution metrics across tropical regions.

Before joining IIASA, Widijanto worked at CIFOR-ICRAF Indonesia as a Natural Resources Management Tools Developer. In this role, she contributed to developing a natural resource management tool to support land-use scenario development for ex-ante analyses and delivered training on the use of these tools.


Last update: 20 MAR 2026