Maria Shchepashchenko
Researcher
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Maria Shchepashchenko is a researcher in the Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program.She has over 30 years of research and teaching experience in plant physiology, forest ecology, forest certification, and remote sensing.
Her most recent project involvements include: Open-Earth Monitor (OEMC), Mapping Forest Management (NEFM), and the Copernicus Global Land Cover and Tropical Forest Mapping and Monitoring service (LCFM).
Shchepashchenko holds a degree in forestry and a PhD in ecology from the Moscow State Forest University, as well as a Certificate of Associate Professor awarded by the State Committee for Higher Education of the Russian Federation. Before joining IIASA, she worked as a consultant in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
Last update: 05 AUG 2025
Publications
Shchepashchenko, D. , See, L. , Lesiv, M. , McCallum, I. , Fritz, S. , Salk, C., Moltchanova, E., Perger, C., Shchepashchenko, M. , Shvidenko, A., Kovalevskyi, S., Gilitukha, D., Albrecht, F., Kraxner, F., Bun, A., Maksyutov, S., Sokolov, A., Dürauer, M., Obersteiner, M. , Karminov, V., & Ontikov, P. (2015). Global hybrid forest mask for the year 2000. 10.5281/zenodo.5559652.