Merle Quade

Biography

Merle Quade (she/her) has joined IIASA in March 2024 as a researcher at the Sustainable Service Systems Research Group in the Energy, Climate and Environment Research Program. Here, her work includes investigating the potential of wood-based constructions as a climate mitigation strategy, with a focus on interdisciplinary perspectives. In addition, she is contributing to the EU-funded GeoEngineering and Negative Emissions Pathways in Europe (GENIE) project, by exploring the efficiency of various carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods with focus on the permanence of storage pools. She is also actively involved in the Urban Futures Hub initiative, which addresses the role of transforming cities in leading climate change mitigation and adaptation from the local to the global scale.

She holds a master's degree in Global Change Geography from Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Her thesis developed an approach to investigate the impacts of physical connectivity between two distant tipping elements in the Earth system from an interdisciplinary perspective. Throughout her studies, she collaborated intensively with the Urban Geography Program and Gender Studies.

She holds a particular interest in the intersections of human-environment relationships, the complexity of Earth system science, and the feedback mechanisms related to climate adaptation and mitigation strategies at both local and global levels.

Last update: 10 JUL 2024