Mykola Gusti
Senior Research Scholar
Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Mykola Gusti is a Research Scholar with the Ecosystems Services and Management Program (ESM), having joined IIASA in 2005. He is currently involved in development of the Global Forest Model (G4M) used for analyzing climate mitigation options within land use change and forest management activities.Dr. Gusti graduated from the Lviv Franko State University in 1996, where he completed his diploma thesis on Macromodels with Chebyshev approximation in the field of radiophysics. Following his graduation, he worked as an engineer in the Department of Complex Dynamical Systems Modeling at the Research Institute of Information Infrastructure in Lviv, Ukraine. He defended his PhD dissertation on Modeling the Dynamics of the Carbon Budget of Ecosystems of the Carpathian Region in Ukraine, in 2002, and defended a habilitation thesis on Mathematical Models of Processes of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Sinks in Forestry and Land Use Change, in 2018. From 2001 to 2002, he worked at LSCE, France where he dealt with modeling the transport of trace gases using GCM LMDZ3.3. From 2002 to 2005, he returned to the Research Institute of Information Infrastructure in Lviv, Ukraine to work on the development of geo-information technologies for greenhouse gas inventory and prognosis of the carbon budget in Ukraine.
Dr. Gusti's scientific interests are mathematical modeling and data processing applicable in environment research.
Last update: 09 MAY 2019
Publications
Gusti, M., Bottcher, H., Kindermann, G. , Havlik, P. , & Obersteiner, M. (2012). Simulation of REDD-plus options using IIASA model framework. In: iEMSs 2012: Managing Resources of a Limited Planet, 1-5 July 2012.
Strassburg, B.B.N., Rodrigues, A.S.L., Gusti, M., Balmford, A., Fritz, S. , Obersteiner, M. , Turner, R.K., & Brooks, T.M. (2012). Impacts of incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation on global species extinctions. Nature Climate Change 2 (5) 350-355. 10.1038/nclimate1375.
Kraxner, F., Nordstrom, E.-M., Obersteiner, M. , Havlik, P. , Gusti, M., Kindermann, G. , Fuss, S., & Khabarov, N. (2012). Global Feedstock Scenarios for Bioenergy - Land-Use Change and Trade-Offs. Paper submitted to IEW 2012, the 31st edition of the International Energy Workshop, 19-21 June 2012, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Böttcher, H., Gusti, M., Havlik, P. , Mosnier, A., & Obersteiner, M. (2012). Global forestry emission projections and abatement costs. In: Worlds Within Reach: From Science To Policy - IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference, 24-26 October 2012, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.
Krey, V. , Riahi, K. , Johnson, N., Kolp, P., Lutz, W. , K.C., S., Crespo Cuaresma, J., Havlik, P. , Böttcher, H., Gusti, M., & Obersteiner, M. (2012). The new scenarios process – the way toward more integrated assessment of climate change. In: Worlds Within Reach: From Science To Policy - IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference, 24-26 October 2012, Hofburg Congress Center, Vienna and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.