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
Shvidenko, A., Schepaschenko, D. , Bottcher, H., Gusti, M., Kraxner, F., Obersteiner, M. , & Leduc, S. (2011). The Role of ECA's Forest Resources in Climate Change Mitigation. Final Report submitted to The World Bank on Contract #7158909 (September 2011)
Fuss, S., Gusti, M., Kraxner, F., Aoki, K., & Szolgayova, J. (2011). Boreal forests as a carbon sink: A real options perspective. In: Boreal Forests in a Changing World: Challenges and Needs for Action. Proceedings of the international conference IBFRA, 15-21 August 2011.
Bottcher, H., Gusti, M., Mosnier, A., & Havlik, P. (2011). Global forestry emissions projections and abatement costs. Final Report submitted to The Secretary of State of Energy and Climate Change, London, UK (August 2011)
Gusti, M. & Kindermann, G. (2011). An approach to modeling landuse change and forest management on a global scale. In: Proceedings, 1st International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2011). pp. 180-185 Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands: SCITE Press. ISBN 978-989-8425-78-2 10.5220/0003607501800185.
Bottcher, H., Verkerk, H., Gusti, M., Havlik, P. , & Schneider, U. (2011). Analysis of potential and costs of LULUCF use by EU Member States. Final Report submitted to the European Commission - DG Climate Action, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria (May 2011)