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
Havlik, P. , Valin, H. , Gusti, M., Schmid, E., Leclère, D., Forsell, N., Herrero, M., Khabarov, N. , Mosnier, A., Cantele, M., & Obersteiner, M. (2015). Climate change impacts and mitigation in the developing world: An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors. Policy Research Working Paper No. WPS 7477. The World Bank Group , Washington, D.C., USA.
Turkovska, O. & Gusti, M. (2015). Forest management algorithm considering assortment structure for geospatial global forest model G4M. Research Journal of Ukrainian National Forestry University 25 (5) 339-345.
Havlik, P. , Valin, H. , Mosnier, A., Forsell, N., Frank, S. , Leclère, D., Palazzo, A. , Ermolieva, T., Gusti, M., Balkovic, J. , Skalsky, R. , Schmid, E., Herrero, M., Kraxner, F., & Obersteiner, M. (2015). Integrated Multi-scale Modeling Framework for Assessment of Land-use Related Challenges under Global Change. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.
Wehkamp, J., Pietsch, S. , Kraxner, F., Reuter, W., Fuß, S., Gusti, M., & Koch, N. (2015). Taking Differences in Institutional Quality into Account in Global Forest Modelling. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.
Gusti, M., Khabarov, N. , & Forsell, N. (2015). Sensitivity of marginal abatement cost curves to variation of G4M parameters. In: Proceedings, 4th International Workshop on Uncertainty in Atmospheric Emissions, 7-9 October 2015, Krakow, Poland. pp. 152-158 Warsaw, Poland: Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences. ISBN 83-894-7557-X