Oliver Fricko
Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment
Research Scholar
Sustainable Service Systems Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment
Biography
Oliver Fricko joined IIASA in 2012, and is currently working as a research scholar in the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change research group (IACC) as part of the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) program.He is one of the core developers of the MESSAGEix framework and a central modeler of IACC, involved in numerous multi-model inter-comparison studies, including the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF-30 and EMF-33) as well as projects funded by the European Commission (ADVANCE, CD-Links, ENGAGE).
Mr. Fricko established a soft-link between the IACC global energy model (MESSAGE) and the IIASA land-use model GLOBIOM. He has further contributed towards updating the existing linkage to the IIASA GAINS model to improve the representation of air-pollution. He has also enhanced the energy model to account for energy related water use and to incorporate short-term national policies, such as the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), based on the Paris Agreement, in MESSAGE to better understand their implications on long-term climate mitigation scenarios.
Mr. Fricko has collaborated with Indian institutions such as NITI-Aayog (the National Institution for Transforming India) and with TERI-University, in both cases to develop national energy models for India based on the MESSAGEix framework. Currently he assists with the coordination and implementation of IIASA related work with India in the SPIPA project, which aims to support EU-India collaboration on the development of modelling capacities to improve the quality of modeling tools, and integrated modeling analysis frameworks developed by modeling teams in India.
Last update: 24 FEB 2021
Publications
Vinca, A. , Awais, M. , Riahi, K. , Byers, E. , Fricko, O. , Frank, S. , Satoh, Y., & Krey, V. (2022). Including water, energy and land climate impacts and adaptation strategies in IAM scenarios. In: IAMC 2022, December 2022.
Awais, M. , Vinca, A. , Byers, E. , Fricko, O. , Frank, S. , Satoh, Y., Krey, V. , & Riahi, K. (2022). Global scenarios of climate impact on sustainable development objectives across water, energy, land sectors. In: Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures, 20-22 June 2022, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg.
Vinca, A. , Awais, M. , Byers, E. , Fricko, O. , Frank, S. , Satoh, Y., Krey, V. , & Riahi, K. (2022). Including water, energy and land climate impacts and adaptation strategies in IAM scenarios. In: Scenarios Forum 2022, June 2022.
Awais, M. , Vinca, A. , Byers, E. , Fricko, O. , Frank, S. , Satoh, Y., Krey, V. , & Riahi, K. (2022). Integrating climate impacts across energy, water, land systems within a global framework. In: EGU General Assembly 2022, 23-27 May 2022, Vienna.
Vinca, A. , Awais, M. , Byers, E. , Fricko, O. , Frank, S. , Satoh, Y., Krey, V. , & Riahi, K. (2022). The role of multi-sector climate impacts in achieving water, energy, and land SDGs. In: EGU General Assembly 2022, 23-27 May 2022, Vienna.