Peter Rafaj
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Pollution Management Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
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Biography
Peter Rafaj joined the Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases (AIR) Program (formerly Mitigation of Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases Program) as a Research Scholar in October 2005. His research interests include the development and application of the Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies (GAINS) model for co-benefits assessment involving linkages with various global and regional energy models. His expertise comprises decomposition analysis of emission trends, as well as the implementation of the GAINS methodology and databases for scenarios of air emissions and mercury. He contributed to numerous mitigation policy analyses in Europe, Asia and worldwide.Before joining IIASA, Dr. Rafaj worked as a research assistant at the energy economics group of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland, with a focus on the modeling of long-term climate policy scenarios. He contributed to the research tasks of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research on Climate (NCCR Climate). Between 1995 and 2001, Dr. Rafaj worked at several agencies in Slovakia, focusing on the environmental impact evaluation of the energy sector. Dr. Rafaj graduated in applied and environmental geophysics from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1995, and also studied environmental management at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2005 he was awarded his doctoral degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
Last update: 15 APR 2016
Publications
Amann, M. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Cofala, J., Hettelingh, J.-P., Heyes, C. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Holland, M., Kiesewetter, G. , Klimont, Z. , Rafaj, P. , Posch, M. , Sander, R. , Schoepp, W. , Wagner, F. , & Winiwarter, W. (2014). The final policy scenarios of the EU Clean Air Policy Package. XO-14-072
Rafaj, P. , Bertok, I., Cofala, J., & Schoepp, W. (2013). Scenarios of global mercury emissions from anthropogenic sources. Atmospheric Environment 79 472-479. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.06.042.
Rafaj, P. , Cofala, J., Kuenen, J., Wyrwa, A., & Zysk, J. (2013). Modeling impacts of European renewable energy policies on the emissions of mercury. In: EnviroInfo 2013 - Environmental Informatics and Renewable Energies, 2-4 September 2013.
Rafaj, P. , Schoepp, W. , Russ, P., Heyes, C. , & Amann, M. (2013). Co-benefits of post-2012 global climate mitigation policies. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (6) 801-824. 10.1007/s11027-012-9390-6.
Purohit, P. , Munir, T., & Rafaj, P. (2013). Scenario analysis of strategies to control air pollution in Pakistan. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 10 (2) 77-91. 10.1080/1943815X.2013.782877.