Peter Rafaj
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Pollution Management Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
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
Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Winiwarter, W. , Purohit, P. , Gomez-Sanabria, A. , Rafaj, P. , Schöpp, W. , & Borken-Kleefeld, J. (2018). Non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28 from 2005 to 2070: GAINS model methodology. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA
Gomez Sanabria, A. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Rafaj, P. , & Schöpp, W. (2018). Carbon in global waste and wastewater flows – its potential as energy source under alternative future waste management regimes. Advances in Geosciences 45 105-113. 10.5194/adgeo-45-105-2018.
Bhanarkar, A.D., Purohit, P. , Rafaj, P. , Amann, M. , Bertok, I., Cofala, J., Rao, P.S., Vardhan, B.H., Kiesewetter, G. , Sander, R. , Schöpp, W. , Majumdar, D., Srivastava, A., Deshmukh, S., Kawarti, A., & Kumar, R. (2018). Managing future air quality in megacities: Co-benefit assessment for Delhi. Atmospheric Environment 186 158-177. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.05.026.
Amann, M. , Anderl, M., Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Cofala, J., Heyes, C. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Kiesewetter, G. , Klimont, Z. , Moosmann, L., Rafaj, P. , Sander, R. , Schöpp, W. , Tista, M., Wagner, F. , & Winiwarter, W. (2018). Progress towards the achievement of the EU's air quality and emissions objectives. IIASA , Laxenburg, Austria.
McCollum, D., Zhou, W., Bertram, C., de Boer, H.-S., Bosetti, V., Busch, S., Despres, J., Drouet, L., Emmerling, J., Fay, M., Fricko, O. , Fujimori, S. , Gidden, M. , Harmsen, M., Huppmann, D. , Iyer, G., Krey, V. , Kriegler, E., Nicolas, C., Pachauri, S. , Parkinson, S. , Poblete Cazenave, M., Rafaj, P. , Rao, N. , Rozenberg, J., Schmitz, A., Schöpp, W. , van Vuuren, D., & Riahi, K. (2018). Energy investment needs for fulfilling the Paris Agreement and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Energy 3 (7) 589-599. 10.1038/s41560-018-0179-z.