Ping Yowargana
Senior Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Ping Yowargana is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on enhancing the policy relevance of scientific assessments in the fields of nature-based solutions and sustainable energy. His research aims to bridge the gap between scientific findings and practical application in policymaking. Ping translates complex scientific data into actionable insights for decision makers, ensuring that his work contributes to effective policies and initiatives that promote sustainability at the national, regional, and global levels.At IIASA, he leads large-scale initiatives that address complex environmental issues such as the RESTORE+ project, which is among the institute’s most ambitious externally funded projects with multifaceted objectives around the topic of forest and landscape restoration. He also leads the work on equitable power sector decarbonization for Indonesia, which aims at analytical integration between land use and energy system modeling.
Ping first joined IIASA in 2014 after finishing his tenure as a Director overseeing the delivery of energy sector priorities for the President's Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight of Indonesia (UKP4). He holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Tsinghua University and a master's degree in socio-ecological economics and policy from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Last update: 11 OCT 2024
Publications
Hadi, H., Yowargana, P., Zulkarnain, M.T., Mohamad, F., Goib, B.K., Hultera, Sturn, T., Karner, M., Dürauer, M., See, L. , Fritz, S. , Hendriatna, A., Nursafingi, A., Melati, D.N., Prasetya, F.V., Carolita, I., Kiswanto, Firdaus, M.I., Rosidi, M., & Kraxner, F. (2022). A national-scale land cover reference dataset from local crowdsourcing initiatives in Indonesia. 10.6084/m9.figshare.20278341.v1.
Mohd Idris, M.N., Hashim, H., Leduc, S., Yowargana, P., Kraxner, F., & Woon, K.S. (2021). Deploying Bioenergy for Decarbonizing Malaysian Energy Sectors and Alleviating Renewable Energy Poverty. Energy 232 e120967. 10.1016/j.energy.2021.120967.
Mohd Idris, M.N., Leduc, S., Yowargana, P., Hashim, H., & Kraxner, F. (2021). Spatio-temporal assessment of the impact of intensive palm oil-based bioenergy deployment on cross-sectoral energy decarbonization. Applied Energy 285 E116460. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116460.