Robert Sander
Senior Research Software Engineer
Pollution Management Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Robert Sander is a Research Scholar with IIASA’s Energy, Climate, and Environment Program (ECE) Program (previously Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases Program). He first came to IIASA in 2005 as a Research Assistant to work with the former Atmospheric Pollution and Economic Development (APD) Program.Since 1998, Mr. Sander has joined several companies to improve his software skills (hard and software development, client server applications, industrial automation of waste water, and water supply systems).
In 2002 Mr. Sander started studying computer simulation at the University of Applied Science in St. Polten, completing his studies with the receipt of an academic degree and title of Dipl.-Ing. (FH) (equivalent to MSc) in 2006.
At IIASA's Pollution Management (PM) group, he is involved in the design and development of Web and database-oriented parts of the GAINS applications.
Last update: 08 APR 2021
Publications
D'Elia, I., Briganti, G., Kiesewetter, G. , Cappelletti, A., Sander, R. , D'Isidoro, M., Schöpp, W. , & Piersanti, A. (2026). High-resolution Atmospheric Transfer Matrices for policy-oriented air quality assessment in Italy: the new GAINS-Italy model. Atmospheric Environment 382 e122183. 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2026.122183.
Brito, T. , Rafaj, P. , Pauls, A., Zhang, S. , Sander, R. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , & Klimont, Z. (2026). Global hydrogen emissions and air pollutants from the hydrogen economy: scenario analysis with the GAINS model. Environmental Research: Energy 3 (2) e025024. 10.1088/2753-3751/ae69e3.
Meng, W., Nieto, J., Guan, D., Meng, J., Sander, R. , Pöschl, U., Hubacek, K., Su, H., Tao, S., & Cheng, Y. (2026). Rethinking energy transition strategies for the European Union amid rising energy prices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (23) e2609606123. 10.1073/pnas.2609606123.
Purohit, P. , Schöpp, W. , Srivastava, P., Wagner, F. , Klimont, Z. , Kiesewetter, G. , Dey, S., Nygard, J., Tiwari, A., Sharma, M., Amann, M. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Dedring, S., Joshi, P., Lal, H., Ghosh, S., Sander, R. , & Nguyen, B. (2026). Cost-effective mitigation strategies for air quality management in Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal of Environmental Management 405 e129784. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2026.129784.
Brito, T. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Rafaj, P. , Sander, R. , Pauls, A., Zhang, S. , & Klimont, Z. (2025). Evaluating Hydrogen Emissions from Incomplete Combustion: Historical Trends and the Role of Policy. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18263. In: EGU General Assembly 2025, 27 April-02 May 2025, Vienna.