Sören Lindner
Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Sören Lindner is a research scholar in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. His research interest lies in understanding the socioeconomic implications of global food and land use transitions, in particular for the agricultural sector. He develops bottom-up sectoral models and links them with larger integrated assessment models to advance the understanding how local- and sector-specific details affect policies that foster global sustainable transition.At IIASA, Sören Lindner is involved in two projects:
As part of the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy (FABLE) Consortium, he works on further developing the agricultural costing model, a country-based cost calculator for agricultural and livestock production integrated in the FABLE calculator. The work is motivated by quantifying macro-economic costs for the agriculture sector associated with different diet scenarios and transition pathways. He is also working on integrating a global health model into the FABLE calculator that allows the quantification of non-communicable diseases based on different dietary pathways.
As part of the Land-use Planning and Financial Innovation to Increase Mexico's Resilience to Climate Change (SABERES) project, Lindner is developing a novel economic financing model for smallholder farmers and different agro-ecological management practices in Mexico. This model is integrated into a larger multi-scale land use planning tool for collective decision-making. His work in this field is aimed at improving the understanding of the transitional risks for smallholder farmers, given their particular vulnerability to climate change.
Prior to his position at IIASA, Lindner worked at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy. As part of that role, he worked mainly with the CAPRI model, while leading a project focusing on emissions from land-use change.
Lindner holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from the University of Cambridge and is Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).
Last update: 26 AUG 2024
Publications
Orduña-Cabrera, F. , Rios Ochoa, J.A. , Frank, F. , Lindner, S., Sandoval-Gastelum, M., Obersteiner, M. , & Javalera Rincón, V. (2025). Short-Term Forecasting Arabica Coffee Cherry Yields by Seq2Seq over LSTM for Smallholder Farmers. Sustainability 17 (9) p. 3888. 10.3390/su17093888.