Stefan Frank
Senior Research Scholar
Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Stefan Frank joined the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in January 2011. Since then, he has contributed to the development of the institute’s Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM) and was the main developer of the European version of the model, which subsequently became one of the reference tools used by the European Commission for energy- and climate policy related impact assessments on the land-use sector.His main research topics focus on land-based mitigation, bioenergy potentials, and foresight exercises including synergies or trade-offs with the Sustainable Development Goals. He is also coordinating and further developing the integration of the GLOBIOM model with Integrated assessment Models for the comprehensive economy-wide assessment of ambitious climate stabilization pathways, which regularly underpin the foresight chapters in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s reports. He is currently coordinating activities around GLOBIOM code consolidation with a view on making it openly accessible. He is the principal investigator on several international EU research and tender projects, where he leads the IIASA Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group’s contribution to key European Commission policy impact assessments such as the 2030 Energy and Climate targets or the EU’s long-term strategy towards carbon neutrality.
Frank holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna and a master’s degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Last update: 09 DEC 2021
Publications
Forsell, N., Havlik, P. , Korosuo, A., Kraxner, F., Frank, S. , Valin, H. , Gusti, M., Zhang, W., Nordin, A., Lunmark, T., & Obersteiner, M. (2015). Global harvesting of wood under different socio-economic and climate mitigation scenarios. In: 17th IBFRA Conference, Towards A New Era of Forest Science in the Boreal Region, 24-29 May 2015, Rovaniemi, Finland.
Schepaschenko, D. , Kraxner, F., See, L. , Fuss, S., McCallum, I. , Fritz, S. , Perger, C., Shvidenko, A., Kindermann, G. , Frank, S. , Tum, M., Schmid, E., Balkovic, J. , & Guenther, K. (2015). Global biomass information: from data generation to application. In: Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Eds. Yan, Jinyue, Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 9781118991978 10.1002/9781118991978.
Valin, H. , Peters, D., van den Berg, M., Frank, S. , Havlik, P. , Forsell, N., Hamelinck, C., Pirker, J., Mosnier, A., Balkovic, J. , Schmidt, E., Dürauer, M., & Di Fulvio, F. (2015). The land use change impact of biofuels consumed in the EU: Quantification of area and greenhouse gas impacts. ECOFYS Netherlands B.V. , Utrecht, Netherlands. BIENL13120.
Frank, S. (2014). Biokraftstoffe und Nachhaltigkeitskriterien (Biofuels and Sustainability Criteria). [[Biobased Future]] 2:8, BIOENERGY 2020 GmbH (July 2014)
Havlik, P. , Valin, H. , Herrero, M., Obersteiner, M. , Schmid, E., Rufino, M.C., Mosnier, A., Thornton, P.K., Bottcher, H., Conant, R.T., Frank, S. , Fritz, S. , Fuss, S., Kraxner, F., & Notenbaert, A. (2014). Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (10) 3709-3714. 10.1073/pnas.1308044111.