Sylvain Leduc

Senior Research Scholar

Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group

Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

Biography

Sylvain Leduc joined the former IIASA Forestry program, now the Ecosystems Services Management program (ESM) in 2007. Dr. Leduc is heading the development of the IIASA BeWhere model and the BeWhere research group (wwww.iiasa.ac.at/bewhere) within the Center for Landscape Resilience & Management (CLR). The BeWhere model is a techno-economic model which optimizes the geographical location of renewable energy systems. The model has been applied in many research areas including forest-based bioenergy, algae production, solar or wind energy, negative emissions technologies, and the electrification of urban public transport systems. Recently, it has been the central model of the FP-7 project S2Biom and the Alpine Space project recharge.greeen, and is presently applied in the H2020 project BECOOL project at the European scale. Dr. Leduc has supervised more than 20 summer students who contributed in the development of the BeWhere model. Most of them still collaborate with the IIASA BeWhere team, and Dr. Leduc is coordinating the harmonization of the different BeWhere model versions used globally.

Dr. Leduc graduated in 2000, from l’École Supérieure de l’Énergie et des Matériaux (ESEM, now Polytech'Orleans), France. He then worked and studied at the Division of Energy Engineering at the University of Technology of Luleå (LTU), Sweden, as a Research Engineer, where he investigated individual and industrial wood boilers with Computational Fluid Dynamics and energy systems modeling. In 2009, he received his doctoral degree which he completed in collaboration with LTU and IIASA. The title of his thesis was: "Development of an Optimization Model for the Location of Biofuel Production Plants".



Last update: 10 APR 2019

Publications

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Mesfun, S., Sanchez, D.L., Leduc, S., & Kraxner, F. (2015). Power-to-gas and Power-to-liquids for Managing Renewable Electricity Intermittency in the Alpine Region. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.

Tan, S.T., Leduc, S., & Kraxner, F. (2015). Renewable Energy Production from Municipal Solid Waste to Mitigate Climate Change: A Spatially Explicit Assessment for Malaysia. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.

Serrano Leon, H., Kraxner, F., & Leduc, S. (2015). Spatial Harmonizing of Protected Areas and Renewable Energy Production. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.

Leduc, S., Kraxner, F., Serrano Leon, H., Vettorato, D., Garegnani, G., Poljanec, A., Hastik, R., Geitner, C., Berchtold-Domig, M., Ciolli, M., Geri, F., Grilli, G., Gros, J., Kralj, T., Sacchelli, S., Vrscaj, B., & Zambelli, P. (2015). Decision support systems. In: Sustainable Energy Planning in the Alps. A handbook for experts and decision makers. Eds. Svadlenak-Gomez, K., Tramberend, P., & Walzer, C., pp. 29-59 Vienna, Austria: recharge.green project. ISBN 978-3-200-04346-6

Kraxner, F., Fuss, S., Leduc, S., Yowargana, P., Kindermann, G. , Pietsch, S. , & Hetland, J. (2015). Driving clean energy and green economy with the help of forest-based bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) - A case study on Indonesia. In: XIV World Forestry Congress, 7-11 September 2015, Durban, South Africa.