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
Franklin, O. , Krasovskiy, A. , Kraxner, F., Platov, A., Schepaschenko, D. , Leduc, S., & Mattsson, B. (2020). Moose or spruce: A systems analysis model for managing conflicts between moose and forestry in Sweden. bioRxiv 10.1101/2020.08.11.241372. (Submitted)
Meng, Y., Liu, J., Leduc, S., Mesfun, S. , Kraxner, F., Mao, G., Qi, W., & Wang, Z. (2020). Hydropower production benefits more from 1.5°C than 2°C climate scenario. Water Resources Research 56 (5) e2019WR025519. 10.1029/2019WR025519.
Patrizio, P., Leduc, S., Kraxner, F., Fuß, S., Kindermann, G. , Spokas, K., Wetterlund, E., Lundgren, J., Yowargana, P., & Obersteiner, M. (2019). Killing two birds with one stone: a negative emissions strategy for a soft landing of the US coal sector. In: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage. Eds. Pires, J.C. & da Cunha Goncalves, A.L., pp. 219-236 Academic Press. ISBN 9780128166000 10.1016/B978-0-12-816229-3.00011-9.
Mandová, H., Patrizio, P., Leduc, S., Kjärstad, J., Wang, C., Wetterlund, E., Kraxner, F., & Gale, W. (2019). Achieving carbon-neutral iron and steelmaking in Europe through the deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. Journal of Cleaner Production 218 118-129. 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.247.