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
Mesfun, S. , Leduc, S., Patrizio, P., Wetterlund, E., Mendoza Ponce, A. , Lammens, T., Staritsky, I., Elbersen, B., Lundgren, J., & Kraxner, F. (2018). Spatio-temporal assessment of integrating intermittent electricity in the EU and Western Balkans power sector under ambitious CO2 emission policies. Energy 164 676-693. 10.1016/j.energy.2018.09.034.
Zetterholm, J., Pettersson, K., Leduc, S., Mesfun, S. , Lundgren, J., & Wetterlund, E. (2018). Resource efficiency or economy of scale: Biorefinery supply chain configurations for co-gasification of black liquor and pyrolysis liquids. Applied Energy 230 912-924. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.09.018.
Mendoza Ponce, A. , Corona-Núñez, R., Kraxner, F., Leduc, S., & Patrizio, P. (2018). Identifying effects of land use cover changes and climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and carbon stocks in Mexico. Global Environmental Change 53 12-23. 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.08.004.
Mandova, H., Leduc, S., Wang, C., Wetterlund, E., Patrizio, P., Gale, W., & Kraxner, F. (2018). Possibilities for CO 2 emission reduction using biomass in European integrated steel plants. Biomass and Bioenergy 115 231-243. 10.1016/j.biombioe.2018.04.021.
Lundmark, R., Forsell, N., Leduc, S., Lundgren, J., Ouraich, I., Pettersson, K., & Wetterlund, E. (2018). Large-scale implementation of biorefineries: New value chains, products and efficient biomass feedstock utilisation. Lulea Tekniska Universtet, IIASA, RISE