Volker Krey
Research Group Leader and Principal Research Scholar
Sustainable Service Systems Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Research Group Leader and Principal Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Volker Krey leads the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program.
His main fields of scientific interest include the integrated assessment of climate change and the link to a broader suite of sustainable development objectives such as improved air quality, sustainable water use, and energy access, as well as the interaction with material cycles via circular economy strategies. His work focuses on the development and application of integrated assessment models (IAMs) with different regional focuses (subnational to global scale) and time horizons. Over the past decade, he has been overseeing the development of the MESSAGEix model at IIASA and its recent release as an open source tool. As a co-chair of the scientific working group on data protocols and management of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC), he has significantly contributed to improving transparency and data sharing in the IAM community.
Krey has served as a Lead Author of multiple IPCC Reports, including the 5th and 6th Assessment Reports of Working Group III, and the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. He has coauthored more than 120 publications that have been cited well over 20,000 times in total. From 2018 to 2024 he has been acknowledged as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in their annual rankings.
Last update: 19 NOV 2025
Publications
Guo, F. , van Ruijven, B. , Zakeri, B. , Zhang, S., Chen, X., Liu, C., Yang, F., Krey, V. , Riahi, K. , Huang, H., & Zhou, Y. (2022). Implications of intercontinental renewable electricity trade for energy systems and emissions. Nature Energy 10.1038/s41560-022-01136-0.
Battiston, S., Monasterolo, I., van Ruijven, B. , & Krey, V. (2022). The NACE – CPRS – IAM mapping: A tool to support climate risk analysis of financial portfolio using NGFS scenarios. SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4223606.
Awais, M. , Vinca, A. , Byers, E. , Fricko, O. , Frank, S. , Satoh, Y., Krey, V. , & Riahi, K. (2022). Global scenarios of climate impact on sustainable development objectives across water, energy, land sectors. In: Forum on Scenarios for Climate and Societal Futures, 20-22 June 2022, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg.
Vinca, A. , Awais, M. , Byers, E. , Fricko, O. , Frank, S. , Satoh, Y., Krey, V. , & Riahi, K. (2022). Including water, energy and land climate impacts and adaptation strategies in IAM scenarios. In: Scenarios Forum 2022, June 2022.
Zakeri, B. , Hunt, J. , Laldjebaev, M., Krey, V. , Vinca, A. , Parkinson, S. , & Riahi, K. (2022). Role of energy storage in energy and water security in Central Asia. Journal of Energy Storage 50 e104587. 10.1016/j.est.2022.104587.