Ping Yowargana

Ping Yowargana joined IIASA in 2014 after finishing his tenure as energy sector coordinator for the Indonesian President's Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4). At IIASA, his work focuses on enhancing the policy relevance of scientific assessments in the fields of nature-based solutions and sustainable energy in the tropics. He is co-principal investigator of the RESTORE+ project, which is among the most ambitious externally funded projects at IIASA with multifaceted objectives surrounding the topic of forest and landscape restoration.

Ping leads RESTORE+ activities in Indonesia where the project team are working on, among others, building mobile and web-based platforms for participatory restoration potential assessment, estimating biophysical potential of agroforestry and forest restoration options, assessing socio-ecological trade-offs of restoration as a land use option, and supporting national policymakers in formulating sustainable land use policies. He also leads the work on spatially explicit power sector assessment for Indonesia, which aims at analytical integration between land use and energy system modeling.

He holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Tsinghua University and a master's degree in socio-ecological economics and policy from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.


Last update: 27 OCT 2021

Mohd Idris, M.N., Hashim, H., Leduc, S., Yowargana, P., Kraxner, F., & Woon, K.S. (2021). Deploying Bioenergy for Decarbonizing Malaysian Energy Sectors and Alleviating Renewable Energy Poverty. Energy 232, e120967. 10.1016/j.energy.2021.120967.

Mohd Idris, M.N., Leduc, S., Yowargana, P., Hashim, H., & Kraxner, F. (2021). Spatio-temporal assessment of the impact of intensive palm oil-based bioenergy deployment on cross-sectoral energy decarbonization. Applied Energy 285, E116460. 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116460.

Idris, M.N.M., Leduc, S., Yowargana, P., & Kraxner, F. (2020). Supplementary material to "Spatio-temporal assessment on the impact of palm oil-based bioenergy deployment on cross-sectoral energy decarbonization".

Danylo, O., Hadi, H., Zulkarnain, T., Joshi, N., Ekadinata, A., Sturn, T., Mohamad, F., Goib, B., et al. (2020). Building up local knowledge on restoration: lessons learnt from organizing a set of crowdsourcing campaigns. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19043. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2020, 4-8 May 2020, Vienna, Austria.

Krasovskii, A. , Hu, X., Yowargana, P., Schepaschenko, D. , & Hofhansl, F. (2019). Modeling wildfire dynamics using FLAM coupled with deep learning methods. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, USA.

Patrizio, P., Leduc, S., Kraxner, F., Fuß, S., Kindermann, G. , Spokas, K., Wetterlund, E., Lundgren, J., et al. (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 978012816600010.1016/B978-0-12-816229-3.00011-9.

Moorthy, I., Joshi, N., Zulkarnain, M.T., Ekadinata, A., Sturn, T., Mohamad, F., Goib, B., Yowargana, P., et al. (2019). Validating maps of land cover and land degradation with citizen science and mobile gaming. In: XXV IUFRO World Congress, 29 September-5 October 2019, Curtitiba, Brazil.

Patrizio, P., Leduc, S., Kraxner, F., Fuß, S., Kindermann, G. , Mesfun, S. , Spokas, K., Mendoza Ponce, A. , et al. (2018). Reducing US coal emissions can boost employment. Joule 2 (12), 2633-2648. 10.1016/j.joule.2018.10.004.

Krasovskii, A. , Khabarov, N. , Pirker, J., Kraxner, F., Yowargana, P., Schepaschenko, D. , & Obersteiner, M. (2018). Modeling Burned Areas in Indonesia: The FLAM Approach. Forests 9 (7), e437. 10.3390/f9070437.

Hadi, , Krasovskii, A. , Maus, V. , Yowargana, P., Pietsch, S. , & Rautiainen, M. (2018). Monitoring Deforestation in Rainforests Using Satellite Data: A Pilot Study from Kalimantan, Indonesia. Forests 9 (7), e389. 10.3390/f9070389.

Hadi, H., Krasovskii, A. , Maus, V. , Yowargana, P., Pietsch, S. , & Rautiainen, M. (2018). The potential of Landsat time series to characterize historical dynamic and monitor future disturbances in human-modified rainforests of Indonesia. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, 9-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Mosnier, A., Boere, E., Reumann, A., Yowargana, P., Pirker, J., Havlik, P. , & Pacheo, P. (2018). Suitability map for industrial-scale oil palm cultivation for Indonesia.

Mosnier, A., Boere, E., Reumann, A., Yowargana, P., Pirker, J., Havlik, P. , & Pacheco, P. (2017). Palm oil and likely futures: Assessing the potential impacts of zero deforestation commitments and a moratorium on large-scale oil palm plantations in Indonesia. CIFOR Infobrief (177) 10.17528/cifor/006468.

Mesfun, S. , Leduc, S., Patrizio, P., Yowargana, P., & Kraxner, F. (2017). Spatio-temporal Assessment of Integrating Intermittent Electricity in the EU Power Sector. In: SEEP2017, 27-30 June 2017, Bled, Slovenia.

Kraxner, F., Leduc, S., Serrano Leon, H., Fuß, S., Patrizio, P., & Yowargana, P. (2016). Expanding renewable energy within the Alpine ecological network. In: Alpine Nature 2030 Creating [ecological] connectivity for generations to come. Eds. Plassmann, G., Kohler, Y., Badura, M. & Walzer, C., pp. 93-97 Berlin: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB). ISBN 978-3-00-053702-8

Hetland, J., Yowargana, P., Leduc, S., & Kraxner, F. (2016). Carbon-negative emissions: Systemic impacts of biomass conversion: A case study on CO2 capture and storage options. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 49, 330-342. 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.03.017.

Leduc, S., Patrizio, P., Yowargana, P., & Kraxner, F. (2016). An optimal renewable energy mix for Indonesia. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, 17–22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.

Kraxner, F., Leduc, S., Yowargana, P., Shchepashchenko, D. , Fuss, S., Havlik, P. , & Mosnier, A. (2015). Negative Emissions and Interactions with other Mitigation Options: A Bottom-up Methodology for Indonesia. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.

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.

Kraxner, F., Fuss, S., Leduc, S., Kindermann, G. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Shvidenko, A., Yowargana, P., & Aoki, K. (2014). Principles of BECCS - regional and national case studies: assessing the potentials. In: Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research. pp. p. 267 Proceedings of the XXIV IUFRO World Congress, 5-11 October 2014, Salt Lake City.