Curriculum Vitae

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ph.D. in Ecological Economics  Dec. 2000
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute M.Sc. in Economics  Dec. 1998
University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria B.A. in Business Administration (Magister)  Jun.  1991

 

2020-present  Visiting Professor, Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

2019-present  Chair of the Board of the Energy Sustainability Research Institute (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

2018-present  Chair of Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

2018-present  Professor, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

2011-2018       Professor, Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

2015-2016       Visiting Professor, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

2014-2017       Visiting Professor, China Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2010-2013       Senior Research Fellow, Department for Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK

2006-2010       Reader (Associate Professor) in Sustainable Development, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK

2002-2006       Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School for the Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

1999-present  Affiliated Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

2006-present  Member of the scientific organizing committee, International Input-Output Conference

2004-2019       Council member, International Input-Output Association (IIOA)

2004-present  Member of the scientific advisory board, International Conferences on Eco-balance

2002                Visiting scholar, Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria.

2001                Visiting assistant professor, Western Maryland College (now McDaniel), Westminster, USA.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals ~250 Book chapters in edited volumes 43
Books 3 i-10 index 254
Books, special issues, and proceedings edited 14 H-index Google Scholar 101
Papers in PNAS, Nature, Science, and Cell research journals ~40 Citations in Google Scholar 41,000+

 

2024 EU Horizon-China MOST: Pathways towards Carbon Neutrality for Climate, Environment, Health and Socio-Economic Co-Benefits. (PANTHEON). Coordinator, PI; total 4m/RUG share about 800k; Award period: 01/03/2024-28/02/2028.
2023 H2020 European Research Area Network (ERA-NET) Sino-European call: Improved urban mobility toward climate neutrality under new working habits and transport modes. PI: Total Funding €800,000/RUGshare €350,000. Award period: 01/05/2023-30/04/2026
2023 HORIZON-WIDERA-2022: PHAETHON Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence for Intelligent, Efficient and Sustainable Energy Solutions. Co-PI: €15,000,000 + 30,000000 co-funding. Award Period: 1/09/2023-30/08/2029.
2021 Greenpeace Germany: Assessing the spillover effects of the EU’s Green Deal. PI: €100,000.
2017-2019 National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA): Linking Rural Decision-Makers with Local
Churches to Build Coastal Resilience to a Changing Climate.  NOAA, Coastal and Ocean Climate Adaptations.  Award
number NA17OAR4310248. Co-PI. Total Funding: $300,000.  Award Period:   09/01/2017-08/31/2019.
2017-2020 NASA: Integrating remote sensing observations with NASA’s GEOS-5 modeling framework in support
of retrospective analyses and seasonal prediction of biosphere-atmosphere CO2 flux. Co-investigator. Award period:
08/02/2017-08/01/2020. Total Funding: 599,924       
2017-2020   NASA: Agricultural Land Use Change in Central and Northeast Thailand: Effects on Biomass Emissions,
Soil Quality and Rural Livelihoods. Co-investigator. Total Funding: $675,000.
2017-2021 Department for International Development (DFID, UK): Modeling Early Risk Indicators to Identify
Malnutrition (MERIAM). (co-PI): $4,000,000.
2017-2020   NASA: Understanding Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and their Land Change Dimensions:
Socio-Environmental Synthesis of the Global ‘Rush’ for Land. Program: NASA Roses.   (co-PI): $747,414.
2017-2018   Inter-American Development Bank: “Climate risk: managing distributional impacts of carbon taxes” (co-PI: $ 60,000)
2016-2020

EU-Horizon2020, “Guiding European Policy toward a low-carbon economy. Modelling Energy System
Development under Environmental and Socioeconomic constraints”. (co-PI). H2020-LCE-2015-2/691287. $4,330,000
2016-2018   Czech Science Foundation: Vulnerability and Energy-Economy Nexus at the Sector Level: A Historic, Input-Output and CGE Analysis (GA ČR no. 16-17978S). Co-investigator.
2016-2018   Maryland Sea grant Program: Integrated Geospatial, Cultural, and Social Assessment of Coastal Resilience to Climate Change. (co-PI). $210.000.