Research Projects

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.