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Dr. Michael OBERSTEINER Program Leader, Ecosystems Services and Management Program, IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg

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1987 UNFICYP - United Nations Forces in Cyprus, Famagusta
1987-1994 M.Sc. in Forestry, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
1990-1991 Eco Physiology, Plant Physiology University of Washington, Seattle
Fulbright Research Assistant, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle
since 1993 Research Scholar, Forestry Program, IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg; Visiting Scientist Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
1994-1997 Dr. nat. techn., Forestry, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
1994-1996 M. phil. in Economics, Joint Ph.D. Program in Economics, Columbia University, New York and IHS - Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
1996-2006 Energy and Natural Resource Economist Department of Economics and Finance, HIS - Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
2008-2009 Seconded Staff Expert, GEO - Group on Earth Observations, WMO - World Meteorological Organization, Geneva
since 2001 Group Leader of Global Land-Use Modeling and Environmental Economics, IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
since 2002 Consulting Expert for Land-use Change Economics, European Commission, UK Government, Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies, and NGOs

Publikationen

Obersteiner, M., Azar, C., Kauppi, P., Moellersten, K., Moreira, J.R., Nilsson, S., Read, P., Riahi, K., Schlamadinger, B., Yamagata, Y., Yan, J., van Ypersele, J.P.: Managing climate risk. Science, 294(5543):786-787 (26 October 2001), 2001
Obersteiner, M., Searchinger, T.D., Hamburg, S.P., Melillo, J., Chameides, W.L., Havlik, P., Kammen, D.M., Likens, G.E., Lubowski, R.N., Oppenheimer, M., Robertson, G.P., Schlesinger, W.H., Tilman, G.D.: Fixing a critical climate accounting error. Science, 326(5952):527-528 (23 October 2009), 2009
Obersteiner, M., Liu, J., You, L., Amini, M., Herrero, M., Zehnder, AJB., Yang, H.: A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland PNAS, 107(17):8035-8040 (27 April 2010) (Published online 12 April 2010), 2010
Obersteiner, M., van der Velde, M., See, L., You, L., Balkovic, J., Fritz, S., Khabarov, N., Wood S.: Affordable nutrient solutions for improved food security as evidenced by crop trials, PLoS ONE, 8(4):e60075 (2 April 2013), 2013