Stefan Frank

Stefan Frank is a Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). His main research topics focus on land-based mitigation, bioenergy potentials, and foresight exercises including synergies or trade-offs with the Sustainable Development Goals. He is coordinating and further developing the integration of the GLOBIOM model with Integrated assessment Models for the comprehensive economy-wide assessment of ambitious climate stabilization pathways, which regularly underpin the foresight chapters in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s reports. He is currently coordinating activities around GLOBIOM code consolidation with a view on making it openly accessible. He is the principal investigator on several international EU research and tender projects, where he leads the IIASA Integrated Biosphere Futures Research Group's contribution to key European Commission policy impact assessments such as the 2030 Energy and Climate targets or the EU's long-term strategy towards carbon neutrality.