IIASA - Postdoctoral Program

IIASA Postdoctoral Fellows

2009 Fellows

Upasna Sharma (RAV) is researching issues related to communication of uncertainty associated with climate forecasts and climate hazard warnings, particularly, how the target audience of these forecasts and warnings interpret and understand uncertainty. She also intends to empirically explore whether communicating uncertainty in terms that the target audience could relate to would actually lead to an enhanced response on their part.

2009 IIASA Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D in public policy and climate change (2009) from the School of Management at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Jose Siri (HGC) is researching how urbanization patterns and urban structure affect the transmission of mosquito-borne disease, and how better understandings of the dispersal of humans, vectors and infection in this context can lead to more effective and efficient public health policy.

2009 IIASA Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D. in Epidemiology (2006) from the University of Michigan

2008 Fellows

	Jason J. Blackstock (RAV) is focusing on evaluating the scientific, political and economic implications of climate engineering (a.k.a. geoengineering) concepts aimed at limiting the negative consequences of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions.	2008 IIASA Postdoctoral Scholar Ph.D. in Physics (2005) from the University of Alberta.
	Jacob Johansson (EEP) is developing eco-evolutionary models for explaining fundamental patterns of variation in plant community structures. The project is a part of an international collaborative effort to create a new generation of evolutionarily informed vegetation models for predicting responses to global climatic trends.	2008 IIASA Postdoctoral Scholar Ph.D. in Biology (2008) from Lund University, Sweden.

2007 Fellows

	Christopher Doll (GGI/TNT) is carrying out research on the production of socioeconomic datasets from night-time light satellite imagery and how they can be combined with other data to help answer fundamental questions concerning sustainable development and the human dimensions of global change.	2007 IIASA Postdoctoral Scholar Ph.D. in Remote Sensing (2003) from University College, London.
	Edmar Teixeira (LUC) is focusing on the enhancement of the FAO/IIASA Agro-ecological Zones (AEZ) methodology.	2007 IIASA Postdoctoral Scholar Ph.D. in Crop Physiology (2006) from Lincoln University, New Zealand.

2006 Fellows

	Tapas Mishra (POP) studied the consequences of stochastic demographic systems on economic growth and development by exploiting their non-stationary temporal and spatial features.	2006 IIASA Postdoctoral Scholar Ph.D. in Economics (2005) from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
	Katsumasa Tanaka (PCC) is working on an inverse estimation of the global carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry, and climate system. He is particularly interested in climate sensitivity and its learning aspect to get an insight into the uncertainty in future climate projections.	2006 IIASA Postdoctoral Scholar Ph.D. in Meteorology (2007) from the International Max Planck Institute for Earth Systems Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), Hamburg, Germany.

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