Katsumasa Tanaka is a Research Scholar in the Population and Climate Change (PCC) Program. He has been coordinating a Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI) project "Geoengineering to avoid overshoot: an uncertainty analysis" since April 2009. From April 2007 until March 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar supported by an IIASA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2006. His research interests include climate modeling, biogeochemical modeling, inverse estimation, learning about uncertainty, Global Warming Potentials, and geoengineering. His main research tool is the simple earth system model ACC2 (Aggregated Carbon Cycle, Atmospheric Chemistry, and Climate model) and its inverse estimation. He was a participant in the 2005 Young Scientists Summer Program.

Dr. Tanaka received his PhD in April 2007 at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany. He worked on the development of the model ACC2 and its inverse estimation. Prior to his PhD work, he was involved in the development of the nitrogen-cycle model KECOM (Kaneohe Bay ECOsystem Model) and its stability analysis for his master's degree in Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, which he was awarded in December 2002. He completed his bachelor's degree in Administrative Engineering at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in March 1998, specializing in Operations Research.

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

Phone: +43 2236 807 428
Fax: +43 2236 71 313
Room: S-119
Email:tanaka@iiasa.ac.at

Mail address:
Population and Climate Change
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Schlossplatz 1
A-2361 Laxenburg
Austria

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Last updated: 17 Sep 2009