Joerg
Priess
Senior Researcher
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Scientific Education and Professional Career
Since 2009 Research group Leader at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
(SALAS – Simulation and Analysis of LAnd Systems)
2004-2008 Head of the GRID research group (Global & Regional Integrated Dynamics) at the Center for Environmental Systems Research – University of Kassel, Germany
Research Interests
• Land-use dynamics
• Global Change processes & impacts on environmental factors
• Integrated modelling & feedbacks in socio-environmental systems
• Scenario development & -analysis
• Ecosystem Services
Scholarships, Honors, Academic Distinctions
Science without borders senior fellow, at the State University of Sao Paulo - UNESP, in Rio Claro (funded by the federal state of Sao Paulo 2014 – 2017)
Marie Curie fellow at University of Wageningen, the Netherlands (funded by the European Commission 1999-2000)
Funded Projects over the last six years
2017-2020 EU BIODIVERSA URBANGAIA (WP lead)
2012-2017 EU FP7 OPENNESS (Operationalisation of Natural Capital and EcoSystem Services: From Concepts to Real-world Applications) WP 2 Task 2.3: Development of an integrative multi-scale scenario approach.
2012-2015 EU FP7 SECTOR (Production of Solid Sustainable Energy Carriers from Biomass by Means of Torrefaction); WP 8, task 8.4: Environmental Assessment
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