K.S. (Klaus) Hubacek, Prof

Education

Appointments

2020-present  Visiting Professor, Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

2019-present  Chair of the Board of the Energy Sustainability Research Institute (ESRIG), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

2018-present  Chair of Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES), University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

2018-present  Professor, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

2011-2018       Professor, Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

2015-2016       Visiting Professor, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

2014-2017       Visiting Professor, China Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2010-2013       Senior Research Fellow, Department for Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK

2006-2010       Reader (Associate Professor) in Sustainable Development, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK

2002-2006       Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School for the Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

1999-present  Affiliated Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

2006-present  Member of the scientific organizing committee, International Input-Output Conference

2004-2019       Council member, International Input-Output Association (IIOA)

2004-present  Member of the scientific advisory board, International Conferences on Eco-balance

2002                Visiting scholar, Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria.

2001                Visiting assistant professor, Western Maryland College (now McDaniel), Westminster, USA.

Publication Statistics (-March 2021)

Recent Contracts and Grants

2017-2019       National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA): Linking Rural Decision-Makers with Local Churches to Build Coastal Resilience to a Changing Climate.  NOAA, Coastal and Ocean Climate Adaptations.  Award number NA17OAR4310248. Co-PI. Total Funding: $300,000.  Award Period:   09/01/2017-08/31/2019.

2017-2020       NASA: Integrating remote sensing observations with NASA’s GEOS-5 modeling framework in support of retrospective analyses and seasonal prediction of biosphere-atmosphere CO2 flux. Co-investigator. Award period: 08/02/2017-08/01/2020. Total Funding: 599,924                

2017-2020       NASA: Agricultural Land Use Change in Central and Northeast Thailand: Effects on Biomass Emissions, Soil Quality and Rural Livelihoods. Co-investigator. Total Funding: $675,000.

2017-2021       Department for International Development (DFID, UK): Modeling Early Risk Indicators to Identify Malnutrition (MERIAM). (co-PI): $4,000,000.

2017-2020       NASA: Understanding Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and their Land Change Dimensions: Socio-Environmental Synthesis of the Global ‘Rush’ for Land. Program: NASA Roses.  (co-PI): $747,414.

2017-2019       China Scholarship Council (CSC), International Clean Energy Talent Program (iCET).

2016-2020       EU-Horizon2020, “Guiding European Policy toward a low-carbon economy. Modelling Energy System Development under Environmental and Socioeconomic constraints”. (co-PI). H2020-LCE-2015-2/691287. $4,330,000.