Johannes Schmidt

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

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Johannes Schmidt

  • Institute for Sustainable Economic Development
  • Department of Economics and Social Sciences
  • University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Bio

I am currently Associate Professor at the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). My current main research interests are linked to the integrated modelling of energy systems with high shares of renewables. I'm interested in developing a comprehensive approach to the assessment of renewable energies, including technical, economic, social, and ecological aspects into my research. Recently, I have won the ERC Starting Grant for the reFUEL project, which deals with a global, integrated analysis of trade with renewable energy carriers and associated impacts on land-use. In 2017, I have finished my habilitation, summarizing my research approach. The full text of the treatise can be found here.

Research Summary

Current Research Activities

My current research activities are mainly linked to the ERC funded refuel project, where we explore the links between land-use, climate, and renewable fuel production and trade and the netzero 2040 project where we develop scenarios for the full decarbonization of Austria until 2040.

Previous Research Activities

From 2016 - 2019, I was involved in the RE_EXTREME research project together with Elisabeth Wetterlund at Luleå Technical University and Sylvain Leduc at IIASA, looking into how extreme events in the weather system affect renewable power generation. For that purpose, we used the COPA model, which I previously developed at a research stay at the Energy Planning Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

I was visiting researcher at the EU Comission's Joint Research Center, Institute for Energy & Transportation of the EU Commission in Petten, Netherlands. There, I looked into the effects of renewable support policy on the spatial distribution of wind generation plants (link to paper, gated). In a subsequent project on wind energy, we assessed, together with other institutes at BOKU university here in Vienna, the potentials of wind energy with a special focus on considering limitations due to social acceptance issues. (Link to project website - in German)

In my doctoral thesis, I co-developed the Austrian BeWhere model together with Sylvain Leduc at IIASA. I used it to assess costs and greenhouse gas emissions of alternative bioenergy applications. Later, the same model was also used in an interdisciplinary context to assess the consequences of energy autarky for a small Austrian region (link, gated) and, in a large integrated modelling compound, the impacts of agricultural policy and climate change on ecosystem services, economics, and bio-energy supply. (link, gated)

Publications

Publications

A full list of publications can be found at my Google Scholar Profile or at the BOKU research information system.

Teaching

Teaching

I am teaching the following master level classes:
  • Computer Simulation in Energy & Ressource Economics
  • Operations Research & Systems Analysis
  • Interdisziplinäres Seminar Umwelt-Informationsmanagement
  • Energiewirtschaftspolitik
  • Vertiefung Ökonomik natürlicher Ressourcen
I am teaching the following bachelor level classes:
  • Ressourcennutzung und Ressourcenemärkte
  • Introduction to Scientific Programming

Master thesis

If you are interested in writing a master thesis in our group, please have a look at this document.

Data & Code

Please visit our github repositories.

Contact

Please find my contact details here