Postdoc-position | Supply side measures for providing biomass for the chemical industry and the implications for reaching climate neutrality in Europe
Background:
Currently, state-of-the-art modelling approaches for developing climate neutrality scenarios do not include the agriculture and forestry sectors explicitly, therefore neglecting the trade-off between biomass use and increasing carbon sinks.
Research Objectives:
- Determining which amounts of biomass can cost-effectively contribute to reaching climate neutrality in the European Union (EU)
- Estimating the trade-off between carbon sinks and use of biomass for fossil fuel replacement
- Understanding differences for country carbon balances, under different assumptions about how the land-use, land-use change and forestry sectors are accounted for within the EU
Methods:
We expand the energy system model pypsa-eur to incorporate the agricultural and forestry sectors for the whole of the EU. Integrate this model with the model in the second, PhD project to develop full EU climate neutrality scenarios.
Indicate the state-of-the-art and describe why the project is beyond state-of-the art and how it will lead to new insights and potential discoveries.
Where to apply:
Fachgebiet
Energy & land use system modelling
Arbeitgeber
Arbeitsstätte
Stunden
20
Antrittsdatum
01. September 2025
Bewerbungsfrist
30. Juni 2025
Kontakt
Cluster of Excellence: Circular Bioengineering
cb_managingdirector(at)boku.ac.at
014765475002
Sophie Schober
cb_managingdirector(at)boku.ac.at
014765475002