Markus Amann
Program Director
Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Austria
Biography
Markus Amann is Program Director of the Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases (AIR) Program and co-leader of IIASA’s Greenhouse Gas Initiative. He also serves as the head of the Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling (CIAM) of the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) under the Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Dr. Amann has been appointed as a member of the Clean Air Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Editorial Board of“Environmental Modelling and Software” and lead author for the Working Group III report of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Amann was a member of the Environmental Assessment Group of EUROTRAC-II, member of the Management Committee of Topic Centre for Air and Climate Change of the European Environment Agency (EEA), member of the Scientific Oversight Committee of the APHENA "Air Pollution and Health, A European and North American Approach" project of the Health Effects Institute (HEI, Boston, USA), reviewer for the AFO2000 German Atmospheric Research program and reviewer for the United States Acid Deposition Research Program NAPAP. Dr. Amann graduated from the Technical University Vienna in electrical engineering and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He first joined IIASA in 1984, to work in the Energy Systems Program; from 1986 he worked with IIASA’s Acid Rain Project to model emissions and control costs for SO2 and NOX. From 1991 he lead IIASA’s Transboundary Air Pollution Program. Under Dr. Amann’s leadership, the RAINS integrated assessment model for air pollution has been developed and implemented for Europe and Southeast Asia. He directs the policy applications of the RAINS model for negotiations on European emission control accords, such as the 1994 Second Sulfur Protocol of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone of the Convention, as well as the Acidification Strategy (1997) and the Directive on National Emission Ceilings (1999) of the European Union.
Research Interest
His research interests include the interface between science and policy and methods for the integrated assessment of environmental issues.
Publications
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Amann M, Purohit P, Bhanarkar AD, Bertok I, Borken-Kleefeld J, Cofala J, Heyes C, Kiesewetter G, et al. (2017). Managing future air quality in megacities: A case study for Delhi. Atmospheric Environment 161: 99-111. DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.04.041.
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Rao S, Klimont Z, Smith SJ, Van Dingenen R, Dentener F, Bouwman L, Riahi K, Amann M, et al. (2017). Future air pollution in the Shared Socio-economic Pathways. Global Environmental Change 42: 346-358. DOI:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.05.012.
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Höglund Isaksson L, Purohit P, Amann M, Bertok I, Rafaj P, Schöpp W, & Borken-Kleefeld J (2017). Cost estimates of the Kigali Amendment to phase-down hydrofluorocarbons. Environmental Science & Policy 75: 138-147. DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.05.006.
