Sylvia Tramberend

Biography

Sylvia Tramberend is a research scholar in IIASA’s interdisciplinary and policy oriented research focused in the food and water thematic area. Since joining the Land Use Change and Agriculture Program in 1997 (Ecosystems Services and Management Program as of 2011), she has contributed to research in systems analysis of agriculture, land use change and ecosystem studies. In 1994, Dr. Tramberend participated in IIASA’s Young Summer Scientists Program, after which she continued working as a research scholar with the Program "Regional Material Balance Approaches to Long-Term Environmental Planning". Her responsibilities as a land use and GIS expert have included the development of large spatial databases serving the modeling and analysis needs in the areas of food-environment-bioenergy-water linkages, food-system analysis, land use and water scenarios and environmental transition. She was involved in Agro-Ecological Zones Methodology assessments for agricultural development planning, worked on several assessments of biofuels and food security, and the mobilization of resources for the bio-economy. In sustainable consumption research she has been a principal investigator in analysis tracing embodied land use and deforestation in agricultural and forestry products from primary production to final utilization. The geographic focus of her research has been both global and regional (e.g. Europe, China, and Brazil). Dr. Tramberend graduated in 1994 from Vienna’s University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences with principal subjects in land use planning, environmental sciences and ecology. In 2005 she received her PhD from the same University, based on research on "The impact of temperature and precipitation variability on potential agricultural production in China".

Research Interest

Her research is focused in the food and water thematic area.