Persons

Michael Obersteiner is Director at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at Oxford University. His research experience stretches from biophysical modelling in the areas of ecosystems, forestry and agriculture to economics, finance and integrated assessment and he has published over 250 scientific papers. Under his leadership several national and international organisations, including inter alia the European Commission, WWF, OECD, and other national and international institutions have received science-based policy advice using quantitative modelling techniques.

Mikhail is a Researcher at the Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University & Research and has a background in applied mathematics and cybernetics. He is also a Disaster Risk Management Consultant at the World Bank. Currently, Mikhail works at the intersection of computational modelling for policy-making. He studies how complex systems like cities or countries can recover, adapt, and transform given various shocks, e.g., a heatwave or a pandemic, and stresses such as social inequality.