Speakers Brochure | IIASA/OeAW Conference

Chris Brunsdon
Professor, Geocomputation, National University of
Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Short Biography
Chris Brunsdon is Professor of Geocomputation at the National University of Ireland,
Maynooth. Prior to that, he was Professor of Human Geography at the University of
Liverpool.
He has research interests in developing spatial data analysis methods, and
reproducibility and inference for these methods. He was one of the developers of the
technique known as Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), and has authored a
number of books on using the R statistical programming language. He was recently
involved in advising the Irish government on modelling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elina Brutschin
Research Scholar, Energy, Climate, and
Environment Program, International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Short Biography
Elina Brutschin joined IIASA as a research scholar in 2019, and works with the IIASA
Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Program, with a research focus on bridging
insights from the political economy and modelling studies of energy.
In her most recent line of work, she has focused on developing tools to evaluate
ambitious climate scenarios from different perspectives using interdisciplinary insights.
Her work on feasibility evaluation of scenarios was included in the recent AR6 IPCC
WGIII assessment. The insights from the feasibility evaluations are now used to
develop a new generation of scenarios within the ENGAGE project that would take
different feasibility risks into account.
Elina is interested in further development of approaches that bring in insights from
other disciplines into the Integrated Assessment Models through new narratives and
adjustments of existing assumptions.
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