Dr. Jonas Schwaab

Dr. Jonas Schwaab
Address
Herrenhäuser Straße 2
30419 Hannover
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Room
Dr. Jonas Schwaab
Address
Herrenhäuser Straße 2
30419 Hannover
Building
Room

Function:

  • Interims Professor of Digital Environmental Planning

Focus in research and teaching

  • Multi-criteria decision-making and multi-objective optimization to support environmental planning
  • Interactive decision-making support in environmental planning
  • Spatial planning of renewable energies
  • Land-use change modelling
  • Land-use changes and their climatic impacts
  • Climatic influence of trees and forests

Curriculum vitae

  • Memberships and Positions
    • 2025-present: Interims Professor of Digital Environmental Planning, Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University Hanover, Germany.
    • 2024-2025: Visiting researcher, Decision Analytics utilizing Causal Models and Multiobjective Optimization (DEMO), University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
    • 2023-2025: Senior researcher, Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems (ETH Zürich) and Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL/SLF), Switzerland.
    • 2017-2023: Postdoctoral and Senior researcher, Land-Climate Dynamics, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
    • 2015-2016: Research associate, Computational Optimization and Innovation Laboratory (COINlab), Michigan State University, USA.
    • 2013-2017: PhD in Landscape and Urban Planning, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.