Former Summer Fellow Radost Stanimirova Receives IIASA Fellowship

Radost Stanimirova, a 2016 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth & Environment, has been accepted as a fellow in the Young Scientists Summer Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna. Since 1977, IIASA’s annual three-month program offers opportunities to talented young researchers to work within one of the Institute’s ten research programs under the guidance of IIASA scientific staff. Stanimirova will join the IIASA’s Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) research team.

As a Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, Stanimirova developed a modeling framework that uses remote sensing, meteorological data, and land cover information to help monitor the relative response of global pasturelands to climate variability.