Alois Simon
Dipl.-Ing.Dr.nat.techn. Alois Simon M.Sc.
Institute of Forest Ecology
Location Peter-Jordan-Straße 82, 1190 Wien
Email alois.simon@boku.ac.at
Research Focus
Since the beginning of my scientific career, my work has focussed on forest site ecology in mountain forests.
My scientific work covers various current topics and methods in forest site ecology. This includes bioclimatic and elevation zonation studies, site analysis for tree regeneration, and spatial and temporal modelling of soil properties and species distributions for forest site information systems. Thereby, I work at different spatial scales of field recording and modelling, from microsites to stand level. I am familiar with most of the forest site classification systems used in the German-speaking and alpine regions and have extensive practical mapping experience.
In the Department o Forest Planning of the Tyrolean Forestry Service at the Office of the Tyrolean Government, I´m leading the team for forest site classification and site ecology. One of the main achievements of my work is the production of the Tyrolean Forest Site Classification Map, which has been running for more than 10 years. I am particularly interested in the continuous development of basic data, planning and management tools as well as in the education and training of forestry professionals in the field of site-specific silviculture and tree species selection.
List of projects as scientific project manager (PI)
2024 - 2026 Austrian Acadamy of Sciences: DIMF-Projekt. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division
2024 - 2026 Austrian Acadamy of Sciences: SWIFT-Project. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division
2023 - 2025 INTERREG IVA Project: WINALP21. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division
2019 - 2022 European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development Project: Preparation of fundamental data to assess potential natural habitats. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division
2017 - 2020 INTERREG IVA Project: BASCH. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division
2016 - 2020 INTERREG Alpine Space Project: LINKS4SOILS. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division
2012 - 2015 European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development Project: Innovative classification of forest sites. PI of the Office of the Tyrolean Government, forest division
Career
- 2024 Institut of Ecology, Lecturer (University of Innsbruck (UIBK))
- 2023 Institute of Forest Ecology, Guest researcher and Lecturer (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2022 cooperation in the KLIMNEM-Project for post-doctorate references and extension of research portfolio in Patagonia, Argentina (HAWK - Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Göttingen)
- 2011 permanent employee as expert for forest site ecology and close to nature management of mountain forests, head of the team for forest site classification (Provincial Government Tyrol Forest)
- 2010 - 2023 Master program, „Applied Geoinformatics“, degree: MSc., Master thesis: Integration of hierarchical levels of extent and scale for tree species distribution models (Universität Salzburg, Interfakultärer Fachbereich für Geoinformatik - Z_GIS)
- 2016 - 2021 PhD program, degree: Dr.nat.techn., cumulative Doctoral thesis: Spatial Modelling Methods for Forest Site Classification in Mountain Areas: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
- 2007 - 2011 Master program, „Forest Sciences“, degree: Dipl.-Ing., Master thesis: The influence of windthrow microsites on tree regeneration in a Mountain old growth forest (BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna)
Awards
- Year: 2022 Awards: Walter Kubiena Preis der Österreichischen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft
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