Alois Simon
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Alois Simon MSc.
Institut Institute of Forest Ecology
Location Peter-Jordan-Straße 82, 1190 Wien
Email alois.simon@boku.ac.at
ORCID: 0000-0002-6718-7354
https://github.com/simonalois: persönliche Webseite
Research Focus
List of projects as scientific project manager (PI) 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)
- 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
- 2022 Walter Kubiena Preis der Österreichischen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft
Projects
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Publications
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Lectures
(2024) The integration of levels of extent and scale in tree species distribution models of Abies alba (Mill.) and Fagus sylvatica (L.) in mountain forests
Autoren: Simon, Alois; Katzensteiner, Klaus; Wallentin Gudrun
IUFRO World Congress 2024 Session: Forest biodiversity indicators: challenges for science and policy
(2024) Climatic gradients and Microclimatic variations of temperate forests in northern Patagonia, Argentina
Autoren: Simon, Alois; Reiter, Ernesto; Fierke Jonas; Walentowski, Helge
IUFRO World Congress 2024 Session: Forest biodiversity indicators: challenges for science and policy
(2023) Advancing Forest Ecosystem Modelling: Compilation of reference soil profiles for Tyrolean Forests based on Subsolum Geological Substrates
Autoren: Bischofer, L; van Galen, E; Katzensteiner, K; Simon, A
Annual Meeting of the Austrian Soil Science Society 2023
(2021) On the role of parent material for predictive mapping of soil properties in mountain forests
Autoren: Simon, A; Wilhelmy, M; Klosterhuber, R; Cocuzza, E; Geitner, C; Katzensteiner, K
Bridging between Earth Science disciplines: Participatory Citizen Science and Open Science as a way to go – European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021
(2019) A framework for predictive mapping of forest soil properties in mountain areas
Autoren: Simon, A; Geitner, C; Katzensteiner, K
The International Society for Ecological Modeling Global Conference 2019
(2017) Soils characterisation along ecological forest zones in the Eastern Himalayas
Autoren: Simon, A; Dhendup, K; Rai, P.B.; Gratzer, G
EGU 2017