Dr. Florian Kraxner is a Research Group Leader and Principal Research Scholar of the Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Hokkaido University Sapporo and Bachelor's and Master’s degrees from the BOKU-University in Vienna, specializing in forestry, mountain risk engineering, and watershed management. Since 2000, he has further been working in the fields of forest products certification and public opinion on the forest sector, inter-alia for EFI/Innoforce, MCPFE/Forests Europe, and FAO/UN-ECE. Before joining IIASA, he also co-developed and coordinated BOKU’s International Mountain Forestry Master Courses “MSc Mountain Forestry” and “MSc Natural Resources Management and Environmental Engineering (Double Degree with University of Christchurch, NZ)”. Since 2006, he has been a visiting researcher with Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) to work on integrated urban–rural development concepts and as of 2020, he holds a visiting professorship with the Division of Environmental Science and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University (KU), Seoul, Republic of Korea.