Petr Havlik has worked as a research scholar in the Forestry Program at IIASA since 2007.

Before joining IIASA, he worked briefly as a postdoc at INRA Grignon (France), where he set up a spatially explicit optimization model for the design of biodiversity compatible landscape pattern policies. His current research focuses on development of forest and agricultural sector optimization models at the European and global level, and on their application to land competition and related resource management issues.

Petr Havlik received his Ph.D. in economics from the Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic, and the University of Montpellier 1, France, in 2006.

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