I joined the Land-use management team (RD3) in September 2019 as a Doctoral researcher. My work focuses on studying the impacts of global change (climate change and socio-economic development) on land use and agricultural adaptation on various scales, such as local, regional, and global. To analyze and model these phenomena, I utilize the MAgPIE framework. Additionally, I am a member of the Land Use Models (LUMs) team working on generating high-resolution land-use and agricultural management projections for ISIMIP's 3b round.
Currently, I am pursuing a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Life Sciences at Humboldt University, Berlin. Prior to this, I earned a BSc. Degree in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Colombia (Bogota, Colombia). Additionally, I completed an MSc. degree, also in Chemical Engineering, at the University of Calgary (Calgary, Canada). During my master's program, my thesis' was related to the optimal sizing and geographic placement of various components of microgrids (e.g., wind turbines, photovoltaic cells, batteries, and diesel generators) for isolated and grid-connected communities.
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14412 Potsdam
ORCID
- Impacts and adaptation to global change in the Agricultural sector.
- Land, food, water, and waste optimal management.
- Sustainable Energy solutions
- Molina Bacca, Edna J., et al. "Uncertainty in land-use adaptation persists despite crop model projections showing lower impacts under high warming." Communications Earth & Environment 4.1 (2023): 284.
- von Jeetze, P.J., Weindl, I., Johnson, J.A. et al. Projected landscape-scale repercussions of global action for climate and biodiversity protection. Nat Commun 14, 2515 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38043-1
- Bodirsky, B.L., Chen, D.MC., Weindl, I. et al. (2022). Integrating degrowth and efficiency perspectives enables an emission-neutral food system by 2100. Nat Food 3, 341–348. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00500-3
- Govedarica A., Molina Bacca, E.J. & Trifkovic, M. (2020). Structural investigation of tailings flocculation and consolidation via quantitative 3D dual fluorescence/reflectance confocal microscopy. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 571. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.02.098
- Molina Bacca, E. J., Knight, A., & Trifkovic, M. (2020). Optimal land use and distributed generation technology selection via geographic-based multicriteria decision analysis and mixed-integer programming. Sustainable Cities and Society, 55. doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102055
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