Sarah Matej

Sarah Matej is a Researcher at the Institute for Social Ecology, affiliated with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Her work focuses on global land use systems, human-nature interactions, and environmental sustainability metrics.

Research Interests:

• Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP)
• Carbon cycle and land use change
• GIS and spatial modeling
• Urban-rural telecoupling
• Biodiversity footprint analysis

Notable Contributions:

• Co-developed the Biospheremetrics R package for assessing biosphere integrity
• Published in Scientific Data, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and Journal of Cleaner Production

Projects:

• EO AFRICA - Continental Demonstrator LUISA (2023-2025)
• LandCube: Global Land Use Data Cube (2022-2026)
• Biodiv Vienna: Urban Biodiversity Footprint (2018-2022)