Mathias Leiter

Mathias Leiter, Dipl.-Ing.Dr., is a researcher at the Institute of Silviculture within the Department of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). His work focuses on sustainable forest management, climate change adaptation, and continuous cover forestry.

Research Highlights:

• Specializes in Plenterwald (selection forest) systems and tree growth modeling.
• Active in climate-smart forestry, with projects like Forestry innovation spaces for Climate Smart Forestry (2022–2025).
• Develops sampling methodologies for sustainability indicators in uneven-aged forests.

Recent Publications span 2022–2025, emphasizing forest resilience, geospatial analysis, and comparative studies between Austria and Japan.

Advising:

• Supervised Moritz Benjamin Geisreiter (2025) on natural forest reserves.

Community Engagement: Contributed to knowledge transfer via lectures at the 75th University of Sarajevo Forestry Conference and IUFRO World Congress (2024).