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The following statistics are from the last 5 full calendar years: 2021-2025
Publications
Projects
Engagement
158
Number of times participants from India joined IIASA events
43
Number of times visitors from India came to IIASA
92
IIASA staff visits to India
People
44
- Women
- Men
Staff members from India
10
- Women
- Men
Postdoctoral researchers from India
20
- Women
- Men
YSSPers from India
127
- Women
- Men
- Unknown
Total number of alumni from India
News
02 February 2026
Education matters more than income to reduce premature adult mortality in India
IIASA researchers explored why mortality among adults of working age remains high in India alongside rapid economic growth, finding that education – at both individual and community levels – is more strongly associated with lower premature mortality than income or household wealth.
04 July 2025
IIASA works with the Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, to develop a new clean air strategy
Working with the Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, and the World Bank, researchers from the IIASA Pollution Management Research Group helped develop a forward-looking clean air strategy for the Uttar Pradesh state of India, based on air quality levels, trends, and prominent pollution sources.
24 June 2025
Rethinking the demographic race: what is the future economic potential of India and China?
In 2023, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world, and is likely to retain this status for the remainder of this century. In a recent study, IIASA researchers explored whether India could also surpass China in terms of broader socio-economic potential, given the country’s rapid economic growth in recent decades.
Events
Focus
Annual Report 2025: Strategic Initiatives Program Highlights
Throughout 2025, the Strategic Initiatives (SI) Program continued to foster close collaboration with IIASA’s National and Regional Member Organizations, supporting targeted, solution-oriented research aligned with national and global priorities. Building on the initiatives already concluded and those still in progress in collaboration with IIASA Member Organizations, the program maintained its focus on co-designing research that responds to member needs while strengthening engagement across the IIASA community.
At the end of 2025, a strategic decision was taken to dissolve the Strategic Initiatives Program. The Institute is currently reviewing how to integrate the most valuable elements of the former program – particularly its strong member engagement model and flexible, initiative-based approach – into the evolving IIASA research and development vision, ensuring that these strengths remain embedded in the Institute’s research agenda and continue to inform future activities.
Annual Report 2025: Policy impact highlights
As part of its mission, IIASA provides scientific guidance to policymakers by applying systems analysis to global challenges.
Projects
Streamlining participatory approaches and agent-based models to explore ideas of fairness at the food-water-biodiversity(FWB) nexus (fairSTREAM)
Advancing the prediction of extreme hydrological events to save lives and livelihoods (SEED-FD)
ECOANTITRUST
Resilience of Ecosystem Services provided by Intact and Sustainably managed Terrestrial ecosystems (RESIST)
Publications
Srivastava, P., Purohit, P. , Schöpp, W. , Wagner, F. , Klimont, Z. , Kiesewetter, G. , Dey, S., Nygard, J., Tiwari, A., Sharma, M., & Amann, M. (2026). Integrated assessment of cost-effective air quality mitigation pathways for Uttar Pradesh, India. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-6350. In: EGU General Assembly 2026, 03 May - 08 May 2026, Vienna.
Yeganegi, R. & Rovenskaya, E. (2026). Disaster impact forecasting for risk-informed decision making with socioeconomic indices: evidence from earthquake-tsunami in India. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-21655. In: EGU General Assembly 2026, 03 May - 08 May 2026, Vienna.
Purohit, P. , Schöpp, W. , Srivastava, P., Wagner, F. , Klimont, Z. , Kiesewetter, G. , Dey, S., Nygard, J., Tiwari, A., Sharma, M., Amann, M. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Dedring, S., Joshi, P., Lal, H., Ghosh, S., Sander, R. , & Nguyen, B. (2026). Cost-effective mitigation strategies for air quality management in Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal of Environmental Management 405 e129784. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2026.129784.
John, P., Bajpai, R. , Shukla, S.K., Chugh, P., Pushkar, R.R., Murugan, G.T., Sadanandan, R., Budaraju, S.R., & Singh, N. (2026). Abdominal obesity in India: sex stratified multilevel estimates across 707 districts from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey. Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-026-42458-3. (In Press)
Dhakad, M. , Striessnig, E. , Saikia, N., K.C., S., & Lutz, W. (2026). For reducing premature adult mortality in India, education matters more than income. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 (6) e2503809123. 10.1073/pnas.2503809123.
Watanabe, C., Tou, Y., Nagamatsu, A., & Neittaanmaki, P. (2026). Generative AI-Driven Innovation Leads the Way to Coevolution Between Japan, India and the Global South Towards Decarbonization. In: Challenges in Design Methods, Numerical Tools and Technologies for Sustainable Aviation, Transport and Industry. Eds. Tuovinen, T., Neittaanmäki, P., & Knoerzer, D., pp. 209-229 Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-98674-1 10.1007/978-3-031-98675-8_14.