Fabian Wagner
CDAT Dean and Principal Research Scholar
Capacity Development and Academic Training Unit
Principal Research Scholar
Pollution Management Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Principal Research Scholar
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Fabian Wagner is the Dean for Capacity Development and Academic Training (CDAT) at IIASA, and a principal research scholar in the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Program. In addition to being associate faculty both at the Complexity Science Hub and the Technical University in Vienna, he is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (Springer Nature). Wagner is experienced in science policy, strategic planning, and research evaluation, and serves in a variety of advisory roles with national and international organizations.Between the years of 2014 and 2016, Wagner was the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Before joining IIASA in 2004, he was a researcher with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) located at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Hayama, Japan. Prior to that, he was a postdoc with the International Energy Analysis Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
Wagner received both his PhD (theoretical physics) and two master's degrees (mathematics, history and philosophy of science) from Cambridge University, UK. In 1998, he won the J.T. Knight's Prize in mathematics from Cambridge University.
Last update: 16 JUN 2023
Publications
Strokal, M., Kahil, T. , Wada, Y. , Albiac, J., Bai, Z., Ermolieva, T., Langan, S., Ma, L., Oenema, O., Wagner, F. , Zhu, X., & Kroeze, C. (2020). Cost-effective management of coastal eutrophication: A case study for the yangtze river basin. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 154 e104635. 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104635.
Niamir, L. , Kiesewetter, G. , Wagner, F. , Schöpp, W. , Filatova, T., Voinov, A., & Bressers, H. (2020). Assessing the macroeconomic impacts of individual behavioral changes on carbon emissions. Climatic Change 158 141-160. 10.1007/s10584-019-02566-8.
Buckle, S., Mirabile, M., Jaber, A.A., Lanzi, E., Dellink, R., Symes, W., Elgouacem, A., Henderson, B., van Ruijven, B. , Dieckmann, U. , Havlik, P. , Kahil, T. , Riahi, K. , Wada, Y. , Wagner, F. , & Kishimoto, P. (2020). Integrated Policies for Climate, Air, Ecosystems, Energy and Transport. In: Systemic Thinking for Policy Making: The Potential of Systems Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century. pp. 57-66 Paris, France: New Approaches to Economic Challenges, OECD Publishing. ISBN 978-92-64-49456-5 10.1787/879c4f7a-en.
Kirman, A., Dellink, R., Chateau, J., Barnes, S., Rovenskaya, E. , Dieckmann, U. , van Ruijven, B. , Riahi, K. , & Wagner, F. (2020). Methodologies and Tools for Integrated Systems Modelling. In: Systemic Thinking for Policy Making: The Potential of Systems Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century. pp. 29-38 Paris, France: New Approaches to Economic Challenges, OECD Publishing. ISBN 978-92-64-49456-5 10.1787/879c4f7a-en.
Tonurist, P., Rovenskaya, E. , Mechler, R. , Dieckmann, U. , & Wagner, F. (2020). Public Sector Innovation: Adapting Institutions to Systems Thinking. In: Systemic Thinking for Policy Making: The Potential of Systems Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century. pp. 143-152 Paris, France: New Approaches to Economic Challenges, OECD Publishing. ISBN 978-92-64-49456-5 10.1787/879c4f7a-en.