Benigna Boza-Kiss
Research Scholar
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Research Scholar
Sustainable Service Systems Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Benigna Boza-Kiss is a research scholar in the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, where she is jointly associated with the Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions and Sustainable Service Systems research groups.She works on low energy demand scenarios, including their policy relevance and implications for sustainable development. Her main research interest is on understanding the trends and dynamics of technology, behavior, and policy with regard to energy systems, climate change, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and their intersections with other fields. She is also engaged in defining the physical provisioning systems to ensure a good life for all within environmental and economic boundaries.
As part of her work, she coordinates the Energy Demand changes Induced by Technological and Social innovations (EDITS) network, a global collaboration to advance energy demand research and policy support. She is involved in the Austrian decent living standard development and contributes to national IPCC-like initiatives in Austria (Austrian Assessment Report) and the Hungarian Panel on Climate Change (HUPCC).
Boza-Kiss holds an MSc in environmental science and policy from a joint program of the Central European University (CEU, Budapest, Hungary) and Manchester University, UK, in addition to an MSc in Biology and Scientific English Translation from Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest, Hungary). Prior to joining IIASA, she worked at CEU on energy end-use technologies, as well as at the policy-science interface, developing evidence-based policy support tools. She also worked at the European Commission and the Joint Research Center (JRC, Ispra, Italy) on energy efficiency policies, financing, Energy Service Companies (ESCOs), and demand side behavior. In addition, she held a position at the Green Dependent Institute (Godollo, Hungary) with a focus on the research-citizen interface related to sustainable lifestyles.
Last update: 04 FEB 2025
Publications
APCC (2025). Second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change (AAR2). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. ISBN 978-3-7001-5110-4 10.1553/aar2.
Chatterjee, S., Mastrucci, A. , Niamir, L. , Ashok, K., Sreenivas, A., Dukkipati, S., Daioglou, V., Edelenbosch, O., Pelz, S., Boza-Kiss, B. , Kumar, P., & Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2024). Balancing energy transition: Assessing decent living standards and future energy demand in the Global South. Energy Research & Social Science 118 e103757. 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103757.
Wiedenhofer, D., Streeck, J., Wiese, F., Verdolini, E., Mastrucci, A. , Ju, Y. , Boza-Kiss, B. , Min, J. , Norman, J.B., Wieland, H., Bento, N., Godoy León, M.F., Magalar, L., Mayer, A., Gingrich, S., Hayashi, A., Jupesta, J., Ünlü, G. , Niamir, L. , Cao, T., Zanon-Zotin, M., Plank, B., Vélez-Henao, J., Masanet, E., Krey, V. , Akimoto, K., Grubler, A. , van Ruijven, B. , & Pauliuk, S. (2024). Industry Transformations for High Service Provisioning with Lower Energy and Material Demand: A Review of Models and Scenarios. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 49 249-279. 10.1146/annurev-environ-110822-044428.
Bento, N., Grubler, A. , Boza-Kiss, B. , De Stercke, S., Krey, V. , McCollum, D., Zimm, C. , & Alves, T. (2024). Leverage demand-side policies for energy security. Science 383 (6686) 946-949. 10.1126/science.adj6150.
Sugiyama, M., Wilson, C. , Wiedenhofer, D., Boza-Kiss, B. , Cao, T., Chatterjee, J.S., Chatterjee, S., Hara, T., Hayashi, A., Ju, Y., Krey, V. , Godoy León, M.F., Martinez, L., Masanet, E., Mastrucci, A. , Min, J. , Niamir, L. , Pelz, S. , Roy, J., Saheb, Y., Schaeffer, R., Ürge-Vorsatz, D., van Ruijven, B. , Shimoda, Y., Verdolini, E., Wiese, F., Yamaguchi, Y., Zell-Ziegler, C., & Zimm, C. (2024). High with low: Harnessing the power of demand-side solutions for high wellbeing with low energy and material demand. Joule 8 (1) 1-6. 10.1016/j.joule.2023.12.014.