Daniela Weber
Senior Research Scholar
Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
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Biography
Daniela Weber joined the IIASA World Population Program (POP) in 2010, where she works on aging. She is also an assistant professor in health economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.Dr. Weber graduated in technical mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology in 2005 and in 2012, she graduated in statistics at the University of Vienna. She completed her PhD at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2015 with the dissertation "An International Perspective on Aging and Cognitive Decline".
Her research focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals on health and gender equality. For instance, Dr. Weber investigates living conditions associated with gender differences in cognitive as well as physical functioning.
Last update: 04 FEB 2020
Publications
Herlitz, A., Dekhtyar, S., Asperholm, M., & Weber, D. (2016). Gender differences in memory and cognition. In: Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. pp. 1-7 Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-287-080-3 10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_225-1.
Loichinger, E., Goujon, A. , & Weber, D. (2016). Demographic Profile of the Arab Region: Realizing the Demographic Dividend. E/ESCWA/SDD/2016/Technical Paper 3. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Beirut, Lebanon
Weber, D. (2016). Differences in physical aging measured by walking speed: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. BMC Geriatrics 16 (1) 1-9. 10.1186/s12877-016-0201-x.
Weber, D. , Skirbekk, V., Freund, I., & Herlitz, A. (2015). The changing face of cognitive gender differences in Europe. IIASA Research Report (Reprint). IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: RP-15-001. Reprinted from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111(32):11673-11678 (2015)
Weber, D. (2015). Differences in physical aging measured by walking speed. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-15-010