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 of Capacity Development and Academic Training (CDAT) at IIASA, and a principal research scholar in the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. In addition to being associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub, he is also editor-in-chief of npj Clean Energy, an open access journal of the Nature Portfolio.His research interests include the socioeconomic and environmental implications of mitigation technologies, including energy savings, renewables, and district heating, but also generally public health co-benefits and interactions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 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). From 2020 to 2024 he served as editor-in-chief of the journal Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (Springer Nature).
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: 09 JUL 2024
Publications
Liu, X., Wu, K., Wagner, F. , Zhang, S. , Xu, M., Liu, Y., Wang, X., Fang, Y., Zhang, S., & Dai, H. (2025). Pathways to achieve the dual targets of carbon neutrality and air quality in Southern China. Frontiers of Engineering Management 10.1007/s42524-025-4043-0.
Purohit, P. , Kiesewetter, G. , Schöpp, W. , Wagner, F. , Klimont, Z. , Heyes, C. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Srivastava, P., Borken-Kleefeld, J. , & Amann, M. (2024). Cost-effective control of air pollution in South Asia: modeling and policy applications. Environmental Research Communications 6 (12) e125017. 10.1088/2515-7620/ad9b74.
Romanello, M., Walawender, M., Hsu, S.-C., Moskeland, A., Palmeiro-Silva, Y., Scamman, D., Ali, Z., Ameli, N., Angelova, D., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Basart, S., Beagley, J., Beggs, P.J., Blanco-Villafuerte, L., Cai, W., Callaghan, M., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Chambers, J.D., Chicmana-Zapata, V., Chu, L., Cross, T.J., van Daalen, K.R., Dalin, C., Dasandi, N., Dasgupta, S., Davies, M., Dubrow, R., Eckelman, M.J., Ford, J.D., Freyberg, C., Gasparyan, O., Gordon-Strachan, G., Grubb, M., Gunther, S.H., Hamilton, I., Hang, Y., Hänninen, R., Hartinger, S., He, K., Heidecke, J., Hess, J.J., Jamart, L., Jankin, S., Jatkar, H., Jay, O., Kelman, I., Kennard, H., Kiesewetter, G. , Kinney, P., Kniveton, D., Kouznetsov, R., Lampard, P., Lee, J.K.W., Lemke, B., Li, B., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Llabres-Brustenga, A., Lott, M., Lowe, R., Martinez-Urtaza, J., Maslin, M., McAllister, L., McMichael, C., Mi, Z., Milner, J., Minor, K., Minx, J., Mohajeri, N., Momen, N.C., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Morrisey, K., Munzert, S., Murray, K.A., Obradovich, N., O'Hare, M.B., Oliveira, C., Oreszczyn, T., Otto, M., Owfi, F., Pearman, O.L., Pega, F., Perishing, A.J., Pinho-Gomes, A.-C., Ponmattam, J., Rabbaniha, M., Rickman, J., Robinson, E., Rocklöv, J., Rojas-Rueda, D., Salas, R.N., Semenza, J.C., Sherman, J.D., Shumake-Guillemot, J., Singh, P., Sjödin, H., Slater, J., Sofiev, M., Sorensen, C., Springmann, M., Stalhandske, Z., Stowell, J.D., Tabatabaei, M., Taylor, J., Tong, D., Tonne, C., Treskova, M., Trinanes, J.A., Uppstu, A., Wagner, F. , Warnecke, L. , Whitcombe, H., Xian, P., Zavaleta-Cortijo, C., Zhang, C., Zhang, R., Zhang, S., Zhang, Y., Zhu, Q., Gong, P., Montgomery, H., & Costello, A. (2024). The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action. The Lancet 404 (10465) 1847-1896. 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01822-1.
Sharma, A., Peng, W., Urpelainen, J., Dai, H., Purohit, P. , & Wagner, F. (2024). Multisectoral Emission Impacts of Electric Vehicle Transition in China and India. Environmental Science & Technology 10.1021/acs.est.4c02694. (In Press)
Liu, S., Guo, Y., Wagner, F. , Liu, H., Cui, R., & Mauzerall, D. (2024). Diversifying heat sources in China’s urban district heating systems will reduce risk of carbon lock-in. Nature Energy 9 1021-1031. 10.1038/s41560-024-01560-4.