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
Maier, S., Vandyck, T., Ricci, M., Rey, L., Tamba, M., & Wagner, F. (2025). Minimum energy taxes for climate and clean air in the EU: Environmental and distributional impacts. Energy Economics 152 e109001. 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.109001.
Romanello, M., Walawender, M., Hsu, S., Moskeland, A., Palmeiro-Silva, Y., Scamman, D., Smallcombe, J., Abdullah, S., Ades, M., Al-Maruf, A., Ameli, N., Angelova, D., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Ballester, J., Basagaña, X., Bechara, H., Beggs, P., Cai, W., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Charnley, G., Courtenay, O., Cross, T., Dalin, C., Dasandi, N., Dasgupta, S., Davies, M., Eckelman, M., Freyberg, C., Corral, P., Gasparyan, O., Giguere, J., Gordon-Strachan, G., Gumy, S., Gunther, S., Hamilton, I., Hang, Y., Hänninen, R., Hartinger, S., He, K., Heidecke, J., Hess, J., Jankin, S., Jay, O., Pantera, D., Kelman, I., Kennard, H., Kiesewetter, G. , Kinney, P., Kniveton, D., Koubi, V., Kouznetsov, R., Lampard, P., Lee, J., Lemke, B., Li, B., Linke, A., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lowe, R., Ma, S., Mabhaudhi, T., Maia, C., Markandya, A., Martin, G., Martinez-Urtaza, J., Maslin, M., McAllister, L., McMichael, C., Mi, Z., Milner, J., Minor, K., Minx, J., Mohajeri, N., Momen, N., Moradi-Lakeh, M., Morrisey, K., Munzert, S., Murray, K., Obradovich, N., Orgen, P., Otto, M., Owfi, F., Pearman, O., Pega, F., Pershing, A., Pinho-Gomes, A., Ponmattam, J., Rabbaniha, M., Repke, T., Roa, J., Robinson, E., Rocklöv, J., Rojas-Rueda, D., Ruiz-Cabrejos, J., Rusticucci, M., Salas, R., Plana, A., Semenza, J., Sherman, J., Shumake-Guillemot, J., Singh, P., Sjödin, H., Smith, M., Sofiev, M., Sorensen, C., Springmann, M., Stowell, J., Tabatabaei, M., Tartarini, F., Taylor, J., Tonne, C., Treskova, M., Trinanes, J., Uppstu, A., Valdes-Ortega, N., Wagner, F. , Watts, N., Whitcombe, H., Wood, R., Yang, P., Zhang, Y., Zhang, S., Zhang, C., Zhang, S. , Zhu, Q., Gong, P., Montgomery, H., & Costello, A. (2025). The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: climate change action offers a lifeline. The Lancet 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01919-1.
World Bank (2025). Towards Clean Air in Nepal: Benefits, Pollution Sources, and Solutions. The World Bank , Washington D.C..
World Bank (2025). Accelerating Access to Clean Air for a Livable Planet. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank , Washington, DC.
Klimont, Z. , Kiesewetter, G. , Schöpp, W. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Rafaj, P. , Purohit, P. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Wagner, F. , Heyes, C. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Nguyen, B. , Sander, R. , & Warnecke, L. (2025). Chapter 1: Bringing Clean Air, Better Health, A Stable Climate and Other Benefits to the ASEAN Region. In: Clean Air and Climate Solutions for ASEAN. Eds. United Nations Environment Programme, pp. 1-17 United Nations Environment Programme. ISBN 9789280742138 10.59117/20.500.11822/47268.