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
Vrontisi, Z., Abrell, J., Neuwahl, F., Saveyn, B., & Wagner, F. (2016). Economic impacts of EU clean air policies assessed in a CGE framework. Environmental Science & Policy 55 (1) 54-64. 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.07.004.
Smirnov, A. , Wagner, F. , & Rovenskaya, E. (2015). Analysis of Close-to-optimal Zones in LP Decision-support Models. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.
Zhang, S., Worrell, E., Crijns-Graus, W., Krol, M., de Bruine, M., Geng, G., Wagner, F. , Röckmann, T., & Cofala, J. (2015). The Contribution of Energy Efficiency Measures to Air Quality and Related Health Effects in China’s Cement Industry. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.
Gambhir, A., Napp, T., Hawkes, A., Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Winiwarter, W. , Purohit, P. , Wagner, F. , Bernie, D., & Lowe, J. (2015). The contribution of non-CO2 greenhouse gas mitigation to achieving long-term temperature goals. AVOID 2 WPC2b Report. Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, UK /IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria / Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University, USA / Met Office Hadley Centre, UK , London, UK.
Ermoliev, Y., Ermolieva, T., Jonas, M. , Obersteiner, M. , Wagner, F. , & Winiwarter, W. (2015). Integrated model for robust emission trading under uncertainties: cost-effectiveness and environmental safety. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 98 234-244. 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.01.003.