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
Jonas, M. , Krey, V. , Wagner, F. , Marland, G., & Nahorski, Z. (2010). Dealing with uncertainty in greenhouse gas inventories in an emissions constrained world. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
Winiwarter, W. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Schoepp, W. , Tohka, A., Wagner, F. , & Amann, M. (2010). Emission mitigation potentials and costs for non-CO2 greenhouse gases in Annex-I countries according to the GAINS model. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 235-243. 10.1080/19438151003774430.
Tanaka, K., Cho, C., Krey, V. , Patt, A., Rafaj, P. , Rao, S., & Wagner, F. (2010). Geoengineering to avoid overshoot: An analysis of uncertainty. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 12:EGU2010-12796
Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Winiwarter, W. , Wagner, F. , & Amann, M. (2010). Potentials and Costs for Mitigation of Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the European Union Until 2030: Results. Report to the European Commission, DG Climate Action (26 May 2010)
Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Cofala, J., Rafaj, P. , Wagner, F. , & Amann, M. (2010). Potentials and costs for GHG mitigation in the transport sector. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Transport & Air Pollution, 18-19 May 2010.