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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

Principal Research Scholar

Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group

Energy, Climate, and Environment

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

Amann, M. , Klimont, Z. , An Ha, T., Rafaj, P. , Kiesewetter, G. , Gomez Sanabria, A. , Nguyen, B. , Thi Thu, T.N., Thuy, K., Schöpp, W. , Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Wagner, F. , Sander, R. , Heyes, C. , Cofala, J., Trung, N.Q., Dat, N.T., & Tung, N.N. (2019). Future air quality in Ha Noi and northern Vietnam. IIASA Research Report. Laxenburg, Austria: RR-19-003

Budolfson, M., Dennig, F., Fleurbaey, M., Scovronick, N., Siebert, A., Spears, D., & Wagner, F. (2019). Optimal Climate Policy and the Future of World Economic Development. The World Bank Economic Review 33 (1) 21-40. 10.1093/wber/lhx016.

Amann, M. , Jiming, H., Borken-Kleefeld, J. , Cofala, J., Gomez Sanabria, A. , Heyes, C. , Höglund-Isaksson, L. , Kiesewetter, G. , Klimont, Z. , Nguyen, B. , Purohit, P. , Rafaj, P. , Sander, R. , Wagner, F. , Schöpp, W. , Kuylenstierna, J., Wang, S., Ye, W., Shindell, D., Seltzer, K., & Borgford-Parnell, N. (2019). Scenarios and Solutions. In: Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based solutions. pp. 61-100 Bangkok, Thailand: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). ISBN 978-92-807-3725-7

Herrera-Estrada, J., Diffenbaugh, N., Wagner, F. , Craft, A., & Sheffield, J. (2018). Response of electricity sector air pollution emissions to drought conditions in the western United States. Environmental Research Letters 13 (12) e124032. 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf07b.

Peng, W., Wagner, F. , Ramana, M.V., Zhai, H., Smalls, M., Dalin, C., Zhang, X., & Mauzerall, D. (2018). Managing China’s coal power plants to address multiple environmental objectives. Nature Sustainability 1 (11) 693-701. 10.1038/s41893-018-0174-1.