Leila Niamir
Research Scholar
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Research Scholar
Sustainable Service Systems Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Leila Niamir is a research scholar in the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Program. She is a computational economist working on energy demand and climate change mitigation. Her research focuses on cities and the built environment, behavioral and lifestyle changes, human wellbeing, and agent-based modeling.Currently, she is leading the Urban Futures Hub, a pioneering research initiative dedicated to studying cities and their role in climate change.
She has served as an author on several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports. She was a lead author of the Summary for Policymakers and the Technical Summary, and a chapter scientist of Chapter 5: Demand, services, and social aspects of mitigation in Climate Change 2022. In addition, she contributed to the Synthesis Report of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report and the Summary for Urban Policymakers as an author of volume III.
She received her doctoral degree from the University of Twente in The Netherlands on Behavioral Climate Change Mitigation in 2019 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MCC Berlin, Germany from 2019 to 2022.
She is passionate about promoting science for society and actively works on the science-policy-society interface. She is an elect-member of the Global Young Academy (GYA), 2020-2025, as well as the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership founded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, 2021-2023.
Last update: 28 JUN 2024
Publications
Lenton, T.M., Armstrong McKay, D.I., Loriani, S., Abrams, J.F., Lade, S.J., Donges, J.F., Milkoreit, M., Powell, T., Smith, S.R., Zimm, C. , Buxton, J.E., Bailey, E., Laybourn, L., Ghadiali, A., & Dyke, J.G. (2023). The Global Tipping Points Report 2023. University of Exeter , Exeter, UK.
Mastrucci, A. , Niamir, L. , Boza-Kiss, B. , Bento, N., Wiedenhofer, D., Streeck, J., Pachauri, S. , Wilson, C. , Chatterjee, S., Creutzig, F., Dukkipati, S., Feng, W., Grubler, A. , Jupesta, J., Kumar, P., Marangoni, G., Saheb, Y., Shimoda, Y., Shoai-Tehrani, B., Yamaguchi, Y., & van Ruijven, B. (2023). Modeling Low Energy Demand Futures for Buildings: Current State and Research Needs. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 48 (1) 761-792. 10.1146/annurev-environ-112321-102921.
Du, H., Chen, H.-H., Scown, M., Niamir, L. , Daioglou, V., & van Vuuren, D. (2023). Better Intergration of Legal Aspects in Climate Scenarios. In: 16th IAMC Annual Meeting, November 14-16, 2023, Venice, Italy.
Wiedenhofer, D., Streeck, J., Wiese, F., Verdolini, E., Mastrucci, A. , Ju, Y., Boza-Kiss, B. , Min, J. , Norman, J.B., Wieland, H., Bento, N., Godoy Leon, M., Magalar, L., Mayer, A., Gingrich, S., Hayashi, A., Jupesta, J., Ünlü, G. , Niamir, L. , Cao, T., Zanon-Zotin, M., Plank, B., Masanet, E., Krey, V. , Akimoto, K., van Ruijven, B. , & Pauliuk, S. (2023). Material Cycles, Industry and Service Provisioning: A Review of Low Energy and Material Demand Modelling and Scenarios. SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4617908. (Submitted)
Eker, S. , Wilson, C. , Hohne, N., McCaffrey, M., Monasterolo, I., Niamir, L. , & Zimm, C. (2023). A dynamic systems approach to harness the potential of social tipping. arXiv 10.48550/arXiv.2309.14964.