Marcin Stonawski
Guest Research Scholar
Multidimensional Demographic Modeling Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Biography
Marcin Stonawski is a Deputy Project Director with IIASA’s World Population (POP) Program.Dr. Stonawski was awarded his PhD at Cracow University of Economics in 2011. His doctoral thesis focuses on the issue of human capital formation and productivity in the context of population aging in Poland. In 2012 he became a member of the Committee on Demographic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is associated with the Department of Demography at Cracow University of Economics, and collaborates with the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington, D.C.
Having graduated from Cracow University of Economics in 2002, Dr. Stonawski took part in the 2007/2008Winter Semester Program at the International Max Planck Research School for Demography in Rostock, Germany. He was employed as a junior scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2008/9.
Dr. Stonawski was a participant in IIASA’s 2006 Young Scientists Summer Program. He returned to the Institute in July 2007, October 2008 and again in July 2009 to join the World Population Program. His main fields of scientific interest are the process of population aging and its socioeconomic consequences, demographic projections, human capital, aging of the labor force, the adjustment of companies and institutions to future changes in the labor market, and changes in religion and religiosity around the World.
Last update: 02 JAN 2014
Publications
Skirbekk, V., Stonawski, M., & Weber, D. (2013). Could nations invest in cognitive skills and become effectively younger? SAGW Bulletin 1/2013, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bern, Switzerland pp.48-49 (January 2013)
Skirbekk, V., Malenfant, E.C., Basten, S., & Stonawski, M. (2012). The religious composition of the Chinese Diaspora, focusing on Canada. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 51 (1) 173-183. 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2012.01618.x.
Skirbekk, V., Stonawski, M., & Goujon, A. (2011). Global Christianity: A report on the size and distribution of the world's Christian population. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Pew Research Center, Washington, DC, USA (December 2011)
Sanderson, W.C., Skirbekk, V., & Stonawski, M. (2011). Young Adult Failure to Thrive Syndrome. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-11-003
Stonawski, M., Skirbekk, V., K.C., S., & Goujon, A. (2010). Projections of religiosity for Spain. DOI:10.2785/50697. In: Eurostat/UNECE Work Session on Demographic Projections, 28-30 April 2010.