Sebastian Poledna
Research Group Leader and Senior Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Sebastian Poledna is the leader of the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program.His scientific interests include new approaches to macroeconomics, the impact of climate change on socioeconomic systems, the systemic risk of various complex systems, and financial regulation.
He holds double degrees in physics (2005-2011) and in economics and business administration (1999-2003), and has worked as a practitioner in risk management at one of the largest European banks for almost a decade (2007-2015). He obtained his PhD in physics at the University of Vienna in 2016.
Poledna first joined IIASA as a research scholar in the former IIASA Advanced Systems Analysis and Risk and Resilience programs in 2015. In January 2021, he was appointed research group leader of the EM Research Group. The EM Research Group currently has 35+ scientists whose aim is to produce methodological advances that will underpin future IIASA research.
Last update: 11 JUL 2023
Publications
Poledna, S., Rovenskaya, E. , Crespo Cuaresma, J., Kaniovski, S., & Miess, M. (2020). Recovery of the Austrian economy following the COVID-19 crisis can take up to three years. IIASA Policy Brief. Laxenburg, Austria: PB-26
Poledna, S., Miess, M.G., & Hommes, C.H. (2020). Economic Forecasting with an Agent-Based Model. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-20-001
Poledna, S., Rovenskaya, E. , Dieckmann, U. , Hochrainer-Stigler, S., & Linkov, I. (2020). Systemic Risk Emerging from Interconnections: The Case of Financial Systems. In: Systemic Thinking for Policy Making: The Potential of Systems Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century. pp. 123-132 Paris, France: New Approaches to Economic Challenges, OECD Publishing. ISBN 978-92-64-49456-5 10.1787/879c4f7a-en.
Poledna, S., Miess, M.G., & Hommes, C.H. (2019). Economic Forecasting with an Agent-Based Model. SSRN Electronic Journal 10.2139/ssrn.3484768.