Sebastian Poledna

Guest Senior Research Scholar

Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group

Advancing Systems Analysis Program

Biography

Sebastian Poledna is a Guest Senior Research Scholar in 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). He 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. From 2021-2025, he served as the Research Group Leader of the EM Research Group.

Last update: 24 FEB 2026

Publications

Hochrainer-Stigler, S. & Poledna, S. (2016). Modelling Macroeconomic Effects of Natural Disaster Risk: A Large Scale Agent Based Modelling Approach Using Copulas. In: IDRiM 2016 7th International Conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management Disasters and Development: Towards a Risk Aware Society, October 1-3, 2016, Isfahan, Islamic Republic of Iran.

Wildemeersch, M. , Strelkovskii, N. , Poledna, S., & Leduc, M. (2016). Network reslience and systemic risk. Methodological approaches to address network resilience. In: European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research, 30 March-1 April 2016, Vienna.

Leduc, M.V., Poledna, S., & Thurner, S. (2016). Systemic Risk Management in Financial Networks with Credit Default Swaps. SSRN Electronic Journal 1-20. 10.2139/ssrn.2713200.

Leduc, M.V., Poledna, S., & Thurner, S. (2016). Systemic Risk Management in Financial Networks with Credit Default Swaps. In: NetSci-X 2016, 11 -13 January, 2016, Wroclaw, Poland.

Poledna, S. & Thurner, S. (2016). Elimination of systemic risk in financial networks by means of a systemic risk transaction tax. Quantitative Finance 1-15. 10.1080/14697688.2016.1156146.