Wolfgang Lutz
Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar
Multidimensional Demographic Modeling Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
IIASA Sherpa for Asia
Directorate - DG Department
Biography
Wolfgang Lutz is the IIASA Sherpa for Asia and holds the title of Distinguished Emeritus Research Scholar at IIASA. In addition to the numerous roles he has held at IIASA over the years, among which were Acting Director General, Interim Deputy Director General for Science, and Program Director, Lutz is the Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, a cooperation between IIASA, the University of Vienna, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.He is a leading academic in the field of population and sustainable development and was one of the scientists appointed by the UN to write the Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 titled, The Future is Now. He has won numerous prestigious awards including the Wittgenstein Prize, two European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants, the Mattei Dogan award of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Science Prize of the Austrian Research Association, and most recently, the 2024 Yidan Prize, which recognizes individuals or teams who have contributed significantly to the theory and practice of education. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy Leopoldina, the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Finnish Society for Sciences and Letters, and the Academia Europaea. He also serves as special advisor to the Vice-President of the European Commission, Dubravka Suica.
Lutz has published more than 300 scientific articles and chapters in refereed books, including 24 in Science, Nature, and PNAS, and wrote or edited 27 books and special issues on international population trends with a special focus on population forecasting, population-development-environment interactions, and on introducing education as a standard demographic dimension in addition to age and sex. He holds a PhD in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Last update: 28 NOV 2024
Publications
Folan, W.J., Faust, B., Lutz, W. , & Gunn, J.D. (2000). Social and environmental factors in the classic Maya collapse. In: Population, Development, and Environment on the Yucatan Peninsula: From Ancient Maya to 2030. Eds. Lutz, W. , Prieto, L., & Sanderson, W., pp.2-32: IIASA Research Report RR-00-014.
Lutz, W. , Scherbov, S. , Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Dworak, M., & Feichtinger, G. (2000). Population, Natural Resources and Food Security Lessons from Comparing Full and Reduced Form Models. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-00-038
Lutz, W. & Scherbov, S. (2000). Quantifying vicious circle dynamics: The PEDA model for population, environment, development and agriculture in African countries. In: Optimization, Dynamics and Economic Analysis: Essays in Honor of Gustav Feichtinger. Eds. [[]], E.J. Dockner, Physica-Verlag. 10.1007/978-3-642-57684-3_26.
Stoellberger, C., Finsterer, J., Lutz, W. , Stoeberl, C., Kroiss, A., Valentin, A., & Slany, J. (2000). Multivariate analysis-based prediction rule for pulmonary embolism. Thrombosis Research 97 (5) 267-273. 10.1016/S0049-3848(99)00180-2.
Lutz, W. , Saariluoma, P., Sanderson, W.C., & Scherbov, S. (2000). New Developments in the Methodology of Expert- and Argument-Based Probabilistic Population Forecasting. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-00-020