About
Erich Striessnig is an Associate Professor at the University of Vienna and the Deputy Head of the Department of Demography. He is also a Senior Researcher at IIASA’s Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program. He holds a PhD from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), as well as two master’s degrees, one in economics and one in philosophy from the University of Vienna. Erich’s work at the Wittgenstein Centre has been focusing on the development of multidimensional population projections, as well as their application in questions related to social transformation processes resulting from the demographic metabolism. A large part of his work has also been dedicated to population-environment interactions, in particular the analysis of how future changes in demographic composition will affect societies’ adaptive capacities with respect to climate change, as well as the bi-directional relation between environmental awareness and fertility. In his ongoing work as part of the FAMREG Project, Erich is investigating the role of partner market characteristics in education-specific union formation. His work at IIASA is focused on the returns to skills-adjusted education in the context of the Yidan Project.
Areas of Expertise
- Optimal Fertility
- Adaptation to Climate Change
- Education & Happiness
- Air Pollution Mitigation
- Spatial Demography
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Affiliation: University of Vienna E-Mail: erich.striessnig(at)univie.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 51581-7712
Other Resources
The Wittgenstein Centre aspires to be a world leader in the advancement of demographic methods and their application to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics. In assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being, we combine scientific excellence in a multidisciplinary context with relevance to a global audience. It is a collaboration among the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of Vienna.