Mathias Kirchner
Dipl.-Ing.Dr. Mathias
Kirchner
Centre for Global Change and Sustainability
Location Dänenstraße 4, Raum 01/21, 1190 Wien
Email mathias.kirchner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-99119
classifications according to Statistics Austria:
MacroeconomicsAgricultural economicsAgricultural policySustainable economicsClimate changeEnvironmental economicsMicroeconomicsFuturologyMathematical modellingDynamical systems
MacroeconomicsAgricultural economicsAgricultural policySustainable economicsClimate changeEnvironmental economicsMicroeconomicsFuturologyMathematical modellingDynamical systems
Research Focus
- Climate action and just transition
- Socio-ecological transformation pathways with a focus on growth-independence
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
keywords
- Modelling (interdisciplinary, integrated, participatory)
- Ecological Economics
- Knowledge integration methods
- System dynamics modelling (qualitative and quantitative)
- Scenario development
Career
- 2018 (on-going) Senior scientist at the Center for Global Change and Sustainability, BOKU, Vienna
- 2023 - 2023 Parental leave
- 2021 - 2021 Parental leave
- 2016 - 2018 Research staff member at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) - Research Group Environment, Agriculture and Energy
- 2011 - 2016 Research assistant at the Institute of Sustainable Economic Development, BOKU, Vienna
- 2011 - 2014 PhD candidate - Doctoral School Sustainable Development (dokNE) II, BOKU, Vienna
- 2015 Doctorate in Social and Economic Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
- 2015 Completion of the Doctoral Certificate Program in Agricultural Economics
- 2013 IIASA Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP), Laxenburg, Austria
- 2011 Completion of the International Joint Master Programme 'Natural Resources Management and Ecological Engineering', BOKU, Vienna and Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand
- 2008 Completion of the Bachelor 'Environmental- and Bio-resources Management', BOKU, Vienna
Awards
- Year: 2022 Awards: BOKU Nachhaltigkeitspreis - Kategorie Forschung - Publikationen/Dissertationen - Hauptgewinn für https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.021 (Ko-Autor)
- Year: 2020 Awards: Sustainability Award 2020 - 1. Platz in der Kategorie Kommunikation und Entscheidungsfindung für den Referenzplan Nationaler Energie- und Klimaplan für Österreich
- Year: 2017 Awards: UV-Forschungsstipendium - Dissertation
- Year: 2017 Awards: Preis der österreichischen Hagelversicherung - Dissertation
- Year: 2016 Awards: ÖGA Preis (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Agrarökonomie) - Dissertation