Wolfgang Lutz#
| Membership Number: | 5005 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/researchPrograms/WorldPopulation/Introduction.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Director, Centre of Expertise on Population and Migration, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
- 2010 - present Founder and Director, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
- 2002 - present Scientific Director, Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 2002 - present Professor of Social and Economic Statistics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 1992 - present Director, World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
- 1988 - 1992 Deputy Program Leader, World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- 1984 - 1988 Program Associate, World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate change and population
- Development of education and human capital
- Internal migration
- Aging
- Demography
- Population projections
- Development of the world population
- Future development of fertility
- Comparative European demography
- International migration
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Elected as Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Award for Groundbreaking Population Studies, European Association for Population Studies
- 2016 Science Prize, City of Vienna.
- 2016 Mindel C. Sheps Award, Population Association of America2014 Elected to the World Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Senior Research Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa.
- 2014 Elected to the Finish Society of Sciences and Letters
- 2013 Elected to the Leopoldina- German National Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Wittgenstein Award Laureate, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
- 2009 Mattei Dogan Award, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
- 1998 - 2001 Secretary General, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
- 2013 NUSS Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore
- 2007 - 2013 Member of the Committee on Population, US National Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Senior Visiting Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University
