Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (born November 26, 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian professor of mathematical economics at the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz began her academic training at the Vienna University of Technology in 1984 with a degree in technical mathematics, which she successfully completed in 1989. In addition, she spent 1990 and 1991 in Chicago and completed a Masters in Economics at the University of Chicago on a Fulbright Scholarship . Fürnkranz-Prskawetz received his doctorate in 1992 at the Institute for Information Systems at the Vienna University of Technology. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Demography until 1998. With the Max Kade Scholarship, Fürnkranz-Prskawetz worked at the Institute for Demography at the University of California in Berkeley in 1997 and 1998 . She received her habilitation in the areas of population economics and applied econometrics in 1998. From 1998 to 2003 she was head of a working group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock . Between 2003 and 2015 she was deputy director and head of the working group for population economics at the Institute for Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Fürnkranz-Prskawetz took on the role of head of the Institute for Stochastics and Business Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology from 2012 to 2014. Between 2016 and 2018 she was deputy director at the same institution. In 2015 and 2016 she was the head of the Institute for Business Mathematics.

Currently, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz still holds a few roles: since 2008 she has been Professor of Mathematical Economics, since 2011 she has been Director of Research Training at the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital and since 2013 she has been a research assistant at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg .

Fürnkranz-Prskawetz is married and has one child.

research

Her research focus is on the investigation of the effect of demographic processes on economic processes with regard to the changes that the economy undergoes under consideration of the aging population ( population dynamics ). Further focus points of her research work are:

Dynamic Systems in Economics
Interaction of economic processes between the micro and macro levels

Below is a selection of their current and completed research projects:

Households, consumption, and energy use: The role of demographic change in future US greenhouse gas emissions (Environmental Protection Agency, USA)
Frontier issues in migration research (FWF)
Nonlinear Population Economics (FWF)
Economic impact of immigration in receiving countries (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Publications (selection)

Fürnkranz-Prskawetz has more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. In November 2019 it had an h-index of 44 and was cited 7758 times (Google Scholar). The following is a selection of her most cited works:

A brain gain with a brain drain. Economics letters 1997
Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration: a blessing or a “curse”? Economics Letters 1998
Fertility and women's employment reconsidered: A macro-level time-series analysis for developed countries, 1960-2000. Population studies 2004
Population aging and future carbon emissions in the United States. Energy economics 2008

Awards & honors

2003: Gustav Figdor Prize for Law, Social and Economic Sciences from the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2007: Corresponding member at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2011: Full membership of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2015: Member of the Leopoldina ( matriculation number 7668 )

Web links

Member entry of Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (with picture and curriculum vitae) at the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz on the TU Wien website

Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz on the website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz: Curriculum Vitae 2019. In: Institute for Stochastics and Business Mathematics. Vienna University of Technology, accessed on January 9, 2020 (English).
↑ Interview from 2010. In: Frauenspuren at TU Wien. Vienna University of Technology, July 4, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2020 .
^ Households, Consumption, and Energy Use: The Role of Demographic Change in Future US Greenhouse Gas Emissions. In: United States Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
↑ Oded Stark, Christian Helmenstein, Alexia Prskawetz: A brain gain with a brain drain . In: Economics Letters . tape 55 , no. 2 , 29 August 1997, ISSN 0165-1765 , p. 227-234 , doi : 10.1016 / S0165-1765 (97) 00085-2 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed January 9, 2020]).
↑ Oded Stark, Christian Helmenstein, Alexia Prskawetz: Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration: a blessing or a “curse”? In: Economics Letters . tape 60 , no. 3 , September 1, 1998, ISSN 0165-1765 , p. 363-367 , doi : 10.1016 / S0165-1765 (98) 00125-6 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed January 9, 2020]).
↑ Henriette Engelhardt, Tomas Kögel, Alexia Prskawetz: Fertility and women's employment reconsidered: A macro-level time-series analysis for developed countries, 1960-2000 . In: Population Studies . tape 58 , no. 1 , March 1, 2004, ISSN 0032-4728 , p. 109–120 , doi : 10.1080 / 0032472032000167715 , PMID 15204266 ( tandfonline.com [accessed January 9, 2020]).
↑ Michael Dalton, Brian O'Neill, Alexia Prskawetz, Leiwen Jiang, John Pitkin: Population aging and future carbon emissions in the United States . In: Energy Economics . tape 30 , no. 2 , March 1, 2008, ISSN 0140-9883 , p. 642–675 , doi : 10.1016 / j.eneco.2006.07.002 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed January 9, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian university lecturer, professor of mathematical economics
DATE OF BIRTH	November 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz: Curriculum Vitae 2019. In: Institute for Stochastics and Business Mathematics. Vienna University of Technology, accessed on January 9, 2020 (English).

[2] Interview from 2010. In: Frauenspuren at TU Wien. Vienna University of Technology, July 4, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2020 .

[3] Households, Consumption, and Energy Use: The Role of Demographic Change in Future US Greenhouse Gas Emissions. In: United States Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .

[4] Oded Stark, Christian Helmenstein, Alexia Prskawetz: A brain gain with a brain drain . In: Economics Letters . tape 55 , no. 2 , 29 August 1997, ISSN 0165-1765 , p. 227-234 , doi : 10.1016 / S0165-1765 (97) 00085-2 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed January 9, 2020]).

[5] Oded Stark, Christian Helmenstein, Alexia Prskawetz: Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration: a blessing or a “curse”? In: Economics Letters . tape 60 , no. 3 , September 1, 1998, ISSN 0165-1765 , p. 363-367 , doi : 10.1016 / S0165-1765 (98) 00125-6 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed January 9, 2020]).

[6] Henriette Engelhardt, Tomas Kögel, Alexia Prskawetz: Fertility and women's employment reconsidered: A macro-level time-series analysis for developed countries, 1960-2000 . In: Population Studies . tape 58 , no. 1 , March 1, 2004, ISSN 0032-4728 , p. 109–120 , doi : 10.1080 / 0032472032000167715 , PMID 15204266 ( tandfonline.com [accessed January 9, 2020]).

[7] Michael Dalton, Brian O'Neill, Alexia Prskawetz, Leiwen Jiang, John Pitkin: Population aging and future carbon emissions in the United States . In: Energy Economics . tape 30 , no. 2 , March 1, 2008, ISSN 0140-9883 , p. 642–675 , doi : 10.1016 / j.eneco.2006.07.002 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed January 9, 2020]).