Wolfgang Lutz (social scientist)

Wolfgang Lutz (2014)

Wolfgang Lutz (born December 10, 1956 in Rome ) is an Austrian demographer with a research focus on international population development and education . To this end, he founded the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital in 2010 .

Life

Lutz is the son of the Bavarian historian Heinrich Lutz and is now an Austrian citizen. He studied philosophy, mathematics and theology in Munich and later social science (social and economic statistics) in Vienna. In 1983 he obtained a doctorate in demography from the University of Pennsylvania , and in 1988 he completed his habilitation in demography and social statistics at the University of Vienna .

Since 1994 Lutz has headed the World Population Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 1995–1998 he was Research Director of the Austrian Institute for Family Research and 1998–2001 Secretary General of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Since 2002 he has been Director of the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and from 2008 to 2019 Professor of Social Statistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and since October 2019 Professor at the University of Vienna . After receiving the Wittgenstein Prize , in 2010 he founded the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital , a research cooperation between the three institutions mentioned.

Memberships

• Austrian Academy of Sciences, real member of the philosophical-historical class (since 2012, previously corresponding member since 2008)
• Oxford Martin School , Professorial Research Fellow
• German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , elected member (2012)
• The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries (TWAS) , elected member
• Suomen Tiedeseura (Finnish Society of Sciences), elected member
• US National Academy of Sciences , Committee on Population
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Lead Author Working Group III
• Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development at the National University of Singapore
• Berlin Institute for Population and Development , member of the Board of Trustees
• Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), member of the Board of Trustees
• Asian Demographic Research Institute at Shanghai University , Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Board
• National Academy of Sciences (USA), External Member (2016)
• Academia Europaea , elected member (2019)

Wolfgang Lutz (l.) At the Vienna premiere of Werner Boote's documentary Population Boom (2013)

Awards

• 2008 ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council
• 2009 Mattei Dogan Award from the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
• 2010 Wittgenstein Prize from the Austrian Science Fund FWF
• 2012 Proof-of-concept grant from the European Research Council
• 2016 City of Vienna Prize for Humanities

Publications

• Lutz, W. (Ed.): Population-Development-Environment. Understanding Their Interactions in Mauritius. Springer Press, Heidelberg 1994.
• Lutz, W. (Ed.): The Future Population of the World. What Can We Assume Today? Earthscan, London 1996.
• Lutz, W., S. Sanderson, S. Scherbov: Doubling of world population unlikely. . In: Nature . 387, No. 6635, 1997, pp. 803-805. doi : 10.1038 / 42935 . PMID 9194559 .
• O'Neill, BJ, FJ MacKellar, W. Lutz: Population and Climate Change. Cambridge University, 2001.
• Lutz, W., S. Sanderson, S. Scherbov: The end of world population growth. . In: Nature . 412, No. 6846, 2001, pp. 543-545. doi : 10.1038 / 35087589 .
• Lutz, W., BC O'Neill, S. Scherbov: Europe's population at a turning point. . In: Science . 299, No. 5615, 2003, pp. 1991-1992. doi : 10.1126 / science.1080316 .
• Lutz, W., W. Sanderson, S. Scherbov (Eds.): The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development . Earthscan, London 2004.
• Lutz, W., S. Kritzinger, V. Skirbekk: The demography of growing European identity . In: Science . 314, No. 5798, 2006, p. 425. doi : 10.1126 / science.1128313 .
• Lutz, W., S. Scherbov: The coming acceleration of global population aging. . In: Nature . 451, No. 7179, 2008, pp. 716-719. doi : 10.1038 / nature06516 .
• Lutz, W., C. Cuaresma, W. Sanderson: The demography of educational attainment and economic growth. . In: Science . 319, No. 5866, 2008, pp. 1047-1048. doi : 10.1126 / science.1151753 .
• Lutz, W .: Sola schola et sanitate: Human capital as the root cause and priority for international development? . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , B: Biological Sciences . 364, No. 1532, 2009, pp. 3031-3047. doi : 10.1098 / rstb.2009.0156 .
• Lutz, W., S. KC: Dimensions of global population projections: What do we know about future population trends and structures? . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , B: Biological Sciences . 365, No. 1554, 2010, pp. 2779-2791. doi : 10.1098 / rstb.2010.0133 .
• Lutz, W., C. Cuaresma, MJ Abbasi-Shavazi: Demography, education, and democracy: Global trends and the case of Iran. . In: Population and Development Review . 36, No. 2, 2010, pp. 253-281. doi : 10.1111 / j.1728-4457.2010.00329.x .
• Lutz, W., S. KC: Global human capital: Integration education and population. . In: Science . 333, No. 6042, 2011, pp. 587-592. doi : 10.1126 / science.1206964 .
• Scherbov, S., W. Lutz, WC Sanderson: The uncertain timing of reaching 8 billion, peak world population, and other demographic milestones. . In: Population and Development Review . 37, No. 3, 2011, pp. 571-578. doi : 10.1111 / j.1728-4457.2011.00435.x .
• Pamuk, ER, R. Fuchs, W. Lutz: Comparing relative effects of education and economic resources on infant mortality in developing countries. . In: Population and Development Review . 37, No. 4, 2011, pp. 637-664. doi : 10.1111 / j.1728-4457.2011.00451.x .
• Lutz, W., S. Basten, S. Scherbov: Very long range global population scenarios to 2300 and the implications of sustained low fertility. . In: Demographic Research . 28, No. 39, 2013, pp. 1145-11166. doi : 10.4054 / DemRes.2013.28.39 .
• Lutz, W .: Demographic metabolism: A predictive theory of socioeconomic change. . In: Population and Development Review . 38, 2013, pp. 283-301. doi : 10.1111 / j.1728-4457.2013.00564.x .
• Lutz, W., J. Crespo Cuaresma, W. Sanderson: Is the demographic dividend an education dividend? . In: Demography . 51, No. 1, 2014, pp. 299-315. doi : 10.1007 / s13524-013-0245-x .
• Lutz, W., WP Butz, S. KC (Ed.): World Population and Human Capital in the 21st Century . Oxford University Press , 2014.
• Lutz, W., R. Muttarak, W. Striessnig: Universal education is key to enhanced climate adaptation. . In: Science . 346, No. 6213, 2014, pp. 1061-1062. doi : 10.1126 / science.1257975 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Lutz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Staff page of the Vienna Institute of Demography
• Staff page of the Wittgenstein Center
• Future vision for the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Standard : "Demography on the rise" (January 22, 2002)
2. ↑ WU Blog 2016: "Researcher of the Month"
3. ↑ Der Standard , January 31, 2011: “Wiener Wittgenstein Center wants to be at the top of the demography institute”
4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lutz (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 2, 2016.
5. ↑ 5 Years of Excellent IDEAS . In: ERC: European Research Council . February 27, 2012 ( europa.eu [accessed January 24, 2018]).
6. ^ IUSSP Grant information
7. ↑ Becker Foundation: "Austria: Wittgenstein Prize goes to demographer Wolfgang Lutz" (June 14, 2010)
8. ↑ Der Standard : "Proof of Concept: Viennese Demographers Funded Again" (September 8, 2012)
9. ↑ Vision: The brain is the most important organ for a better future - derStandard.at. Retrieved August 13, 2019 (Austrian German).