Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia

Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Alexia
Gender	female
Academic title	Prof. Dr.
Year of birth	1966
Personal website	http://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/staff/staff alexia fuernkranz.shtml
(Other) employerNot all of the people we document here at TTNI are employed at the Think Tank: typically members of advisory boards for example wont get paid. The term (Other) employer is therefore a bit misleading.	Vienna Institute of Demography - Austrian Academy of Sciences
Advisory Board member in	EcoAustria
Alma mater	Vienna University of Technology; University of Chicago
Subject of study	Mathematical Economics
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Education:

• Studies in Technical Mathematics (applied to Economics) at the Vienna University of Technology
• M.A. in Economics at the University of Chicago
• 1992 - PhD in Technical Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology [Subject: "Nichtlineare Demoökonomie"]
• 1998 - 2nd Doctorate (Habilitation) at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Econometrics, Operations Research and Systems Theory in Population Economics and Applied Econometrics

Professional Career

• Professor of Mathematical Economics at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Unit: Economics (since February 2008)
• Deputy Director and Research Group Leader (Research Unit: Population Economics) at the Vienna Institute of Demography (since October 2003)
• Research Associate of the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University Essex (since February 2006)
• Head of Independent Research Group on Population, Economy, and Environment at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany (October 1998 till October 2003)
• Research scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Econometrics, Operations Research and Systems Theory.
• Teaching at the Vienna University of Technology, University of Vienna, and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.

Focus

• Economic and demographic development

Supervised several projects (esp. EU-financed) on conditions of economic growth in countries with ageing populations.

Memberships

• member (wirkliches Mitglied) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,
• research assistant at the IIASA.

Two presences at Forum Alpbach in 2011 and 2012. Received in 2011 the Wirtschaftskammer-Preis of the TU Wien for “Indikatoren für Generationengerechtigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit sozialer Transfersysteme“. Under the coverage of the project "Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe - WWW for Europe" lead by Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, the necessity of a deep reform of the Austrian pensions system shall be shown (http://www.studium.at/276196-tu-wien-will-mit-studie-notwendigkeit-einer-pensionsreform-nachweisen).

Since 2014 member of the advisory council of Eco Austria.