Where are they now?

In the past, IIASA has highlighted alumni in its Options magazine, and those stories appear below.  More stories on the way.

Gilbert Ahamer

a participant in IIASA’s 1992 Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP) subsequently joined IIASA’s Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies Project as a research scholar, was elected Member-at-Large of the IIASA Society in 2006. More

Joseph Alcamo

co-founded the Acid Rain Project at IIASA in the 1980s. More

W. Brain Arthur

is widely known for developing a theoretical framework for economic allocation under increasing returns. More

Jesse Ausubel

l is currently Director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University, New York and continuous supporter of IIASA's Annual and Endowment Funds. More

Petr Aven

 Foreign Economic Relations Minister of the Russian Federation and Russia’s representative to the G-7 from 1991 to 1992, has been President of the Russian Alfa Bank since 1994 More

Thomas Büttner

a 1986 YSSP participant, was named Assistant Director and Chief of the Population Studies Branch of the Population Division of the United Nations in November 2007. More

Paul J. Crutzen

won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.  More

Serguei Glaziev

is a Russian politician and former Presidential candidate for Russia in 2004. More

Petro Lakyda

Just 14 years after coming to IIASA as a YSSPer, Petro Lakyda is Director of the Institute of Forestry and Landscape Architecture of the National Agricultural University of his home country, Ukraine.  More

Luis Mundaca

was a YSSP participant in 2006 in IIASA’s Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies Program. More

Akira Nagamatsu

graduated from the Yokohama City University with a Master’s Degree in business administration in 1998 and received his Ph.D. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002.  More

Kirit Parikh

s widely known for the Report of the Expert Committee that he chaired on Integrated Energy Policy and as coeditor of the India Development Reports which provide a nongovernmental assessment of India’s development and policy options. More

Martin Parry

led IIASA’s Climate Impacts Project from 1983 to 1987. More

Sergiu Robu

was the first scientist from the Republic of Moldova to conduct research at IIASA and a continuous supporter of IIASA's Annual Fund. More

Cynthia Rosenzweig

is a Research Scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she is the leader of the Climate Impacts Group. More

Thomas Schelling

is Professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland College Park and a generous support of IIASA's Endowment Fund. More

Michael A. Stoto

was a participant in IIASA’s very first YSSP in 1977 and donor to IIASA's first Annual Fund Campaign supporting young scientists from developing countries. More

Harry Swain

spent 1974–1976 as Project Leader and Research Scholar in IIASA’s Urban and Regional Systems Project More

David G. Victor

is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.  More

Christine Wamsler

attended IIASA’s YSSP in 2006, after field studies in disasterprone slum areas in El Salvador for her Ph.D. thesis on Urban Disaster Risk Management. More



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Last edited: 12 March 2012

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