Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz
Austrian population economist
Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (born 1966; published as Alexia Prskawetz) is an Austrian demographer and economist, the former director of the Vienna Institute of Demography and a director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. She continues at the Vienna Institute of Demography as its deputy director, and also holds a professorship in mathematical economics at the Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics of TU Wien. Her research applies control theory and nonlinear dynamics to population economics, including the effects of fertility, education policy, migration, and population ageing on the workforce.
Education and career
Fürnkranz-Prskawetz was born in 1966 in Vienna. She was a student of technical mathematics applied to economics at TU Wien, earning an engineering diploma there in 1989, and completing a doctorate (Dr. techn.) in 1992. Her doctoral research also included a stint as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago.
She became a research assistant at the Vienna Institute of Demography and at the Institute for Econometrics, Operations Research and Systems Theory of TU Wien, earning a habilitation through TU Wien in 1998. This period also included postdoctoral study at the University of California, Berkeley Department of Demography from 1997 to 1998.
After heading a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, from 1998 to 2003, she returned to the Vienna Institute of Demography as deputy director in 2003.
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