Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Erich Striessnig
About
Erich Striessnig is an Associate Professor at the University of Vienna and the Deputy Head of the Department of Demography. He is also a Senior Researcher at IIASA’s Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Program. He holds a PhD from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), as well as two master’s degrees, one in economics and one in philosophy from the University of Vienna. Erich’s work at the Wittgenstein Centre has been focusing on the development of multidimensional population projections, as well as their application in questions related to social transformation processes resulting from the demographic metabolism. A large part of his work has also been dedicated to population-environment interactions, in particular the analysis of how future changes in demographic composition will affect societies’ adaptive capacities with respect to climate change, as well as the bi-directional relation between environmental awareness and fertility. In his ongoing work as part of the FAMREG Project, Erich is investigating the role of partner market characteristics in education-specific union formation. His work at IIASA is focused on the returns to skills-adjusted education in the context of the Yidan Project.
Key Facts
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Areas of Expertise
- Population & Environment
- Spatial Demography
- Assortative Mating
- Human Capital
- Population Projections
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Contact
Office:
Dominikanerbastei 16 (PSK)
1010 Wien
Room: A B27 01 (5th floor)E: erich.striessnig@univie.ac.at
Curriculum Vitae
Projects
Family outcomes of assortative mating: New insights based on couple-level survey/register data
Climate, Health and Population - Climate Change and Differential Vulnerabilities in the Metropolitan Area of Vienna
Publications
2026
Dhakad M, Striessnig E, Saikia N, K.c. S, Lutz W. For reducing premature adult mortality in India, education matters more than income. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2026 Feb 1;123(6):e2503809123. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2503809123
2025
Peters S, Striessnig E, Trimarchi A, Testa MR, Nitsche N. Too worried about the environment to have children? Or more worried about the environment after having children? Population and Environment. 2025 Jul 17;47(3):31. doi: 10.1007/s11111-025-00501-x
KC A, Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi M, Eigelaar-Meets I, Lijadi AA, Reiter C, Striessnig E et al. Assessing sustainable wellbeing in Africa through “Years of Good Life”. Environmental Development : the transdisciplinary journal of SCOPE. 2025 Jun;54:101140. doi: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101140
Breznau N, Rinke EM, Wuttke A, Adem M, Adriaans J, Akdeniz E et al. The reliability of replications: A study in computational reproductions. Royal Society Open Science. 2025 Mar 19;12(3):241038. doi: 10.1098/rsos.241038
Trimarchi A, Striessnig E. Changes in Parenthood Expectancy Over Time Under an Age-Perspective. 2025. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-64447-4_106