Klaus Prettner#
| Membership Number: | 7377 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.wu.ac.at/de/persons/klaus-prettner-7/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8971-8750 |
| Bluesky: | @klausprettner.bsky.social |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/klaus-prettner-903762301/ |
| Publication Link: | https://research.wu.ac.at/de/persons/klaus-prettner-7/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 09/2020 Professor of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria.
- 03/2023 Director of the B.Sc. Economics Track, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria.
- 10/2015 - 09/2020 Professor of Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
- 09/2014 - 09/2015 Assistant Professor of Economics (tenure-track), Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
- 05/2012 - 08/2014 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany.
- 09/2010 - 08/2014 Lecturer in Mathematical Economics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
- 10/2009 - 05/2012 Postdoctoral Researcher in Population Economics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (on leave during 03/2011-02/2012).
- 03/2011 - 02/2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Population Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- 03/2008 - 09/2009 Research Assistant in Population Economics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Fields of Scholarship
- Interrelations between economic growth and inequality
- Effects of health and education on human capital formation
- Impacts of demographic developments on long-run economic outcomes
- Economic consequences of automation
