Sergei Scherbov#
| Membership Number: | 6477 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/research/researchPrograms/WorldPopulation/Staff/Serguei-Scherbov.en.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0881-1073 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Principal Research Scholar and Project Leader, Population and Just Societies Program, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
- 2011 - present Director of Demographic Analysis, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, OeAW, University of Vienna), Vienna, Austria
- 201 - present Affiliated Professor at the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- 2002 - 2021 Head of Research Group “Population Dynamics and Forecasting”, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- 2013 - 2019 Deputy Program Director, World Population Program, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
- 2013 - 2019 Project Leader “Reassessing Ageing from a Population Perspective”, World Population Program, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
- 2013 - 2014 Guest Professor at the Department Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)
- 2010 - 2019 Affiliated Professor at the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- 2002 - 2013 Senior Scientist, World Population Program, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- Longevity
- Population ageing
- Disability models
- Computer methods in demographic analysis
- Fertility and mortality models
- Multistate demography
- Population projections
Honours and Awards
- 2020 European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant to study “Fair Pensions and Population Ageing” (957509-PenAgeing)
- 2019 Honorary Doctoral Degree in Liberal Arts (Honoris Causa), Chulalongkorn University
- 2016 Award for his contribution to research and capacity building at the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University
- 2015 European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program to study “Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies” (635316-ATHLOS), together with 14 research partners
- 2012 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant. 2.25 million Euro to study “Reassessing Ageing from a Population Perspective” (323947-Re-Ageing)
- 2010 The leading Austrian newspaper Der Standard (28.12. 2010) named Scherbov’s work on ageing among several most important discoveries of Austrian science in 2010
- 1988 Silver Medal of the State Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, USSR for the series of works in the framework of the theme Systems Modelling of Global Development
