“Sigrid Stagl is a proven expert in socioeconomics with a focus on sustainable work, ecological macroeconomics, integrated assessment methods and socioeconomic theory of trade. Her empirical focus on sustainability, energy and food makes her a sought-after interview and conversation partner for the media when it comes to questions about the energy transition, electricity and gas supplies and the resource-saving sustainable economy. But in general, Stagl has also demonstrated her competence as a science communicator many times by getting to the heart of sometimes difficult connections in a simple, understandable and comprehensible way. “I am all the more pleased that the Club of Education and Science Journalists has named Sigrid Stagl Scientist of the Year,” emphasizes Science Minister Martin Polaschek.
The 56-year-old was appointed professor at WU in 2008 and founded the Institute for Ecological Economics there in 2014, which she headed until 2019. Since 2020 she has headed the Department of Socioeconomics at the WU Vienna. Sigrid Stagl previously researched and taught at the University of Leeds and the University of Sussex. After completing her diploma studies at WU Vienna, she completed her PhD studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, where she was awarded the world’s first doctorate in Ecological Economics. Additionally, she was active in the governance of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). As of March 1, 2023, Stagl was appointed a member of the General Council of the Austrian National Bank for five years, i.e. on the Supervisory Board of the National Bank.
Stagl is the eleventh woman to be awarded the title of “Scientist of the Year” by the Club of Education and Science Journalists, after the pioneer, the transplant surgeon Hildegunde Piza from the University of Innsbruck (2000), the climate researcher Helga Kromb-Kolb (2005 ), the archaeologist Sabine Ladstätter (2011) or most recently the glacier researcher Andrea Fischer (2023), to name just a few.
The award for Scientist of the Year has existed since 1994. Since then, the Club of Education and Science Journalists has honored every year the researcher who “particularly cares about communicating their ideas in an easy-to-understand way “The work was well deserved and the image of Austrian research was raised among the general public.”
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