Leila Niamir

Biography

Leila is a research scholar and lead of Urban Futures Hub, at the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. She is a computational economist working on energy demand and climate change mitigation. Her research focuses on cities and the built environment, behavioral and lifestyle changes, human wellbeing, and agent-based modeling.

She has served as an author on several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports. She was a lead author of the Summary for Policymakers and the Technical Summary, and a chapter scientist of Chapter 5: Demand, services, and social aspects of mitigation in Climate Change 2022. In addition, she contributed to the Synthesis Report of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report and the Summary for Urban Policymakers as an author of volume III.

She received her doctoral degree from the University of Twente in The Netherlands on Behavioral Climate Change Mitigation in 2019 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MCC Berlin, Germany from 2019 to 2022.