Michael Kuhn

Michael Kuhn is a Research Professor and co-leader of the Economic Demography research group at the Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/OEAW, WU) and Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) under the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rostock, Germany (2001), with prior roles including a Junior Professorship at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (2005–2008) and a lectureship at the University of York, UK (1999–2004). His research focuses on health economics, population dynamics, and the macroeconomic implications of aging populations.

Key projects include FWF-funded studies on medical progress and health expenditure (2014–2017) and lifecycle behavior under health shocks (2018–present). He serves on the German Economic Association’s committees for Health and Population Economics, co-edits the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, and organizes the European Workshop on Labour, Health, and Education under Demographic Change since 2006.

His work addresses global health challenges, climate adaptation, and the interplay between demographic shifts and economic systems. Recent research spans healthcare access disparities, aging’s economic impacts, and resilience modeling against health and environmental crises.