Dr. Sibel Eker is a tenured Assistant Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen School of Management and a Senior Research Scholar at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. Her interdisciplinary research profile combines systems analysis and engineering, decision sciences and social sciences, and her work brings systems thinking and uncertainty focus to climate change and sustainability problems with model-based approaches. Complementing her academic experience, she has worked with several stakeholders and policy actors such as UK DBEIS, World Bank, EIT-Climate KIC, governmental and private organizations.

Her current research interests center around the drivers and implications of demand-side climate change mitigation, sustainable diets, and co-production of mitigation and sustainability scenarios through simple integrated assessment models.

Sibel is a selected member of Global Young Academy where she is co-leading the Scientific Excellence Working Group; a Lead Author in UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7); and an editorial board member of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications and Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. She teaches system dynamics modelling at Nijmegen School of Management and European Master in System Dynamics.

Sibel’s full CV can be seen here.

Experience

2021-present Radboud University, Netherlands
2017-present IIASA, Austria
2020-2021 Senior Researcher , Climate Interactive, Washington DC, USA
2017 Postdoctoral Researcher , Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2016 Research Associate , University College London, UK

Education

2011-2016 PhD in Policy Analysis, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2013 Visiting student , Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2009-2011 MSc in Systems Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
2004-2009 BSc in Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey
2008 Exchange student , Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands