Dr. Sibel Eker is an Associate Professor of System Dynamics 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 |