Invited lectures and talks
2024 – Harnessing social tipping dynamics: How can we benefit from systems science? Lovejoy Symposium 2024. World Wild Life Fund (WWF), 5 December 2024
2024 - The Science of Measuring Sustainability: Going Beyond GDP. World Science Forum. 20-22 November 2024, Budapest
2024 – AI for Climate Change Mitigation - The Transition to Net Zero. Panelist at the Sixteenth session of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 19 November 2024, Geneva.
2024 – Global system dynamics modeling of human-earth system interactions. Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology at Hamburg. 7 November, 2024
2024 – AI in Science. Science Advice Mechanism of the European Commission and IIASA webinar. September 2024
2024 – Approaches to Nonlinear Change. Positive Tipping Points Workshop of the Bezos Earth Fund. September 2024.
2024 – Tipping Points. Useful or Disturbing? Public talk by Radboud Reflects. September 2024.
2024 – Participatory Systems Mapping. IIASA Expert Workshop on Digitalisation Narratives and Climate Change Mitigation. May 2024.
2024 - Humans in climate policy models. Computational Science Lab, University of Amsterdam. May 2024.
2024 – Tipping points in global systems modeling. IAS Workshop on Tipping points towards sustainability: Theory, tools and empirical evidence. April 2024, Amsterdam.
2024 – AI for Climate and Nature, Bezos Earth Fund and Columbia University, April 2024, New York (invited participant only)
2024 – How to have humans in climate policy models. Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), University of Amsterdam. February 2024.
2023 - Improving the representation of social systems in climate policy models. Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, 26 October 2023
2023 - System dynamics modelling to explore climate, economy, environment and society interactions. UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Systems Thinking Seminar, 14 June 2023
2023 – Using simple integrated assessment models to explore human and earth system feedbacks. Joint Oslo Seminar (MET Norway, CICERO, University of Oslo), 24 May 2023, Oslo, Norway.
2023 – Using system dynamics to explore behavior change in integrated assessment context. LOOPS-5 Workshop, Conceptualizing and Navigating Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene. 27-29 March, Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm, Sweden.
2022 - Climate Change and Sustainability: Global Issues in Development. Advanced Modules in International Development (AMID), November 2022
2022 - Achieving Resilience in a Complex World - Guidance for Action from Systems Sciences. Systems Analysis for Reducing Footprints and Enhancing Resilience Conference, Austrian Academy of Sciences, November 2022
2022 - Using simple integrated assessment models to explore human and earth system feedbacks. Session “Advances in human-Earth System interactions in scenario development” in Scenarios Forum 2022
2022 – Acting on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) synergies and trade-offs requires policy-focused systems tools. Keynote speech at the 5th International Research Workshop on Archetypes in Sustainability Research, University of Greifswald, Germany.
2022 – Social dynamics of low-carbon lifestyles. Radboud Interfaculty Complexity Hub.
2021 - Interactive simulation environments and role playing games to explore climate solutions. Koc University, Turkey.
2021 - Career Development Panel. Webinar series of the Society for Decision-making under Deep Uncertainty.
2021 - Global Modeling for Climate Change Research and Action. July 2021, System Dynamics Society Webinar
2021 - Drivers of solar photovoltaic uncertainty. June 2021, NAVIGATE webinar organized by Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC).
2021 - Using online social media data to estimate energy demand. May 2021, ENERGYA Workshop, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), Italy.
2019 - Introduction to agent-based modelling. October 2019, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2019 - Modelling human behaviour behind global diet shifts. May 2019, Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria.
2018 - Systems modelling to investigate sustainable consumption dynamics. Lecture series on “Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals: Systems analytical perspectives on strategies and trade-offs”, October 2018, Institute for Social Ecology, Vienna, Austria.
2018 - System dynamics modelling for sustainable production and consumption. IIASA-University of Tokyo Workshop on “How can advanced mathematical modeling tools be useful to address sustainability challenges?”, March 2018, Laxenburg, Austria.
2016 - Dealing with Uncertainties in the Dutch Gas Sector: An exploratory modeling and analysis approach. Seminar at Industrial Engineering Department, Bogazici University, January 2016, Istanbul Turkey.
Organized Events and Outreach
2024 - Organization of the IIASA Expert Workshop on Using Social Media Data and Digital Platforms in Climate and Sustainability Research.
2022 - Session Interacting with integrated assessment models for target-seeking under uncertainty in Scenarios Forum 2022
2021 - En-ROADS Climate Action Simulation role-play game (in Turkish). Sosyal Iklim Dernegi
2021 - En-ROADS Climate Workshop (in Turkish) Ashoka Turkey Social Enterpreneurship Day.
2021 - Exploring the Economic Impacts of Climate Change in En-ROADS – the “Damage Function” Webinar by Climate Interactive.
2021 - En-ROADS Climate Workshop Webinar by Climate Interactive. (in Turkish)
2020 - Organizing committee member of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty
2019 - Katharine Hayhoe, Barriers To Public Acceptance of Climate Science, Impacts, and Solutions, Lecture at IIASA.
2019 - Group facilitator at the International Symposium on Global Sustainable Development Goals in a Mediatized World, organized by Austrian Academy of Sciences
2014 & 2015 - Vice president and the PhD Colloquium organizer of the System Dynamics Student Chapter
International conference talks
(excl. the talks on conference papers)
Eker S, Liu Q, Reiter C, Kuhn M. Human wellbeing in relation to climate, economy and environment. In: Annual meeting of the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium, 14-17 November 2023, Venice, Italy.
Eker S, Wilson C (2022) Social tipping mechanisms for rapid decarbonization. In: International System Dynamics Conference, Frankfurt, Germany.
Eker S, Mastrucci A, Pachauri S, van Ruijven B (2021). Trends and drivers of air-conditioning adoption: Confidence-building in social media data. In: Annual meeting of the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium, 29 November-3 December 2021.
Eker, S., Siegel, L., Jones, C., Sterman, J., Kapmeier, F., Fiddaman, T., Homer, J., Rooney-Varga, J., Franck, T., and Jones, A.: Public Outreach and Interactive Learning with En-ROADS Global Energy and Climate Simulator., EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7334,
Kapmeier, F., Sterman, J., Siegel, L., Eker, S., Fiddaman, T., Homer, J., Rooney-Varga, J., and Jones, A.: En-ROADS: A Global Energy and Climate Simulator to Support Strategic Thinking and Public Outreach, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-7608,
Eker S (2020). Can we use online social media data for modelling lifestyle change?. In: Annual meeting of the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium, 1-4 December 2020.
Moallemi E, Eker S, Gao L, Bryan B. (2020) Global pathways to the post-2030 sustainable development. In: Annual meeting of the Society for Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty, 10-12 November 2020.
Eker S (2020). Using DMDU methods to explore the lifestyle change uncertainty in integrated assessment models. In: Annual meeting of the Society for Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty, 10-12 November 2020.
Eker S, Reese G, & Obersteiner M (2019). Modelling the drivers of a widespread shift to sustainable diets. In: World Resources Forum, 23-24 October 2019, Geneva, Switzerland.
Eker S, Reese G, & Obersteiner M (2019). A widespread shift to sustainable diets requires rapid risk perception. In: Global Sustainable Development Goals in a Mediatized World, 4-5 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.
Eker S, Rovenskaya E, Obersteiner M , & Langan S (2019). Validation of models used for scenario generation. In: Scenarios Forum, March 2019, Denver, Colorado.
Eker S, Reese G, Gao L, Obersteiner M (2018). Investigating global diet change dynamics by linking models of human behavior to IAMs. The 11th Annual Meeting of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium, 13-15 November 2018, Seville, Spain.
Eker S, Rovenskaya E, Obersteiner M, Langan S (2018). A bibliometric analysis of the model validation literature. The 11th Annual Meeting of the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium, 13-15 November 2018, Seville, Spain.
Eker S, Rovenskaya E, Obersteiner M, Langan S (2018). Validation of environmental models: Practice and perspectives. EGU General Assembly, April 2018, Vienna, Austria.
Eker S, Rovenskaya E, Obersteiner M, Langan S (2017). Validation of uncertainty-oriented environmental models: A review of the existing approaches. Fifth Annual Workshop on Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, November 2017, Oxford, UK.
Eker S, van Daalen E (2015). A Multi-Method Approach to Evaluate the Robustness of Policies in the Dutch Gas Sector. Third Annual Workshop on Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, November 2015, Delft, Netherlands.
Eker S (2014). A systems modelling and exploratory uncertainty analysis of the future of the Dutch gas sector. Energy Systems Conference, June 2014, London: Elsevier.
Eker S, Slinger J (2014). Model Analysis Tools and Methods: Multivariate Sensitivity Analysis. Workshop organized at the 32nd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, July 2014, Delft, Netherlands.
Eker S (2013). Dealing with uncertainties in the Dutch gas sector. Technology, Management, and Policy Consortium Meeting, June 2013, Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.