Gustav Feichtinger
Info
Research Group: Population Economics
Job Title: Research Group Leader
Phone: +431 58801 11927
Fax: +43 1 58801 11999
E-mail: or@server.eos.tuwien.ac.at
Education
- Studies in Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy at the University of Vienna (1958-1963)
- Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebra) at the University of Vienna (1963)
Professional Career
- Research assistant at the IBM Research Laboratory in Vienna (1963-1965)
- Assistant and Associate Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Bonn, Germany (1965-1972)
- Full Professor for Operations Research at the Vienna University of Technology (since 1972)
- Head of the Research Unit 'Formal Demography' at the Institute for Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1977-2002)
- Senior Researcher at the Research Unit 'Population Economics' at the Vienna Institute for Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2002)
Research Interests
- Dynamic Optimization:
- Optimal Control Models in Economics and Demography
- Dynamic Games in Socio-Economics
- Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
- Applications in Economics, Sociology, Environmental Planning
- Dynamics and Control of 'Deviant Behaviour':
- Economics of Crime
- Corruption and Illicit Drugs
- Violence and Terrorism
- Population Dynamics
- Age-structured & vintage models
- The demography of small populations
Projects
- Complex behaviour of optimal control models, multiple equilibria and persistent oscillations
- Vintage models and distributed parameter control
- Illicit drugs: 3rd generation models
- Dynamic and control of terroristic activities
- Ageing of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, comparison with other learned societies.
Selected Publications
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