December 13, 2024 (Friday), 16:00 JST
Hybrid: Mirai Crea Small Conference Room No. 3 & Zoom
About the Session
Since 1977, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) has hosted the prestigious Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP), welcoming up to 50 doctoral students from around the world each summer. This three-month program is designed for advanced PhD students—typically two years away from completing their degrees— working on a topic that is compatible with ongoing research at IIASA and who wish to explore the policy implications of their work
YSSP participants work closely with experienced IIASA scientists, immersing themselves in a unique, interdisciplinary, and international research environment. Fellows contribute to the academic community by producing a research paper, which serves as the foundation for a publishable journal article. Additionally, the program offers valuable networking opportunities, allowing participants to build connections with a global network of experts for potential future collaborations.
The 2025 YSSP will take place from June 2 to August 29, 2025, with the opportunity for participants to finalize their research papers in September.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ali Kharrazi is a Senior Research Scholar at the Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Research Group of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and also serves as a visiting Associate Professor at the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS) of Hiroshima University. His overarching research interest concerns the sustainability challenges of coupled economic-environmental systems, and more specifically, the development of models and metrics that can evaluate the resilience of critical global resource networks to shocks and disturbances. Ali has lectured on human-environmental systems, corporate sustainability, and sustainable science at The University of Tokyo and Akita International University in Japan. He holds numerous editorial board positions in sustainability-focused journals and is the editor-in-chief of Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. He has received prestigious competitive research funding, most notably from the Belmont Forum, Horizon Europe, and the Marie Curie Fellowship. In addition to his roles in academia, Ali engages the science-policy interface previously as a consultant to UN agencies on food and resource trade networks and currently as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Nexus Assessment Report.
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