He is Deputy Program Leader with the World Population Program (POP) at IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) since 2013 and Leader of the Population Dynamics and Forecasting Group at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2002.
He is further director of demographic analysis at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital since 2011 and guest professor at the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Dr. Scherbov is author, co-author, or co-editor of several books as well as numerous articles published in professional journals, including Nature, Science, and Population and Development Review.
Among other things, the project will ascertain the extent to which advanced societies are actually ageing in multiple dimensions, including health, cognitive abilities, and longevity.
By addressing such fundamental issues this project will likely have a pronounced impact on future population ageing research.