Short biography

Anna Hornykewycz has been part of the ICAE team since 2019 and took over the position of a university assistant at the Socio-Ecological Transformation Lab (SET-Lab) in 2024. She studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Wien), where she wrote her bachelor's thesis on J.S. Mill's Economic Man and her master's thesis on the Critique of the Property Rights School. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Vienna.

Research interest

Anna's theoretical foundations lie in evolutionary institutional economics. She is passionate about all topics related to path-dependent development processes. Anna also contributes through her enthusiasm and expertise in computational methods, which she applies in diverse ways in her research without specializing exclusively in them. In numerous research projects, Anna has explored capability accumulation and path-dependent development, Minsky-Veblen cycles, socio-ecological transformation in the German building sector, and wealth distribution in Austria.

• agent-based modeling; input-output modeling; literature analysis; socio-ecological transformation; capability accumulation; mobility transition; heating transition

Teaching experience

Anna considers teaching an integral part of her role as a researcher. In addition to delivering a variety of courses and supervising numerous bachelor's theses at Johannes Kepler University (JKU), she has also served as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. Furthermore, she is actively involved in the JKU Science Holidays program and regularly conducts workshops for school classes.

• scientific writing, history of economic thought, institutional economics, ecological economics