Christian Diem

Biography

Christian Diem is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at INET Oxford and the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment. In his MSCA project – funded by UKRI – he investigates how shocks in firm-level production networks propagate empirically and how the resulting empirical estimates can improve the performance of economic simulation models.

He aims to better understand economic and financial systems with tools from economics, network science, and agent-based computer simulations. His work ranges from quantifying systemic risk in large-scale firm-level supply networks, reconstructing the Austrian food supply chain network, extending financial stress testing to include supply chain effects, and optimally rewiring interbank networks to reduce systemic risk.

Christian's research has been featured on national TV, radio and major news papers in Austria. He is one of the lead organisers of the firmnets interdisciplinary workshop series on firm-level supply networks (https://firmnets2022.csh.ac.at). He acquired and contributed to projects funded by UKRI, the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF).

Christian holds a master’s degree in Quantitative Finance and a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences both from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Previously he was a Senior Scientist in the Network Economics, Supply Chains & Financial Markets Group at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and worked in policy projects with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture.

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