Anton Pichler

I am an Assistant Professor in Supply Chain Analytics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). I am also a member of the associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub, an an affiliated researcher at Macrocosm, and affiliated with the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford.

I build data-driven computational models — agent-based, network, and machine learning — to study how firms and supply chains cope with large shocks and structural transitions, from pandemics to energy crises, and climate disasters.

A unifying thread is heterogeneity: who bears the costs of disruption, who benefits from transitions, and how distributional outcomes depend on the structure of supply networks, technological changes, and firm behavior.

News

February 2026. Book published with SFI Press.

The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV (co-edited with del Rio-Chanona, Pangallo, Bednar, Beinhocker, Kaszowska-Mojsa, Lafond, Mealy, and Farmer).

February 2026. New publication in Energy Economics.

Five stylized facts on ownership, specialization, and investment in global power assets.

January 2026. New working paper (with Robin Fischer).

The widening profitability gap between renewable and fossil power firms in Europe.

October 2025. New publication in PNAS.

The power of bridging decision scales: Model coupling for advanced climate policy analysis.

May 2025. I have been guest editing a special issue in JEBO.

Check out the Introduction here.

February 2025. New publication in Joule.

Employment dynamics in a rapid decarbonization of the US power sectors.