I am a founding member of Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University. I lead ADRI’s research pillar on Human Capital and Development. In parallel, I work at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) since 2005 and currently lead a research group 'Modelling Human Capital Formation' at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, IIASA, Austria. My major research interests are: developing and applying multi-dimensional/multi-state population models in demographic analysis and projections with a particular focus on modeling human capital formation in education and health; and differential vulnerability at national and sub-national levels. I completed master's degree in Statistics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal (1997). Subsequently, I taught university statistics in Kathmandu and worked as a biostatistician at the Nepal Health Research Council. I received my PhD degree from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2009).
· Abel G.J., Barakat B., KC S., and Lutz W. 2016. Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals leads to lower world population growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1611386113 (Authors listed in alphabetical order)
· KC S & Lutz W (2014). The human core of the shared socioeconomic pathways: Population scenarios by age, sex and level of education for all countries to 2100. Global Environmental Change, published online (4 July 2014).
· Lutz W & KC S (2011). Global human capital: Integrating education and population. Science, 333(6042):587-592.
· KC S, Barakat B, Goujon A, Skirbekk V, Sanderson WC & Lutz W (2010). Projection of populations by level of educational attainment, age, and sex for 120 countries for 2005-2050. Demographic Research, 22(15):383-472.
· KC S & Lentzner H (2010). The effect of education on adult mortality and disability: A global perspective. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010, 8:201-235.
Professor, Shanghai University