Elisa Nobile

Biography

Elisa Nobile is a research assistant in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. She contributes to Disrupt-SC, a spatially explicit agent-based model that simulates how transport infrastructure disruptions alter the flow of goods across supply chains, and how these perturbations propagate to affect households, firms, and international trade. Her work helps advance the model as a tool to analyze systemic risk, cascading impacts, and the role of policy interventions in shaping more resilient global value chains.

In addition to her role at IIASA, she is also a PhD candidate at Scuola Superiore Studi IUSS in Pavia, Italy, focusing on sustainable development and climate change. Her research focuses on the indirect and cascading impacts of floods on economic systems, with a special interest in how infrastructure disruptions affect supply chains.

She holds a master’s degree in civil engineering for mitigation of risk from natural hazards. In the past, she worked on flood risk for cultural heritage in Portugal and Italy. Her goal is to develop risk assessment tools that capture both direct and indirect impacts to support more resilient systems.

Last update: 10 SEP 2025