Raquel Guimaraes
Research Scholar
Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group
Population and Just Societies Program
Research Scholar
Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Raquel Guimaraes is a research scholar in the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. She is also a member of the Migration and Sustainable Development Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program.
At IIASA, Guimaraes is participating in research with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, where she is analyzing climate resilience data focusing on wellbeing outcomes. Through her work, she seeks to provide evidence-based insight for academics, NGOs and other partners, as well as policymaking.
Her research interests include demographic analysis, applied econometrics, development economics, and the intersection of population and environmental change.
She earned her degree in economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil (2007). She also holds a master's degree in demography from UFMG (2010) and a second master's degree in comparative international education from Stanford University (2012). In addition, she completed her PhD in demography at UFMG in 2014 and has undertaken postdoctoral research at IIASA as part of the former World Population Program.
Last update: 17 APR 2025
Publications
Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Mechler, R. , Guimaraes, R. , Keating, A., Chapagain, D., Velev, S., Hyun, J.H. , & Clercq-Roques, R. (2026). Validation of latent and realised disaster resilience measurement across the globe. Insights from validating the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) approach. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA
Guimaraes, R. , Mechler, R. , Velev, S., & Chapagain, D. (2025). The effect of community resilience and disaster risk management cycle stages on morbi-mortality following floods: an empirical assessment. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 25 (10) 3803-3826. 10.5194/nhess-25-3803-2025.
Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Keating, A., Velev, S., Chapagain, D., Hyun, J.H. , Laurien, F. , Guimaraes, R. , Clercq-Roques, R., & Mechler, R. (2025). Assessing Community Resilience: Validating a Universally Applicable Flood Resilience Measurement Framework and Tool. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 16 891-902. 10.1007/s13753-025-00652-3.
Lutz, W. , Reiter, C. , Özdemir, C., Yildiz, D. , Guimaraes, R. , & Goujon, A. (2021). Skills-adjusted human capital shows rising global gap. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (7) e2015826118. 10.1073/pnas.2015826118.
Reiter, C. , Özdemir, C., Yildiz, D. , Goujon, A. , Guimaraes, R. , & Lutz, W. (2020). The Demography of Skills-Adjusted Human Capital. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-20-006