Robert Sakic Trogrlic

Biography

Robert Sakic Trogrlic is a research scholar in the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. He leads a thematic research line on co-production, engagement, and experiential learning. His research interests include multi-hazards and their interactions within multi-risk frameworks, people-centered disaster risk reduction, knowledge co-production, and innovative approaches for integrating physical and social sciences in disaster and climate research, policy, and practice.

In addition, he leads the Danube Pilot within the MYRIAD-EU Project, which advances multi-risk-informed management across the EU, as well as IIASA’s involvement in the Pathways2Resilience (P2R) Project, helping European regions and communities build climate resilience. He also co-leads Work Package 2 in the REACH Project, focusing on building resilience to floods and heat within maternal and child health systems in Brazil and Zambia.

Sakic Trogrlic is a member of the Steering Committee of the Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (RISK KAN), where he co-coordinates a working group on Early Warning Systems. He also serves on the editorial board of the European Geosciences Union journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).

Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, researching multi-hazard interactions for future urban resilience. He also worked as a climate and resilience officer with Practical Action, an international development NGO, and served as vice president of the Water Youth Network, where he co-founded the Disaster Risk Reduction Team. He has consulted and collaborated with organizations such as the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and the Netherlands Red Cross 510 Data Initiative.

In 2020, he completed his PhD at Heriot-Watt University, with a thesis on the role of local knowledge in community-based disaster risk reduction in Malawi. Originally trained as a civil engineer (bachelor’s and master’s from the University of Split, Croatia), he also holds an interdisciplinary master’s degree in Flood Risk Management from IHE Delft, the Netherlands.


Last update: 28 NOV 2024