Robert Sakic Trogrlic

Senior Research Scholar

Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group

Advancing Systems Analysis Program

Biography

Robert Sakic Trogrlic is a Senior Research Scholar in the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program, where he leads a thematic research line on co-production, engagement, and experiential learning. His research explores multi-hazards and their interactions within multi-risk frameworks, people-centered disaster risk reduction, and knowledge co-production, with a particular emphasis on bridging physical and social sciences to strengthen evidence for disaster and climate policy and practice.

He leads IIASA’s involvement and work packages across several international initiatives, including Pathways2Resilience on regional climate resilience, UNDERPIN on measuring adaptation outcomes, ANTICIPATE on multi-hazard early warning systems, and REACH on qualitative analysis of resilience to floods and heat within maternal and child health systems in Brazil and Zambia.

Sakic Trogrlic serves on the Steering Committee of the Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (RISK KAN), co-coordinating a working group on Early Warning Systems, and is on the editorial board of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS). Previously, he worked at King’s College London and with an international development NGO Practical Action. He has also consulted and collaborated with organizations such as the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and the Netherlands Red Cross 510 Data Initiative. He holds a PhD from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, and master’s degrees in flood risk management (IHE Delft, Netherlands and TU Dresden, Germany) and civil engineering (University of Split, Croatia).

Last update: 16 FEB 2026

Publications

Sakic Trogrlic, R. , Malamud, B., Thompson, H., Taylor, F., Hussain, E., Gill, J., Mentese, E., Öner, E., Mwangi, E., & Bukachi, V. (2023). Multi-hazard interrelationships and dynamic risk scenarios in urban areas: a case of Nairobi and Istanbul. In: NEEDS, 31 October-2 November 2023, Twente, Netherlands.

Sakic Trogrlic, R. , Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , & Reiter, K. (2023). From single to multi and systemic risks: a unifying framework for risk assessment and management. In: adaptation futures 2023, 2-6 October, 2023, Montreal, Canada.

Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Šakić Trogrlic, Robert , Reiter, K., Ward, P.J., de Ruiter, M.C., Duncan, M.J., Torresan, S., Ciurean, R., Mysiak, J., Stuparu, D., & Gottardo, S. (2023). Towards a framework for systemic multi-hazard and multi-risk assessment and management. iScience 26 (5) e106736. 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106736.

Filippi, M.E., Barcena, A., Sakic Trogrlic, R. , Cremen, G., Menteşe, E.Y., Gentile, R., Creed, M.J., Jenkins, L.T., Kalaycioglu, M., Poudel, D.P., Muthusamy, M., Manandhar, V., Adhikari, S., Rai, M., Dhakal, A., Barake, B., Tarbali, K., Galasso, C., & McCloskey, J. (2023). Interdisciplinarity in practice: Reflections from early-career researchers developing a risk-informed decision support environment for Tomorrow's cities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 85 e103481. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103481.

Cremen, G., Galasso, C., McCloskey, J., Barcena, A., Creed, M., Filippi, M.E., Gentile, R., Jenkins, L.T., Kalaycioglu, M., Mentese, E.Y., Muthusamy, M., Tarbali, K., & Sakic Trogrlic, R. (2023). A state-of-the-art decision-support environment for risk-sensitive and pro-poor urban planning and design in Tomorrow's cities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 85 e103400. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103400.