
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Principal Research Scholar
Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Biography
Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler is a principal research scholar in the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program, and the leader of the Systemic Risk Analysis and Modeling theme. He is a member of the board of directors of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society and the board of directors for the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI). He studied statistics with a focus on mathematical statistics at the Department of Statistics and Decision Support Systems and Sociology, Empirical Branch, at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna.His main research interests include risk management of systemic risk and extreme events such as natural disasters in developing countries, statistical (stochastic) modeling of rare and systemic events, extreme value theory, dependency of risks using copula approaches, econometrics, and multivariate analysis. His research has been widely published in a number of books, book chapters, and articles in major peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature and Global Environmental Change.
Hochrainer-Stigler is regularly invited to speak at major scientific conferences and insurance meetings. As part of his work, he facilitated and participated in multiple high-level workshops in the Caribbean, Madagascar, Turkey, the Philippines, India, and Mexico.
Last update: 19 FEB 2025
Publications
Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Mechler, R. , Higuera-Roa, O. , Bachmann, M. , Šakić Trogrlić, R. , Handmer, J. , & Dieckmann, U. (2025). Understanding multiple resilience dividends and system boundaries in disaster- and climate-risk management: a systems approach for enhanced decision-making. Environmental Research Letters 20 (4) e044026. 10.1088/1748-9326/adac7a.
Zhu, Q., Yokomatsu, M., & Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2025). Managing Sovereign Climate Risk in Vulnerable Developing Countries: Smart Support Guidance for Donors and Policy Makers. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-21950. In: EGU General Assembly 2025, 27 April-02 May 2025, Vienna.
Keating, A., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Mechler, R. , Laurien, F. , Rubenstein, N., Deubelli, T. , Velev, S., Szoenyi, M., & Nash, D. (2025). Reflections on the large-scale application of a community resilience measurement framework across the globe. Climate Services 38 e100562. 10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100562.
Chapagain, D., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Velev, S., Keating, A., & Mechler, R. (2025). Realized Resilience After Community Flood Events: A Global Empirical Study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 118 e105246. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105246.
Parviainen, J., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Cumiskey, L., Bharwani, S., Schweizer, P.-J., Hofbauer, B., & Cubie, D. (2024). The Risk-Tandem Framework: an iterative framework for combining risk governance and knowledge co-production toward integrated disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 116 e105070. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105070.