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Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

Senior Research Scholar

Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group

Advancing Systems Analysis Program

Biography

Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler is a senior research scholar with the Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) research group at IIASA, 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). Dr. Hochrainer-Stigler 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, 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. He has published widely, including a number of books, book chapters and articles in major peer-reviewed journals such as Nature and Global Environmental Change. Dr. Hochrainer-Stigler is a regularly invited speaker at major scientific conferences and insurance meetings and has also facilitated and participated in high-level workshops in the Caribbean, Madagascar, Turkey, the Philippines, India and Mexico.

Last update: 23 FEB 2021

Publications

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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 e105070. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105070. (In Press)

Schlumberger, J., Šakić Trogrlić, R., Aerts, J.C.J.H., Hyun, J.-H., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., de Ruiter, M., & Haasnoot, M. (2024). A Pathways Analysis Dashboard prototype for multi-risk systems. EGUsphere 10.5194/egusphere-2024-3655. (Submitted)

Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Šakić Trogrlić, R., & Reiter, K. (2024). Multi‐risk instruments for emergency response: a multi‐hazard and multi‐risk assessment of the European Union's Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve. Disasters e12650. 10.1111/disa.12650.

Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Sakic Trogrlic, R., & Reiter, K. (2024). Fiscal resilience over time and its management in the context of multi-risks: an application to the Danube Region. Natural Hazards 10.1007/s11069-024-06678-y.

Sakic Trogrlic, R., Reiter, K., Ciurean, R.L., Gottardo, S., Torresan, S., Daloz, A., Ma, L., Padrón Fumero, N., Tatman, S., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., de Ruiter, M.C., Schlumberger, J., Harris, R., Garcia-Gonzalez, S., García-Vaquero, M., Arévalo, T., Hernandez-Martin, R., Mendoza-Jimenez, J., Ferrario, D., Geurts, D., Stuparu, D., Tiggeloven, T., Duncan, M., & Ward, P. (2024). Challenges in assessing and managing multi-hazard risks: A European stakeholders perspective. Environmental Science & Policy 157 e103774. 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103774.