Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Senior Research Scholar
Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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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
Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Bachner, G., Knittel, N., Poledna, S., Reiter, K., & Bosello, F. (2024). Risk management against indirect risks from disasters: A multi-model and participatory governance framework applied to flood risk in Austria. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 106 e104425. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104425.
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.
Yokomatsu, M., Zhu, Q., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., & Mechler, Reinhard (2023). Developing a model of disaster policies and the sovereign debt sustainability. In: The 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Integrated Disaster Risk Management, 28-30 September 2023, Roorkee, India.
Theron, S.N., Midgley, S., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Archer, E., Tramberend, S. , & Walker, S. (2023). Agricultural resilience and adaptive capacity during severe drought in the Western Cape, South Africa. Regional Environmental Change 23 (3) e98. 10.1007/s10113-023-02091-6.
Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Zhu, Q., Ciullo, A., Peisker, J. , & Van den Hurk, B. (2023). Differential Fiscal Performances of Plausible Disaster Events: A Storyline Approach for the Caribbean and Central American Governments under CCRIF. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 10.1007/s41885-023-00126-0.