Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
Principal Research Scholar
Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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
Birghila, C., Pflug, G , & Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2022). Risk‐layering and optimal insurance uptake under ambiguity: With an application to farmers exposed to drought risk in Austria. Risk Analysis 1-17. 10.1111/risa.13884.
Reiter, K., Knittel, N., Bachner, G., & Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2022). Barriers and Ways Forward to Climate Risk Management Against Indirect Effects of Natural Disasters: A Case Study on Flood Risk in Austria. Climate Risk Management 36 e100431. 10.1016/j.crm.2022.100431.
Sillmann, J., Christensen, I., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Huang-Lachmann, J., Juhola, S., Kornhuber, K., Mahecha, M., Mechler, R. , Reichstein, M., Ruane, A.C., Schweizer, P.-J., & Wiliiams, S. (2022). ISC-UNDRR-RISK KAN Briefing note on systemic risk. International Science Council , Paris, France. 10.24948/2022.01.
Reiter, K., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Bachner, G., Knittel, N., & Poledna, S. (2022). Indirect flood risk management in Austria: Challenges and ways forward. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz
Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Zhu, Q., Ciullo, A., & Reiter, K. (2022). Research for REGI Committee – EU tools to respond to natural disasters. European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies , Brussels.