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
Mechler, R. & Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2019). Generating Multiple Resilience Dividends from Managing Unnatural Disasters in Asia: Opportunities for Measurement and Policy. ADB Economics Working Paper Series no.601. 10.22617/WPS190573-2.
Campbell, K.A., Laurien, F. , Czajkowski, J., Keating, A., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., & Montgomery, M. (2019). First insights from the Flood Resilience Measurement Tool: A large-scale community flood resilience analysis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 40 e101257. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101257.
Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Colon, C. , Boza, G. , Brännström, Å., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Pflug, G. , Poledna, S., Rovenskaya, E. , & Dieckmann, U. (2019). Measuring, modeling, and managing systemic risk: the missing aspect of human agency. Journal of Risk Research 1-17. 10.1080/13669877.2019.1646312.
Cooper, M.W., Brown, M.E., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Pflug, G. , McCallum, I. , Fritz, S. , Silva, J., & Zvoleff, A. (2019). Mapping the effects of drought on child stunting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences e201905228. 10.1073/pnas.1905228116.
Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Mechler, R. , & Cazabat, C. (2019). Points of no return - Estimating governments fiscal resilience to internal displacement. IDMC , Geneva, Switzerland.