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
Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Laurien, F , Velev, S., Keating, A., & Mechler, R. (2020). Standardized disaster and climate resilience grading: A global scale empirical analysis of community flood resilience. Journal of Environmental Management 276 e111332. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111332.
Handmer, J. , Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Schinko, T. , Gaupp, F., & Mechler, R. (2020). The Australian wildfires from a systems dependency perspective. Environmental Research Letters 15 (12) e121001. 10.1088/1748-9326/abc0bc.
Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Colon, C. , Boza, G. , Poledna, S., Rovenskaya, E. , & Dieckmann, U. (2020). Enhancing Resilience of Systems to Individual and Systemic Risk: Steps toward An Integrative Framework. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 51 e101868. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101868.
Mechler, R. , Stevance, A.-S., Deubelli, T. , Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Scolobig, A., Irshaid, J., Handmer, J. , Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , & Schinko, T. (2020). Bouncing Forward Sustainably: Pathways to a post-COVID World. Governance for Sustainability. IIASA-ISC