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

Poledna, S., Rovenskaya, E. , Dieckmann, U. , Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , & Linkov, I. (2020). Systemic Risk Emerging from Interconnections: The Case of Financial Systems. In: Systemic Thinking for Policy Making: The Potential of Systems Analysis for Addressing Global Policy Challenges in the 21st Century. pp. 123-132 Paris, France: New Approaches to Economic Challenges, OECD Publishing. ISBN 978-92-64-49456-5 10.1787/879c4f7a-en.

Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Balkovic, J. , Silm, K., & Timonina-Farkas, A. (2019). Large scale extreme risk assessment using copulas: an application to drought events under climate change for Austria. Computational Management Science 16 651-669. 10.1007/s10287-018-0339-4.

Gaupp, F., Hall, J., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , & Dadson, S. (2019). Changing risks of simultaneous global breadbasket failure. Nature Climate Change 10 (1) 54-57. 10.1038/s41558-019-0600-z.

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.