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. & Poledna, S. (2016). Modelling Dependent Risk With Copulas: An Application On Flooding Using Agent-Based Modelling. Geoinformatics Research Papers 4 (BS4002) 10.2205/2016BS01Sochi.

Mechler, R. & Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2016). Revisiting Arrow-Lind: Managing Sovereign Disaster Risk. In: Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics Revisited. Eds. Gopalakrishnan, C., pp. 71-78 Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-90579-5

Aerts, J., Haer, T., Veldkamp, T., Colaco, M.C., Rego, F.C., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Mechler, R. , Kellermann, P., Feven, L., Mysiak, J., & Thieken, A. (2016). Risk assessment & information. In: Novel Multi-Sector Partnerships in Disaster Risk Management. Results of the ENHANCE project. Eds. Aerts, Jeroen & Mysiak, Jaroslav, pp. 32-48 Brussels, Belgium: EU FP7 project ENHANCE.

Schinko, T. , Mechler, R. , & Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2016). A methodological framework to operationalize Climate Risk Management: Managing sovereign climate-related extreme event risk in Austria. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 1-24. 10.1007/s11027-016-9713-0.

See, L. , McCallum, I. , Liu, W. , Keating, A., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. , Mochizuki, J. , Fritz, S. , Dugar, S., Arestegui, M., Szoenyi, M., Laso-Bayas, J.C. , Burek, P. , French, A., & Moorthy, I. (2016). The potential of crowdsourcing and mobile technology to support flood disaster risk reduction. In: European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, 17–22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria.