Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

Senior Research Scholar

Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group

Advancing Systems Analysis Program

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

Michel-Kerjan, E., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Kunreuther, H., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Mechler, R. , Muir-Wood, R., Ranger, N., Vaziri, P., & Young, M. (2013). Catastrophe risk models for evaluating disaster risk reduction investments in developing countries. Risk Analysis 33 (6) 984-999. 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01928.x.

Helgeson, J.F., Dietz, S., & Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2013). Vulnerability to weather disasters: The choice of coping strategies in rural Uganda. Ecology and Society 18 (2) 10.5751/ES-05390-180202.

Hochrainer-Stigler, S. & Mechler, R. (2013). Assessing financial adaptation strategies to extreme events in Europe. In: Long-Term Governance for Social-Ecological Change. Eds. Siebenhuener, B, Arnold, M, Eisenack, K, & Jacob, KH, Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-63352-9

Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Pflug, G.C. , & Lugeri, N. (2013). Flood risk in a changing climate: A multilevel approach for risk management. In: Integrated Catastrophe Risk Modeling: Supporting Policy Processes. Eds. Amendola, A, Ermolieva, T, Linnerooth-Bayer, J, & Mechler, R , Dordrecht: Springer. 10.1007/978-94-007-2226-2_16.

Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Dubel, J., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Kryda, S., Lschewski, L., & Sendzimir, J. (2013). Impact analysis of climate change on drought/flood risk, and relevant non-climate policies and their implementation, and consequences for agriculture and ecosystems. Deliverable 4.2, FP7 RESPONSES Project - European Responses to Climate Change (26 January 2013)