Join us for sessions featuring inspiring speakers tackling contested issues in the risk and resilience space. The hub proceeds mostly online, with a few events hosted personally at IIASA. A chance to learn, and be part of critical conversations.
Risk&Resilience Hub - seminars and presentations
- Christian Huggel, University Zurich: The RWE climate litigation case: challenges for science to support legal cases and perspectives for climate justice.
- Bruce Malamud, Durham University: Visualizing multi-hazard resilience.
- Solene Dengler and Jun Rentschler, World Bank: Economics for Disaster Prevention and Preparedness.
- Prof. David Stainforth, London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Warwick, Department of Physics: “Predicting Our Climate Future: what we know, what we don’t know, and what we can’t know”.
- Dr Nicholas Simpson, Co-Director of the Climate Risk Lab, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town: Understanding Systemic Risk and Resilience of Coastal Cities.
- Professor Rob Wilby, Professor of Hydroclimatic Modelling, Loughborough University: Joint Seminar with the SYRR Risk & Resilience Hub with the AI for Climate Science: Can ChatGPT do my climate job? Talk scheduled for Dec 10th 2025 at IIASA
- Dr. Mariana de Brito, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): NLP in climate extremes research: from impacts to adaptation. Talk scheduled for Dec 18th at IIASA.
Global hubs with IIASA contribution
- RISK KAN: Knowledge-Action Network (KAN) on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events
- 7th Global Summit of GADRI 21-23 July 2025: Converging Disaster Research and Stakeholder-Engagement for Resilience.
- IDRIM 2025: Advancing disaster risk reduction in islands and remote areas
- Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction: In an era of polycrisis, where multiple risks emerge simultaneously and impact systems at all levels, addressing systemic risks is essential for resilience. This session, co-organized by IIASA SYRR researchers for the UNDRR’s Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction highlights how governments are evolving risk understanding through systems thinking and the crucial role of local stakeholders in this process.