Dr Stefan Schneiderbauer

Coordinator: Global Mountain Safeguard Research Programme, Eurac Research

Research Fellow at the Department of Geography (UFS)

T: +39 047 105 5373

E: schneiderbauer@ehs.unu.edu

Research:

I am affiliated as researcher to the ARU through the UFS Department of Geography. My research interests include climate and disaster risk management; social vulnerability and community resilience; and sustainable development in mountain regions.

My educational background is embedded in geoscience and the application of remote sensing techniques for natural resource management. I studied Geography at the University of Cologne (Germany) as well as at the Université Louvain‐La‐Neuve (Belgium), and obtained my PhD from the Department for Geosciences at the Free University Berlin (Germany) with a dissertation on populations’ risks and vulnerabilities to natural hazards. My main fields of research comprise climate-related risk analyses, dynamic exposure assessments, social vulnerabilities and community resilience, particularly within socio-ecological systems in mountain regions.

My interest in natural hazard-related exposure and vulnerabilities originate from my research work at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, where my work capitalised on the added value of space-borne data and information for assessing risks outside of the European Union.