Warnings and Preparedness for a Riskier World

Robert Sakic Trogrlic

Robert Sakic Trogrlic is a research scholar in the Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. He leads a thematic research line on co-production, engagement, and experiential learning. His research interests include multi-hazards and their interactions within multi-risk frameworks, people-centered disaster risk reduction, knowledge co-production, and innovative approaches for integrating physical and social sciences in disaster and climate research, policy, and practice.
In addition, he leads the Danube Pilot within the MYRIAD-EU Project, which advances multi-risk-informed management across the EU, as well as IIASA’s involvement in the Pathways2Resilience (P2R) Project, helping European regions and communities build climate resilience. He also co-leads Work Package 2 in the REACH Project, focusing on building resilience to floods and heat within maternal and child health systems in Brazil and Zambia.

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Marleen de Ruiter

Marleen de Ruiter is an Assistant Professor at the department of Water and Climate Risk of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and she is co-chair of the RiskKAN network.
In her current research, she focuses on consecutive disasters, improving modelling capabilities of multi-hazard risk and assessing the impacts of adaptation measures on Disaster Risk Reduction. As a Veni Laureate from the Dutch Research Council’s Talent Scheme (NWO), she works on the global consecutive occurrence of consecutive disasters followed by water-borne disease outbreaks using a Dynamic Bayesian Network approach. In 2024, she was granted the EGU Natural Hazards Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist award.
She manages the EU H2020 project Myriad-EU on multi-hazard risk assessments and management, she was one of the initiators and the scientific officer of the EGU multi-hazard sub-division.

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Andrew Kruczkiewicz

Andrew Kruczkiewicz is a hydrometeorologist based in New York at Columbia University. At Columbia, Andrew is affiliated with the Climate School, National Center for Disaster Preparedness and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. His work focuses on forecasting extreme events, climate risk assessment, and integration of climate data within policy and decision making. Andrew conducts research on extreme weather and climate events focusing on both individual hazards, such as cyclones, floods as well as compound events. Andrew is Principal Investigator of sponsored research from NASA, The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, World Bank, International Organization for Migration and UN OCHA. He is faculty lecturer in the Columbia Climate School’s Climate and Society graduate program and is Co-Director of the Climate School Network: Sustainable and Resilient Living in an Era of Increasing Disasters. Andrew is Science Adviser at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center and is an adjunct researcher at the University of Twente in The Netherlands.