Wiebke Jäger is an Assistant Professor at the department of Water and Climate Risk of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interest are centered on natural hazard risk and the use of statistical tools to understand the complex dynamics and interactions of physical and societal risk factors. Currently, she leads the work package on dynamics and feedbacks of risk drivers of the MYRIAD-EU project which focuses on multi-hazards and multi-risks.
Expertise
Probabilistic risk analysis, multi-hazards, compound events, uncertainty analysis, multivariate statistics, extreme value analysis, time series analysis
Education
2018: PhD, Hydraulic Engineering, TU Delft
2013: MSc Applied Mathematics, TU Delft
2013: MSc Engineering and Policy Analysis, TU Delft
2010: BSc Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zürich