Meet the team: Denis Havlik

Denis Havlik is a Scientist at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and the leader of Work Package 4-Case studies: implementation, replicability and exploitation. Find out more about his role in the project:

• What is ICARIA for you? For me, ICARIA is mainly a chance to explore how and to what extent regional multi-hazard climate resilience and adaptation assessments across Europe can be made more affordable for cities and regions. Like many EU projects, ICARIA invests heavily in modelling future hazards, their impacts on assets, and local adaptations for its trial regions in Austria, Greece, and Spain—a complex task, especially for multi-hazard scenarios. While such information would benefit all European regions, replicating this intensive effort elsewhere isn’t financially feasible. Identifying the essential data, finding cost-effective ways to fill data gaps, and assessing how studies in one region can be adapted to others with much less effort is, in my view, crucial for fact-based sustainable regional development.

• ICARIA in three words: Make climate-proofing of critical assets replicable.

• What is your role in ICARIA? I am the leader of Work Package 4 — Case studies: implementation, replicability, and exploitation. This work package is responsible for testing and validating ICARIA’s methods and tools for hazard and resilience assessment, including evaluating their usability and replicability, as well as developing the sustainability and exploitation plan.