Arnaud Mignan’s 2025 textbook, Introduction to Catastrophe Risk Modelling: A Physics-based Approach, published by Cambridge University Press, has been awarded the 2026 PROSE Award in the Environmental Science category. Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards) have recognized the very best in professional and scholarly publishing each year by celebrating the authors, editors, and publishers whose landmark works have made significant advancements in their respective fields of study. 

The winning textbook forms the basis for the 2025–2027 SCOR Foundation project A Generic Multi-Risk (GenMR) Open-Source Platform to Model Compound Catastrophes, which is led by Arnaud Mignan’s company, Mignan Risk Analytics GmbH, along with collaborators from the University of Lisbon. This project develops an open-source platform that stimulates compound catastrophes from first physical principles, capturing the risks that emerge from complex interactions in a virtual environment. The platform builds on the earlier CAT Risk Modelling Sandbox, which was released as an online resource to complement the Cambridge University Press textbook. The 2025-2027 SCOR Foundation GenMR project further expands the work of both the textbook and the sandbox by implementing around twenty peril models, most of which are described in the book.
 

Arnaud Mignan is CEO and principal investigator of Mignan Risk Analytics GmbH, a consulting firm in catastrophe risk modelling founded in 2023. In parallel, he served as Lead Specialist at the World Bank (2023-2024). He was previously an Associate Professor at the Institute of Risk Analysis, Prediction and Management (Risks-X), Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen (2020-2022), and a Guest Professor at the Risk Center of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich, 2022). During this three-year period, he created and taught the course Introduction to Catastrophe Risk Modelling, which led to the publication of a textbook of the same name with Cambridge University Press (2024). Earlier, Arnaud worked for over a decade as a Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, following four years as a Senior Catastrophe Risk Modeller at Risk Management Solutions (RMS), London (2006-2010). He earned his PhD in Geophysics in 2006 from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP).

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