The jury of the Potsdam Young Scientist Award particularly praised Annika Stechemesser’s exceptional ability to analyse large datasets and apply innovative methods from economics and machine learning. She analysed vast amounts of data, including from social media, navigation queries, and subway turnstiles. Her findings point to significant inequalities and limits in adaptation capabilities.
Her dissertation significantly contributes to a better understanding of the economic and social impacts of climate change, and has been published in seven articles in leading scientific journals such as The Lancet Planetary Health and Nature Climate Change. The award ceremony took place on 29th November 2024, as part of the “Einstein Day” of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in Potsdam. The prize is endowed with 5,000 Euro.
Annika Stechemesser studied mathematics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and mathematics for real-world systems at the University of Warwick, before completing her doctorate at the University of Potsdam and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), at the Research Department Complexity Science under the supervision of Leonie Wenz and Anders Levermann. Since 2023, she has been conducting research as a postdoctoral researcher at the Future Lab CERES with PIK Director Ottmar Edenhofer and Nicolas Koch, focusing on environmental economics.
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