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Professor Ricarda Winkelmann

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Department

Earth System Analysis

Ice Dynamics

Earth Resilience (ERSU)

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

T +49 (0)331 288 2559

ricarda[at]pik-potsdam.de

P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam

winkelmann-office@gea.mpg.de

Professor of Climate System Analysis at PIK and University of Potsdam
Member of the Earth Commission
Co-Lead of FutureLab on Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene
Lead of Working Group on Ice Dynamics
Lead-PI of Leibniz Project DominoES
PI & Scientific Steering Committee within EU-H2020 project TiPACCs
PI & Scientific Steering Committee within EU-H2020 project PROTECT
PI & Scientific Steering Committee within Climate Modeling Initiative PalMod II
Lead of DFG projects VAST, GEOLQUEA, XMELT, GIS-TIP, HASH, PISM-FESOM
Co-developer of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model PISM and Ice Shelf Cavity Model PICO
Contributing Author to IPCC-AR5 Chapter on Sea-Level Change
Lead of interdisciplinary Expedition Anthropocene to the Andes with the German Young Academy
Scientific expeditions to Antarctica ANT-XXVII/2 and ANT-XXXIII/2 on research vessel Polarstern

Find my full publication list here.

Tipping Points in Antarctic Climate Components (EU H2020: TiPACCs)
PROjecTing sEa-level rise: from iCe sheets to local implicaTions (EU H2020: PROTECT)
Vulnerability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a changing thermocline (DFG-SPP 1158: VAST)
Glacial and erosional contributions to Late Quaternary uplift of the European Alps (DFG SPP 4D-MB: GEOLQUEA)
Impact of extreme melt events on the future mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet (DFG: XMELT)
On the importance of rapid dynamics for the stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet (DFG: GIS-TIP)
Hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (DFG-SPP 1158: HASH)
Constraining future Antarctic ice loss with the coupled ice-ocean model PISM-FESOM (DFG-SPP 1158: PISM-FESOM)

Domino effects in the Earth system: can Antarctica tip climate policy? (Leibniz Association: DominoES)
PalMod II WG1.4 Key Processes TP2: Ice sheets/shelves interacting with the solid earth and ocean in the
Antarctic (PalMod 2 WP 1.4)
PalMod II CC.1 Model Coupling and Runtime Optimisation TP4: Development of the PICO ice shelf cavity
model into a “pop-up” model for use in transient glacial simulations (PalMod 2 CC.1)

Since 2019: Member of the Earth Commission (established by Future Earth and the Global Commons Alliance)
2019 - 2020: Board member of the German Young Academy of Science
2018: Young Scientist of the Year by academics and ZEIT publishing group
2018: Panelist at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum (with Keynote speaker Al Gore and panelists Director-General José Graziano da Silva, Professor Katharine Hayhoe and Dr. Thina Margrethe Saltvedt)
2017: EGU Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award, Cryospheric Division, European Geosciences Union
2017: Karl-Scheel-Prize, awarded by the German Physical Society, Berlin
2017: Teaching award by University of Potsdam: ‘E-Learning UP‘
2016, 2017: Young Elite Award “Top 40 under 40 in Science” by Capital
2016: 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Speaker for the Master Class on Climate Change led by Prof. Steven Chu
2015 - 2020: Member of the Young Academy of Science
2015 – 2016: Excellence in Teaching Certificate, Senior Teaching Professionals Program
2015 – 2016: Complementary Profile Development Certificate by Potsdam Research Network Pearls, including 'Leading Teams in Academia'
2013: Publication Award for Young Scientists by Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam
2010 – 2012: Member of the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM)