The Working Groups of PIK's four Research Departments are:
Earth System Analysis
- Long-Term Dynamics of the Earth System
- Ice Dynamics
- Earth System Modes of Operation
- Ecosystems in Transition
- Terrestrial Safe Operating Space
- Whole Earth System Analysis
- Earth System Model Development
Climate Resilience
- Climate Change and Health
- Land Use and Resilience
- Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
- Forest and Ecosystem Resilience
- Hydroclimatic Risks
- Urban Transformations
Transformation Pathways
- Impacts of Climate Change on Human Population Dynamics
- Data-Centric Modeling of Cross-Sectoral Impacts
- Event-based modeling of economic impacts of climate change
- Macroeconomic modeling of climate change mitigation and impacts
- Land-Use Management
- Energy Systems
- Climate & Energy Policy
- Research Software Engineering for Transformation Pathways
Complexity Science
- Dynamics, stability and resilience of complex hybrid infrastructure networks
- Numerical analysis of global economic impacts
- Development of advanced time series analysis techniques
- Data-based analysis of climate decisions
- Network- and machine-learning-based prediction of extreme events
- Computational Methods and Visualisation
