From PhD student to director in just 10 years: After her excellent doctorate at PIK, the mathematician and physicist Ricarda Winkelmann worked, among other things, on the chapter on sea-level rise in the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A research stay of several months took her to the renowned Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford in the USA. In 2014, Winkelmann was appointed junior professor by the University of Potsdam and PIK, where she has been a professor of climate system analysis since 2020.
With research areas ranging from the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland to tipping elements of the climate system, Ricarda Winkelmann has been a member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She is part of the Earth Commission and heads a research group on ice dynamics at PIK as well as the Future Lab Resilience in the Anthropocene.
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https://ricarda.science/
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