Since May 2022, Christine is a working as a doctoral researcher in the group Long-Term Trajectories (LTT). Her research centers on the long-term Anthropocene, exploring future glacial inceptions over the next 100 kyr - 1 Myr under varying anthropogenic CO2 emission scenarios, and how this will affect nuclear waste storage solutions.
Contact
14412 Potsdam
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Christine Kaufhold studied Physics at the University of Waterloo, Canada with an emphasis on numerical modelling and environmental systems (e.g., oceanography, geosciences). After completing an internship on particle tracking for contaminant transport in the Department of Stochastic Simulation and Safety Research for Hydrosystems at Universität Stuttgart, she went on to finish her MSc. in Ocean and Climate Physics at Universität Hamburg. Her master's thesis was focused on characterizing regimes of weather forecasting uncertainty via explainable AI methods.
- REDUKLIM - Reduction of emission scenario uncertainty through climate modelling, providing long-term climate change scenarios
- Ocean Dynamics SoSe 2023/2024 tutorial session
Scheduled:
C. Kaufhold, M. Willeit, A. Ganopolski
Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), Incheon, South Korea
Current status of climate-related modelling for high-level radioactive waste disposal in Germany (invited)
C. Kaufhold, M. Willeit, A. Ganopolski
30th International Symposium on Polar Sciences (ISPS) 2025
20th Workshop on Antarctic Meteorology and Climate (WAMC) 2025, Incheon, South Korea
Impact of Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheet melting on sea level, regional climate, and future coastlines
Past:
C. Kaufhold, M. Willeit, G. Munhoven, V. Klemann, A. Ganopolski
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria
Magnitude of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and pre-industrial carbon cycle state as key factors which determine timing of the next glacial period
C. Kaufhold, M. Willeit, A. Ganopolski
Ocean Floor Symposium (MARUM) 2024, Bremen, Germany
Impact of anthropogenic CO2 on the next glacial inception (invited)
C. Kaufhold, M. Willeit, S. Talento, A. Ganopolski
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria
Uncertainties in climate sensitivity and residual carbon emissions permit for a hothouse climate ahead
C. Kaufhold, A. Ganopolski
safeND Interdisciplinary Research Symposium 2023, Berlin, Germany
Deep-future climate change scenarios for site selection of nuclear waste disposal in Germany
Press releases:
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. (2025, March 24). Amplified global heating risk due to climate and carbon cycle feedbacks [Press release]. https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/amplified-global-heating-risk-due-to-climate-and-carbon-cycle-feedbacks
Select articles:
New Scientist (2025, March 24). Even moderate CO2 emissions could lead to 7°C of warming by 2200 [News article]. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2473447-even-moderate-co2-emissions-could-lead-to-7c-of-warming-by-2200/
ZDFheute (2025, March 25). Wie stark wird sich die Erde erwärmen? [News article]. https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/klima-studie-erderwarrmung-staerker-100.html
