Sandra is a Doctoral Researcher in the Working Group "Impacts of climate change on human population dynamics" in Research Department 3 and the Future Lab "Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration". Her research evolves are disaster-induced displacement with a particular focus on flood hazards and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Katja Frieler and Dr. Jacob Schewe
Department
Working Group
FutureLab / Science Unit
Contact
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
sandra.zimmermann@pik-potsdam.de[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam
14412 Potsdam
ORCID
Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam
Sandra holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Munich as well as an M.Sc. in Global Change Ecology and a degree in Environmental Law from the University of Bayreuth.
Submitted/Under Review:
Stalhandske, Zélie; Ruiter, Marleen; Chambers, Jonathan; Zimmermann, Sandra; Colón-González, Felipe J.; Sairam, Nivedita; Bresch, David N., Kropf; Chahan M. A Multi-Hazard Perspective of Climate-Related Health Risks. Under Review at the Lancet Planetary Health. Preprint available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4989189
Zimmermann, Sandra, Meiler Simona; Kam, Pui Man; Riedel, Lukas; Ottonelli, Daria; Mühlhofer, Evelyn; Kropf, Chahan M.; Trasforini, Eva; Rossi, Lauro; Ghizzoni, Tatiana; Rudari, Roberto; Ponserre, Sylvain; Bresch, David N.; Schewe, Jacob. Quantifying Flood-induced Human Displacement: A Multi-model Assessment in the Horn of Africa. Under Review at Nature Sustainability.
2024:
Sauer, Inga J., Mester, Benedikt, Frieler, Katja., Zimmermann, Sandra, Schewe, Jacob, Otto, Christina (2024). Limited progress in global reduction of vulnerability to flood impacts over the past two decades. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 239. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01401-y
Heinicke, Stefanie; Volkholz, Jan ; Schewe, Jacob; Gosling, Simon N.; Müller Schmied, Hannes; Zimmermann, Sandra; Mengel, Matthias; Sauer, Inga J.; Burek, Peter; Chang, Jinfeng; Kou-Giesbrecht, Sian; Grillakis, Manoli; Guillaumot, Luca; Hanasaki, Naota; Koutroulis, Aristeidis; Otta, Kedar; Qi, Wei; Satoh,Yusuke ; Stacke,Tobias; Yokohata, Tokuta; Frieler, Katja. Global hydrological models continue to overestimate river discharge. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad52b0
