Ricarda Winkelmann (born 1985[1][2]) is a German mathematician, physicist, and climatologist. She is a professor of Climate System Analysis at Potsdam University and the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research. She studies interdependencies between climate, land ice, and the ocean.[1]

She is the 2017 winner of the Karl Scheel Prize.

Since July 1, 2023 she is founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology[3]

Education

Winkelmann has a PhD in physics from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The title of her dissertation was "The Future Sea-Level Contribution from Antarctica - Projections of Solid Ice Discharge". where she studied sea levels.[4][2]

In 2010-11 she took part in scientific expeditions to Antarctica aboard the research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute. In 2013 and 2014, she worked as a post-doc at the Stanford University's Carnegie Institution for Science[4] and at PIK.

She won the German Physical Society's Karl Scheel Prize in 2017 for her work on the impact of climate change on sea levels and the Antarctic ice sheet.[4]

Career

Since 2010, she developed the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) which is available as an Open-Source-Software model of the ice sheet.[5] Since 2020, Winkelmann is professor of climate system analysis at the University of Potsdam.[6][4]

In 2017, she won the European Geosciences Union's Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for her work linking glaciology and climate change.[7]

Publications

References

  1. ^ ""Sie hat eine ungeheure Neugier"". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  2. ^ a b Ronja Kolls (17 Sep 2020). "Ricarda Winkelman profile". Tagesspiegel.
  3. ^ "Ricarda Winkelmann wird Gründungsdirektorin am MPI für Geoanthropologie". Max Planck Society. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d "Physical Society of Berlin honors Ricarda Winkelmann — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research". www.pik-potsdam.de. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  5. ^ Authors, The PISM. "PISM". PISM. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  6. ^ "Universität Potsdam - Institut für Physik und Astronomie". www.physik.uni-potsdam.de. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  7. ^ "EGU Early Career Award for Ricarda Winkelmann — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research". www.pik-potsdam.de. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  8. ^ von Mirbach, Johan (15 Sep 2015). "Worst-case scenario for sea level rise: No more New York, Berlin or Shanghai | DW | 15.09.2015". DW.COM. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  9. ^ Garbe, Julius; Albrecht, Torsten; Levermann, Anders; Donges, Jonathan F.; Winkelmann, Ricarda (Sep 2020). "The hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet". Nature. 585 (7826): 538–544. Bibcode:2020Natur.585..538G. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2727-5. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 32968257. S2CID 221885420.
  10. ^ Edwards, Tamsin L.; Nowicki, Sophie; Marzeion, Ben; Hock, Regine; Goelzer, Heiko; Seroussi, Hélène; Jourdain, Nicolas C.; Slater, Donald A.; Turner, Fiona E.; Smith, Christopher J.; McKenna, Christine M. (May 2021). "Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise". Nature. 593 (7857): 74–82. Bibcode:2021Natur.593...74E. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03302-y. hdl:10023/24263. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 33953415. S2CID 233871029.

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