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.
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]
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]
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