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Anders Levermann, 2016

Anders Levermann (* 1973 in Bremerhaven ) is a German climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York. He is professor for the dynamics of the climate system at the Institute for Physics at the University of Potsdam .

biography

Levermann studied physics in Marburg . After completing his intermediate diploma , he completed his community service at the Givat Shaul psychiatric hospital in Jerusalem ( Israel ). He completed his physics studies in Kiel in 1999 with a thesis on the control of spatially extended chaotic systems. His Ph.D. received his theoretical physics from the Weizmann Institute in Israel in 2003 , after which he turned to climate dynamics. Since 2003 he has been researching at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research . In 2006 he also took up a junior professorship at the physics institute at the University of Potsdam , where he has been professor for the dynamics of the climate system since October 2007. In 2014 he was offered a professorship at Columbia University in New York. Although he refused this, he remained with the institute as an affiliated scientist.

Since 2004 he has been a co-author of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 . He was one of the lead authors of the sea level chapter in the panel's fifth assessment report . This chapter has been expanded in the sixth assessment report and now covers not only sea level but also the entire dynamics of the oceans and the cryosphere. In addition, Levermann advises representatives from politics and business on issues relating to climate change .

Numerous research stays have taken him to the USA, India and China. In his research he mainly deals with the so-called tipping processes in the climate system. Between 2012 and 2018, Levermann headed the research area Sustainable Solution Strategies at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research together with PIK chief economist Ottmar Edenhofer . There he deals with adaptation strategies for the global supply network. In an article in the journal Nature , he proposed an information system that depicts the world's supply flows, is publicly accessible and thus induces an adaptation of the supply network. Since January 2019 he has headed the Complexity Research department at the Potsdam Institute.

In August 2020, Levermann pointed out the urgency of the climate crisis and the need to transition to a completely emission-free economic system. He once said: “When I started researching, we were at 0.6 degrees warming, now it's between 1.1 and 1.2 degrees. That we have achieved so little even in the rich countries is really a bit depressing. "

He has been editor of the scientific journal Earth System Dynamics since 2017 . Its h-index is 35 in the Web of Science as of September 2019.

Publications (selection)

Web links

Commons : Anders Levermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nature.com/news/climate-economics-make-supply-chains-climate-smart-1.14636?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20140206
  2. ↑ www.zeean.net
  3. ↑ a b https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/klimawandel-emissions-energie-1.5005515
  4. ↑ Anders Levermann's Research ID profile . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Levermann, Anders
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German climate scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven