Katja Matthes

Katja Matthes (born September 23, 1975 in Berlin ) is a German climate scientist . She is a professor at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Life

Matthes completed a degree in meteorology from 1995 to 2000 at the Free University of Berlin , which she graduated with a diploma. She did her PhD in 2003 with Karin Labitzke and Ulrich Cubasch . From 2004 to 2007 and 2008, respectively, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and at the Free University of Berlin. She then worked at the Helmholtz Center Potsdam - German Research Center for Geosciences . Since 2012 she has held a professorship at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In addition to her work and membership in various committees, she has been chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics since 2018 . In addition to various other awards, she received the Ernst Reuter Prize from the Free University of Berlin in 2004 .

On October 1, 2020, she will take over the management of GEOMAR .

Matthes is married and has three children.

Act

Matthes' research focuses on the role of the middle atmosphere (upper troposphere , lower stratosphere ) in natural climate variability . It deals with the understanding and measurability of the role of the solar cycle for decadal climate variability and predictability.

Publications (selection)

• Katja Matthes: The influence of the 11-year sunspot cycle and the QBO on the atmosphere - a model study . Dissertation, Free University of Berlin, 2003.
• Katja Matthes u. a .: Solar forcing for CMIP6 (v3.2) . In: Geoscientific Model Development . Volume 10, 2017, pp. 2247-2302.
• Katja Matthes, Yuhji Kuroda, Kunihiko Kodera, Ulrike Langematz: Transfer of the solar signal from the stratosphere to the troposphere: Northern winter . In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres . Volume 111, No. D6, 2006.
• Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster, Katja Matthes, Fabrizio Sassi, Harry van Loon: Amplifying the Pacific climate system response to a small 11-year solar cycle forcing . In: Science . Volume 325, No. 5944, 2009, pp. 1114-1118.

Web links

• Literature by and about Katja Matthes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Katja Matthes  in the German Digital Library
• GEOMAR website for Katja Matthes
• Petra Schellen: Katja Matthes on climate and gendering: "As a woman you have to be robust". In: The daily newspaper . July 13, 2020 (interview). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Prof. Dr. Katja Matthes. GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, October 26, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Petra Schellen: Katja Matthes on climate and gendering: "As a woman you have to be robust" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 13, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on July 13, 2020]).
3. ↑ Katja Matthes. WCRP, accessed January 27, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Katja Matthes: The influence of the 11-year sunspot cycle and the QBO on the atmosphere - a model study . 2003 ( fu-berlin.de [accessed January 27, 2019]).