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Personal Details

Name
 Hermann Held
Nationality German
Office address
 Research Domain III - Sustainable Solutions
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
P.O. Box 601203
14412 Potsdam
Germany
Telephone
+49 331 288-2564
Fax
+49 331 288-2600
E-mail held@pik-potsdam.de

 

Academic Training

1996 PhD (summa cum laude) in Physics, University of Munich and Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Thesis: Quantum Chaos in Rydberg Atoms (with H. Walther)
1993 Diploma (distinction) at the University of Munich in Physics
1990-1993 Main courses in physics and mathematics, and diploma thesis at the University of Munich
1989-1990 Courses in physics, mathematics, statistics, and philosophy at ETH Zürich
1988 “Vordiplom” at the University of Kiel (1,0)
1986-1989 Courses in physics, mathematics, chemistry, statistics and philosophy at the University of Kiel
1986-1993 Scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation (“Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”)
1986 Selected member of the German team at the “International Physics Olympiad” in London
1986 “Abitur” in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein (1,0)

 

Professional Career

since 2007
 Co-chair (together with Ottmar Edenhofer) of the new PIK Research Domain "Sustainable Solutions" (since 2007, PIK's research domains succeeding former PIK-departments)
since 2006 Member of the PIK-Council
2006-2007 Member of the Department for Global Change & Social Systems at PIK; work on climatic change adaptation & mitigation options under system uncertainty
2005-2007 Head of the PIK-project “Potsdam Climate Module” aiming at the development of a climate modelling component suitable for the Integrated Assessment of climate policy options
2003-2007 Head of a research group on Integrated Assessment of Climatic Change mitigation options (together with O. Edenhofer) in the programme
„Nachwuchsgruppe in der fächerübergreifenden Umweltforschung“, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, assessing various energy- and CO2-sequestration-options
2002-2006 Head of the PIK-ISA-department section “Analysis”
2001-2006 Head of the PIK-project on “Propagation of Uncertainty in Earth System Models” and the follow-up project “Assessment of Uncertainty in Climate Change Projections”
2000-2003 Scientific officer for IGBP-GAIM (International Geosphere Biosphere Programme - Global Analysis, Integration and Modelling)
1999-2006 Member of the Department for Integrated Systems Analysis at PIK; work on uncertainty in Earth system models & its transfer into the integrated assessment of mitigation options under uncertainty
1998-1999 Feodor Lynen-Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation: Post-Doc with Y.-R. Shen at Berkeley on non-linear analysis of molecular
surface structures
07/1996-
10/1999		 Research assistant with H.Walther on Quantum Chaos at the University of Munich (granted to leave for AvH-fellowship 05/1998 - 08/1999); 'C1' since 12/1997
05/1996-
06/1996
 Scientific co-worker at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
05/1993-
05/1996
 PhD programme fellow by the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics

 

Fundraising

  • Lead of a project together with PIK's meteorology group (Prof. Gerstengarbe), Free University Berlin (Prof. Ulbrich) and University of Cologne (Prof. Kerschgens), funded by the German Insurance Association on the effects of climate change on losses insured by the German insurance sector, 2008-2009 (-2011) - maximum value: 1.1 M€.
  • Lead of a project together with ZEW Mannheim (Dr. Löschel) and University of Karlsruhe (Prof. Werner), funded by the German Insurance Association on the effects of climate change on future markets 2008-2010 - total volume: 0.3 M€.
  • Participation in the EU-Project CLIMATE-COST under W. Cramer; personal slot for uncertainty & impacts of tipping points; 7 person months; kick-off in 2008.
  • DFG-project "Data-based analysis of key feedback loops in the climate system for constraining uncertainty in climate projections" together with T. Schneider von Deimling under S. Rahmstorf for 2006-2009, 1 Postdoc + 1 Scientific Assistant.
  • Proposal for a multi-institutional consortium 2006-2011 Earth System Research Partnership towards a German Network of Excellence in Earth System Modelling (ENIGMA); co-authorship with MPI Hamburg, MPI Jena, MPI Mainz, PIK; 5 Postdocs for 5 years in total (2006-2011) by the Max Planck Society.
  • Lead of the research group on Integrated Assessment of Climatic Change mitigation options (together with O. Edenhofer) in the programme "Nachwuchsgruppe in der fächerübergreifenden Umweltforschung", funded by the Volkswagen Foundation for 2003-2007; 2 Postdocs, 2 PhD students.
  • BMBF-Projekt on the Propagation of Uncertainty under H.-J. Schellnhuber for 2001-2004, 2 PhD students.
  • Scientific office for IGBP-GAIM (International Geosphere Biosphere Programme - Global Analysis, Integration and Modelling) under H.-J. Schellnhuber for 2000-2003; 1 Postdoc.

 

Participation in Steering Committees

 

since 2009
 Editorial Board Member of the Special Issue on "Decision-making under uncertainty about climate change", Environmental Research Letters
since 2009
 Vice-president of EGU-ERE (European Geoscience Union - Energy, Resources and the Envronment)
2009
 Member of the ISIPTA-2009 Programme Committee (Sixth International Symposium on Imprecise Probability)
since 2008
 Scientific node (since March 2009 also scientific coordinator) at PIK for the co-development of a European climate proposal within the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT - Climate KIC (Knowledge & Innovation Community), implying co-organisation of a 1000 person 7-15 yrs project)
since 2006
 Principal Investigator of the Work Package “Modelling Contemporary Climate for an Iterative Assessment of Adaptation & Mitigation Policies” within ENIGMA (Earth system Network of Integrated Modelling and Assessment – a project 2006-2011 of the multi-institutional consortium Earth System Research Partnership towards a German Network of Excellence in Earth System Modelling; MPI Hamburg, MPI Jena, MPI Mainz, PIK)
2005 - 2009
 Maximum term elected president for EGU-ERE (European Geoscience Union - Energy, Resources and the Environment) - re-elected in 2007
since 2005 Elected president for EGU-ERE (European Geoscience Union – Energy, Resources and the Environment; re-elected in 2007)
since 2004 Member of the EGU Council
since 2004
 Member of the EGU Programme Committee
2004-2005 Executive president of EGU-ERE
2004 Member of a selection committee for the German National Academic Foundation ("Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes")
since 2003 Programme Director for EGU-ERE; Convener for various ERE sessions on fossil resources, carbon sequestration and Integrated Assessment of energy options
2002-2003 Member of the Principal Advisory Committee for the Dahlem-Conference Earth System Analysis for Sustainability, held in Mai 2003

 

Memberships

since 2006 Member of The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA)
since 2004 Member of the European Geoscience Union (EGU)
since 1994 Member of the German Physical Society (DPG)

 

Referee-activities for peer-review






since 2009
 for PNAS


since 2009
 for Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics


2009 Multiple Referee for John Schellnhuber, Carlo Rubbia, Nick Stern & Susanne Kadner (eds.): Global Sustainability - A Nobel Cause



since 2008
for Science







since 2008 for Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice







since 2007
 for International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control







2007 for Water Resources Research







since 2007
 for Energy Economics







since 2006

for Climate Dynamics


2006

for the Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System (QUEST) programme on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)


2005-2006

for the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), WG I, Fourth Assessment Report


since 2004

for Environmental Science & Technology


2002

for International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos


1998

for Phys. Lett. A


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