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| Dr. Hermann Held is Co-Chair of PIK's Research Domain "Sustainable Solutions" (co-chairing with PIK's chief economist Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer) and the senior researcher on the uncertainty
analysis of climate projections within the context of mitigation
strategies. For a portfolio of mitigation strategies he also advances
and applies methodologies that aim at an optimal mix of options under
risk and uncertainty. He is president of the "Energy, Resources &
the Environment" division and council member of the European Geoscience
Union. For the IPCC-4 th Assessment Report, WG-I, he acts as referee.
He did his PhD in Physics on Quantum Chaos at the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, followed by an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley. During this post-doc period he also started to work on risk assessment methodologies for industrial processes, together with the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the ETH Zürich. End of 1999, he joined PIK in order to merge his system science and environmental management interests. He lectures on climate science, economics and statistics at the University of Potsdam and the Technical University of Berlin. |
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