Acclimate People

Prof. Anders Levermann is Co-Chair of research domain Sustainable Solutions at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at Physics Institute of Potsdam University and is responsible for the scientific administration of the global supply chain risk management tool Zeean.


Dr. Sven Willner co-developed the agent-based loss-propagation model Acclimate and created the first version of zeean. He advises the core zeean team in technical and scientific matters.

He leads the working group Numerical analysis of global economic impacts.


Dr. Leonie Wenz has contributed to the development of the agent-based numerical model acclimate.

She leads the working group Data-based analysis of climate decisions.


Dr. Christian Otto
Postdoctoral Researcher


Dr. Jacob Schewe
Postdoctoral Researcher


Kilian Kuhla is a PhD student with Prof. Dr. Anders Levermann.


Dipl. Ing. Timon Graf is responsible as Project Manager for the operational administration of the Zeean project. As Environment Planner and with comprehensive experience in the field of Technology Transfer, he provides a gateway between research and practice to facilitate the development from scientific vision to actual product after successful validation. Besides project management, his main focuses include direct communication with potential customers, business model development, product application validation, market analysis and competition analysis.


Jiacheng Yao is Data Scientist and concentrates within our project on the Visualization component of the Zeean SCRM tool and on optimizing the scalability and computational performance of the models. His research interests lie in the applied fields of Machine Learning, particularly in large scale multivariate time series causality analysis.