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Some of the many researchers, staff and guests from over 25 years of PIK.

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Dr Lilibeth Acosta
PIK: 2001—2016
Current institution: Climate Action and Inclusive Development Department, Global Green Growth Institute
Expertise: Climate vulnerability and adaptation, land use change, biodiversity and ecosystem, renewable energy, agriculture and sustainable livelihood, social inclusion, green growth, impact assessments, models and scenarios, composite index
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Dr Ankit Agarwal
PIK: 2015—2018
Current institution: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Expertise: Complex network, event synchronization, multiscale, wavelets, climate, hydrology, nonlinear dynamics, extreme events, atmospheric science
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Mr Pratik Agrawal
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: University of Potsdam
Dr Precious Akampumuza
PIK: 2018—2018
Current institution: UNFCCC
Expertise: Climate change, health, infectious diseases, food security, Impact assessment, Gender.
Ms Paula Allertseder
PIK: 2022—2023
Current institution: Alfred-Wegener-Institute
Ms Corinna Altenburg
PIK: 2009—2014
Current institution: Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung und Bauwesen
Expertise: Urban climate governance; local climate finance; local mitigation and adaptation; climate action plans and energy saving plans for communities; knowledge transfer for cities and local entities
Dr Andreas Amann
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: University College Cork
Expertise: Nonlinear dynamics
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Mr Marius Amrhein
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: Accenture Technology Solutions GmbH
Expertise: App development, Data Science, Design Thinking
Dr Sara Ansari
PIK: 2019—2023
Current institution: Dynafrax
Expertise: Complex networks, Epidemiology, Data analysis, Data modeling
Dr Cordelia Arndt-Sullivan
PIK: 2022—2024
Current institution: Berlin Institute of Health in der Charité
Dr Nkongho Ayuketang Arreyndip
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: Institute of Applied Geosciences, TU Darmstadt
Expertise: Climate impact assessment
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Dr Franz-Werner Badeck
PIK: 1998—2006
Current institution: Council for Agricultural research and economy, Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB)
Expertise: modelling of natural and managed ecosystems, development of phenotyping methods, impact assessments
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Professor Wolfram Barfuss
PIK: 2015—2019
Current institution: University of Bonn
Expertise: Sustainability systems science, coupled human-environment modeling, learning of cooperation, collective reinforcement learning dynamics
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Ms Mechthild Anna Becker
PIK: 2018—2023
Current institution: German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Expertise: Migration, security, gender, knowledge transfer, capacity building, adaptation, policy analysis
Dr Stefanie Becker
PIK: 2013—2018
Current institution: Sustainable Transitions Blog
Expertise: Transitions,community organizations, qualitative interviews, governance, politics, multi-level perspective
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Dr Johanna Beckmann
PIK: 2012—2022
Current institution: Monash University, Faculty of science
Expertise: Greenland ice sheet, pism, glaciers, extreme melt events , jet stream , Greenland blocking
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Dr Camille Belmin
PIK: 2017—2023
Current institution: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Expertise: Development, gender, energy, well-being, art and science, reproducible research, social metabolism
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Dr Jonas Bergmann
PIK: 2018—2021
Current institution: World Bank / KNOMAD
Expertise: Migration, Human Rights, Adaptation, Inequality and equity, Security, Health, Qualitative Methods
Mr Jonas Bergner
PIK: 2019—2020
Current institution: acs plus GmbH
Expertise: Network theory, economic impact of extreme weather events
Dr Christoph Bertram
PIK: 2010—2023
Current institution: University of Maryland - Center for Global Sustainability

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Professor Frank Biermann
PIK: 2000—2003
Current institution: Utrecht University
Expertise: Earth system governance
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Mr Benjamin Biewald
PIK: 2021—2022
Current institution: TenneT TSO GmbH
Expertise: Holocene stability, faint young sun problem, energy balance, climate modelling
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Mr Maik Billing
PIK: 2017—2019
Current institution: Kiez Erfahren
Expertise: Vegetation modeling, machine learning
Ms Mariia Bilogub
PIK: 2015—2021
Current institution: Umweltbundesamt
Expertise: Ecology, science communication, event organization
Ms Lisa Binder
PIK: 2020—2023
Current institution: -
Expertise: Climate impacts, climate and conflict, loss and damage, climate adaptation
Ms Ines Blumenthal
PIK: 2012—2020
Current institution: Landeshauptstadt Potsdam, Fachbereich Bildung, Jugend und Sport
Expertise: climate education, education for sustainable development, environmental education, sustainability, digitisation
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Ms Claudia Bouley (formerly Meintzinger)
PIK: 2018—2024
Current institution: currently on parental leave
Expertise: Project and scientific coordination
Dr Tobias Braun
PIK: 2019—2024
Current institution: GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ)
Expertise: Nonlinear time series analysis, recurrence plots, complex networks, palaeoclimate, climate extremes, atmospheric rivers
Ms Nuria Brede
PIK: 2019—2022
Current institution: University of Potsdam
Expertise: Sequential decision problems under uncertainty, monadic dynamical systems, dependent type theory and formalisation
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Dr Steffen Brunner
PIK: 2008—2014
Current institution: BMWE - Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie
Expertise: sustainable finance
Dr Ingo Bräuer
PIK: 2009—2022
Current institution: DAUCUM - Werkstatt für Biodiversität
Expertise: Science Management, Evaluation, Evaluation of natural Resources, Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Professor Christian Buerger
PIK: 2018—2018
Current institution: School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Expertise: Policy Analysis, Public Finance
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Dr Andrea Bues
PIK: 2017—2022
Current institution: Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)
Expertise: German environmental policy, climate policy, land use change
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Mr Max Böhringer
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: University of Bonn
Expertise: Climate change and inequality
Mr Reyk Börner
PIK: 2018—2019
Current institution: University of Reading
Expertise: Complex systems theory, nonlinear dynamics, climate modeling, climate tipping points, oceanography
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Dr Reinhard Calov
PIK: 1998—2024
Current institution: Retired
Expertise: Inland ice in the Earth system, Inland ice in the Earth system, Stability of ice sheets
Ms Julia Cantisán Gómez
PIK: 2022—2022
Current institution: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Expertise: Nonlinear Dynamics, Tipping Points, Chaos, Transient Dynamics, Active Particles, Stochastic Resetting, Numerical Modelling
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Mr Robert Devon Carr
PIK: 2021—2023
Current institution: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Expertise: Impact of climate change on sub-national economies
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Dr Martin Cassel
PIK: 1995—2001
Current institution: OBERMEYER Planen + Beraten GmbH
Expertise: development of Syndromes of Global Change approach, Adaptation to climate change, Flood risk management
Mr Philipp Censkowsky
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne
Expertise: Social-ecological systems modelling, regime shifts, political economy, ecosystem services, economics
Dr Claudine Chen
PIK: 2009—2013
Current institution: Fresko
Professor Wolfgang Cramer
PIK: 1993—2011
Current institution: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Expertise: Global Change and Natural Systems, Modelling the Land Biosphere, Mediterranean Sustainability
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Ms Caroline Cronjäger
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: Utrecht University
Expertise: Energy transition, transport, data research, data visualisation
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Mr Hameni Nkwayep Cédric Iverdon
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: University of Douala
Ms Janina Deilke
PIK: 2024—2025
Current institution: Universität Potsdam

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Mr Jayesh Dhadphale
PIK: 2022—2022
Current institution: IIT Madras, India
Expertise: Nonlinear time series analysis, Machine learning, Thermoacoustics
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Dr Alois Dirnaichner
PIK: 2018—2022
Current institution: Freelancer
Expertise: Transport, life-cycle impact assessment
Dr Markus Drüke
PIK: 2017—2023
Current institution: Deutscher Wetterdienst
Expertise: Model development, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, global carbon cycle, Amazon rainforest, planetary boundaries, tipping in the biosphere
Dr Jerome Dumortier
PIK: 2021—2021
Current institution: Indiana University
Expertise: Land use change, bioenergy, agricultural trade, transportation economics, food systems
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Mr Nils Dunker
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: Munich RE
Expertise: Tipping dynamics in complex social systems under the influence of anticipated and experienced climate impacts.
Mr Peer von Döhren
PIK: 2017—2017
Current institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Expertise: Landscape ecology, Ecosystem services and disservices, empirical social science methods, sustainability
Mr Niklas Eden
PIK: 2018—2018
Current institution: Leibniz University Hannover
Ms Eva Eichenauer
PIK: 2011—2018
Current institution: Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg and Fachagentur Wind und Solar
Mr Patrick Eickemeier
PIK: 2007—2015
Current institution: Der Tagesspiegel
Expertise: Communication, sustainibility, mitigation, land use, energy systems
Mr Joshua Eid
PIK: 2022—2022
Current institution: Technische Universität Berlin
Professor Klaus Eisenack
PIK: 2001—2008
Current institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Expertise: Adaptation governance, urban climate action, energy transition, institutional economics, archetype analysis, simulation games (KEEP COOL...)
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Dr Nikoo Ekhtiari
PIK: 2015—2019
Current institution: Cloud to Street
Expertise: Climate data, time series, complex networks analysis
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Ms Kirsten Engbring
PIK: 2020—2022
Current institution: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
Expertise: Synchronization phenomena, Complex networks, Kuramoto model, Correlated fluctuations
Professor Deniz Eroglu
PIK: 2013—2016
Current institution: Kadir Has University
Expertise: Dynamical Systems, Complex Systems, Network Science, Time Series Analysis
Ms Elena Evers
PIK: 2017—2024
Current institution: Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg
Expertise: Financial management of national and international third-party projects, monitoring of budgets, personnel planning, project accounting, financial reports/audits
Professor Marianela Fader
PIK: 2008—2013
Current institution: Department of Geography, LMU Munich
Expertise: climate change impacts on hydrology, climate change impacts on food security, land use change, impact modelling
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Ms Elizaveta Fakirova
PIK: 2020—2022
Current institution: Technische Universität München
Expertise: Green Infrastructure, Green Roofs policies, Nature-based Solutions
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Dr Theresa Falkendal
PIK: 2019—2021
Current institution: Hydri Solutions (formerly Nilsson Energy)
Expertise: agricultural market, grain price modelling, agent based model
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Dr Sun Fenglan
PIK: 2019—2020
Current institution: Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Expertise: complex networks, nonlinear systems, hybrid systems, multi-agent systems
Dr Leonardo Ferreira
PIK: 2019—2020
Current institution: Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Expertise: Complex networks, machine learning, pattern recognition, data science, climate networks
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Professor Christian Flachsland
PIK: 2001—2012
Current institution: Hertie School of Governance
Expertise: Climate policy, policy instruments, mitigation
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Mr Michael Flechsig
PIK: 1993—2017
Current institution: Retired
Expertise: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of model output, research data management
Mr Samuel Fournet
PIK: 2010—2021
Current institution: Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V.
Expertise: Africa, Freshwater, Land Use, Food & Agriculture, Energy, Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Climate impacts, Adaptation, Model Intercomparison, SWIM
Mr Sebastian Franz
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: Denmark Technical University
Expertise: Energy Systems, Transportation Modelling
Mr David Fritsch
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: Deutsche Umwelthilfe
Expertise: Ausbau Erneuerbare Energie, Energiepolitik, Populismusforschung, Akzeptanzforschung, Energieeffizienz
Dr Uta Fritsch
PIK: 1998—2005
Current institution: Eurac Research
Expertise: Land use scenarios
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Dr Nikita Frolov
PIK: 2017—2017
Current institution: Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov
Expertise: Methods for multivariate time series analysis, network analysis and simulations
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Dr Hannah Förster
PIK: 2001—2011
Current institution: Öko-Institut e.V.
Expertise: Mitigation, projections, European climate and energy policy, science communication, impact analysis, progress to climate and energy targets, economic assessment
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Dr Cornelia Fürstenau
PIK: 2002—2005
Current institution: Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dr Hans-Martin Füssel
PIK: 1996—2010
Current institution: European Environment Agency
Expertise: Integrated assessment of climate change, Climate impacts modelling, Climate change and health, Adaptation funding, Probabilistic assessment
Ms Nadin Gaasch
PIK: 2017—2020
Current institution: Technische Universität Berlin
Expertise: Science management
Ms Giulia Gadani
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: Université Cote d'Azur
Expertise: Environmental economics, Natural disasters, Hurricanes, Econometrics, Economic impacts, Environmental preferences
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Dr Christian Gambardella
PIK: 2012—2022
Current institution: Enpal
Expertise: Environmental and Energy Economics, Behavioral Economics, Electricity Markets, Climate Policy, Energy Policy, Econometrics, Computational Economics
Ms Sainzaya Ganbold
PIK: 2019—2020
Current institution: -
Expertise: Panel data, livestock, weather shocks, Mongolia, hypothetical games
Professor Zhong-Ke Gao
PIK: 2013—2013
Current institution: Tianjin University
Expertise: Complex network, Deep learning, Time series analysis, Big data, Artificial intelligence
Mr Thiago Garcia
PIK: 2018—2019
Current institution: Engagement Global gGmbh
Expertise: Environmental policy, multilevel governance, international cooperation, regional integration
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Dr Tobias Geiger
PIK: 2014—2019
Current institution: Deutscher Wetterdienst, Regionales Klimabüro Potsdam
Expertise: Climate extremes, socioeconomic impact assessment, economic growth modelling, risk assessment and attribution studies
Mr Thomas Gentsch
PIK: 2019—2020
Current institution: Technische Universität Berlin
Expertise: land use change, urban sustainability, geospatial analysis, geovisualization, emission and resource efficiency,lifestyle and consumption
Ms Lara Gerking
PIK: 2022—2024
Current institution: n.a.
Expertise: Environmental & social epidemiology (urban health and green), prenatal health (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease), surgery
Mr Lukas Godé
PIK: 2018—2019
Current institution: Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Expertise: Energy systems, social metabolism, social practices, resource use, energy demand
Dr Heiko Goelzer
PIK: 2004—2007
Current institution: Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht
Expertise: Ice sheet modelling, sea-level projections, ice sheet-climate interactions
Dr Bedartha Goswami
PIK: 2011—2020
Current institution: University of Tübingen
Expertise: Machine Learning, Nonlinear data analysis, Climate networks, Deep learning weather models
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Mr Frederic Grobler
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Expertise: Migration
Dr Rüdiger Grote
PIK: 1993—1998
Current institution: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Expertise: ecosystem modelling, nmodel development, air quality, bioenergy production, environmental impact analysis, biogenic volatile organic compounds
Mr Bastian Grudde
PIK: 2017—2019
Current institution: Union Investment
Expertise: Stranded Assets, Climate Finance
Ms Adeline Gueret
PIK: 2020—2020
Current institution: Berlin School of Economics/DIW
Expertise: Energy systems, EU ETS, CGE models
Dr Shraddha Gupta
PIK: 2019—2023
Current institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Expertise: Complex Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Climate Networks, Asian Summer Monsoon, Extreme events, Forecast diagnostics, Land use systems modelling
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Dr Annika Günther
PIK: 2018—2024
Current institution: None
Expertise: Nationally Determined Contributions; Emissions; Economic Drought Impacts; ISIPEDIA
Dr Johannes Gütschow
PIK: 2012—2022
Current institution: Self employed / Climate Resource
Expertise: Historical GHG emissions, GHG emission scenarios, Temperature projections, climate models, NDC assessment
Dr Markus Haller
PIK: 2007—2012
Current institution: Öko-Institut e.V.
Expertise: energy systems, energy system modeling, renewable energy, integration of renewable power generation
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Dr Gerrit Hansen
PIK: 2009—2014
Current institution: Senior Advisor IPCC WGI TSU
Expertise: Detection and Attribution of Climate Change Impacts; IPCC; UNFCCC; Science-Policy-Assessments; Transformation Pathways; Carbon Dioxide Removal; Sustainable Development; Renewable Energy; International and EU climate policy; Green Finance
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Mr Clemens Haße
PIK: 2001—2004
Current institution: Umweltbundesamt
Expertise: Adaptation policies and measures, National Adaptation Policy, Nature-based solutions, Economics of Adaptation, Costs of action or inaction, Measuring & evaluating adaptation
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Dr Sabrina Hempel
PIK: 2008—2013
Current institution: Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB)
Expertise: emissions, livestock husbandry, impact assessment, model validation, bias correction, fluid dynamics
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Ms Victoria Herbig
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: ETH Zürich
Expertise: Emergent constraints, uncertainties, consideration of observations
Dr Bernd Hezel
PIK: 2011—2021
Current institution: Climate Media Factory; Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Expertise: Transformative climate media, science communication, sustainable urban futures, decarbonisation modelling, exploratory knowledge presentation, decision support, quantum physics
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Dr Jérôme Hilaire
PIK: 2011—2021
Current institution: International Energy Agency
Expertise: Climate scenarios, Climate mitigation economics, Energy system, Fossil fuel markets, CDR, Climate-related financial risk
Ms Sarah Hiller
PIK: 2019—2023
Current institution: Free University Berlin | Vielfalt Westerwald
Expertise: Probabilistic Causality, Formal Ethics, Responsibility, Uncertainty
Professor Lion Hirth
PIK: 2008—2009
Current institution: Hertie School of Governance

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Dr Friederike Hoffmann
PIK: 2022—2023
Current institution: University of Bergen
Expertise: Science Management, project proposal planning, career development support and career guidance for early career scientists
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Dr Anne Holsten
PIK: 2007—2023
Current institution: Bauhaus der Erde gGmbH
Expertise: Regional impact Assessments, Sustainable Built Environment, Cities
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Ms Anika Horst
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: University of Cologne
Dr Veronika Huber
PIK: 2008—2016
Current institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Helmholtz Zentrum München
Expertise: climate impacts on human health, temperature-related mortality, heat stress, water-borne diseases
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Dr Dennis Höning
PIK: 2021—2023
Current institution: IVU Traffic Technologies
Expertise: Greenland ice sheet, climate change, tipping points, sea level rise, anthropogenic carbon emissions, Earth system, planetary evolution, carbon cycle, habitability, plate tectonics
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Dr Alexandra Hüttel
PIK: 2021—2022
Current institution: DIW Berlin
Expertise: Behavioral science, climate change mitigation, gamification, climate change communication, randomized controlled trials, climate change simulations
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Mr Niklas Illenseer
PIK: 2023—2025
Current institution: Dezernat Zukunft
Expertise: Finance policy, fiscal policy, distribution, policy consulting
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Professor Alexandra Jahn
PIK: 2002—2004
Current institution: University of Colorado Boulder
Expertise: Climate Modeling, Arctic sea ice and ocean variability and change, paleo climate
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Dr Michael Jakob
PIK: 2007—2012
Current institution: Independent researcher, consultant and coach
Ms Yvonne Jans
PIK: 2010—2019
Current institution: Freelance researcher
Expertise: Bioenergy, land use change, crop modeling, irrigation, water management,climate change impacts
Dr Mairi Louise Jeffery
PIK: 2013—2019
Current institution: NewClimate Institute
Expertise: Greenhouse gas emissions data and international climate policy.
Ms Ziyu Jiang
PIK: 2023—2025
Current institution: Beijing Normal University
Dr Fabian Joas
PIK: 2010—2016
Current institution: Bundeskanzleramt
Expertise: Electricity Markets, Renewables, Decarbonisation of heavy industry, E-mobility, Policy design, Political strategies
Mr Felix John
PIK: 2018—2019
Current institution: Referat Klimaschutz und Energiewende at Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit
Dr Jonas Jägermeyr
PIK: 2010—2018
Current institution: Nasa and Columbia University
Expertise: Food security, sustainable intensification, crop modeling, irrigation, water management, environmental flow requirements, Sustainable Development Goals, climate change impacts
Dr Susanne Kadner
PIK: 2006—2015
Current institution: CIRCULAR REPUBLIC at UnternehmerTUM
Expertise: Climate mitigation, Renewable Energy, Circular Economy
Ms Manuela Kaspar
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: manuka pr / Kobranet
Mr Praveen Kasthuri
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
Expertise: Complex networks
Dr Priscilla Kephe
PIK: 2022—2023
Current institution: Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre
Dr Dorothee Keppler
PIK: 2020—2024
Current institution: GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences
Ms Oleksandra Khala
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: Not yet applicable
Expertise: Science communication, scientific project management, capacity building
Dr Lena Kilian
PIK: 2025—2025
Current institution: Leiden University
Ms Sea Jin Kim
PIK: 2018—2018
Current institution: Korea University
Expertise: forest fire, wildfire, climate impact, impact assessments, risk reduction, disaster
Dr Catrin Kirsch
PIK: 2016—2019
Current institution: Currently none
Expertise: Climate change, linear and no-linear statistics, stratosphere-troposphere coupling, teleconnections, complex networks
Dr Oleksandr Kit
PIK: 2008—2014
Current institution: CarbonPool
Expertise: GIS, IT, Remote sensing, Object detection, Impact assessment
Ms Rafaela Klafka
PIK: 2021—2022
Current institution: GERICS (Climate Service Center Germany)
Expertise: Visualisierung von Klimamodelldaten, Impaktmodellierung, Klima-Kommunikation
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Professor Richard Klein
PIK: 1999—2006
Current institution: Stockholm Environment Institute
Expertise: Climate change adaptation, Vulnerability assessment, Risk analysis, Climate finance, Climate policy, Adaptation governance
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Mr Simon Kleineweber
PIK: 2018—2021
Current institution: DIW Berlin

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Dr David Klenert
PIK: 2012—2015
Current institution: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Expertise: Climate policy, distributional impacts, economic models
Dr Lucas Kluge
PIK: 2019—2023
Current institution: QCells
Expertise: Internal Migration, International Migration, Demography, Population, Projections, Scenario building
Mr Jonas Knapp
PIK: 2020—2022
Current institution: Bundestag
Expertise: Energy systems, emission trading systems, national climate policy, EU climate policy, building energy
Ms Maria Knaus
PIK: 2013—2017
Current institution: The Nature Conservancy
Expertise: Climate change adaptation, nature-based solutions in cities
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Dr Chris Kollas
PIK: 1993—2017
Current institution: DB Services GmbH
Expertise: tree physiology, climate impacts, micro-climatology, seed science, dendrochronology, ecophysiological modelling, statistics, forestry
Dr Mirjam Kosch
PIK: 2020—2022
Current institution: Kanton Zürich (CH)
Expertise: Energy and climate economics, power markets, climate policy
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Dr Maximilian Kotz
PIK: 2019—2024
Current institution: Barcelona Super Computing Centre
Dr Kai Hauke Kraemer
PIK: 2017—2022
Current institution: Ernst & Young GmbH
Expertise: Nonlinear time series analysis, Recurrence Analysis, State Space Reconstruction
Dr Michael Krause-Besan
PIK: 2007—2011
Current institution: Zukunft-Umwelt-Gesellschaft gGmbH
Expertise: land use change, forest economics, climate change mitigation, REDD
Mr Ferdinand Krebs
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: Aurora Energy Research
Expertise: Macroeconomic Modelling
Dr Ulrich Kreidenweis
PIK: 2013—2017
Current institution: Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB)
Expertise: agriculture, bioeconomy modelling, impact assessment, land use change, material flow analysis
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Professor Marlene Kretschmer
PIK: 2014—2019
Current institution: Leipzig Institut für Meteorologie, Universität Leipzig
Expertise: Atmospheric dynamics, weather extremes, stratospheric polar vortex, machine learning
Dr Hazem Krichene
PIK: 2019—2021
Current institution: scope ESG analysis gmbh
Expertise: Climate econometric, macroeconomic modeling, supply chain network, extreme weather events
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Professor Kati Krähnert
PIK: 2019—2021
Current institution: RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung and Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Expertise: Development economics, impact evaluation, climate adaptation, weather insurance, econometrics
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Mr Patryk Kubiczek
PIK: 2019—2022
Current institution: Instrat Foundation
Expertise: Agent-based modeling, economic modeling, climate storylines, food security, agricultural markets, international trade
Mr Noah Kögel
PIK: 2021—2022
Current institution: Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC, Berlin)
Expertise: impact assessment using fixed effects regressions, collecting worldwide sub-national economic output data
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Ms Gitta Köllner
PIK: 2018—2023
Current institution: Slow Food Deutschland e.V.
Expertise: Environmental Sciences, Science Communication
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Dr Timothy Lam
PIK: 2024—2025
Current institution: WCRP Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Project

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Dr David Milan Landholm Haight
PIK: 2015—2020
Current institution: Climate Focus
Expertise: Land use change, deforestation, silvopastoral systems, climate change mitigation
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Dr Stefan Lange
PIK: 2012—2022
Current institution: MSCI ESG Research LLC
Expertise: Climate impacts, extreme events, risk assessments, bias adjustment, statistical downscaling, regional climate modelling, model intercomparison
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Ms Petra Lasch-Born
PIK: 1992—2018
Current institution: Retired
Expertise: Forest modeling and climate change
Dr Jascha Lehmann
PIK: 2011—2021
Current institution: Climate Risk Center at MSCI Inc.
Expertise: climate extremes, seasonal forecasting, machine-learning, causal discovery
Dr Marian Leimbach
PIK: 1992—2024
Current institution: Retired
Expertise: Climate Economics, Macroeconomic Modelling
Dr Jaqueline Lekscha
PIK: 2016—2019
Current institution: Projektträger Jülich
Expertise: Time series analysis, complex networks, past climate variability
Dr Antoine Levesque
PIK: 2014—2023
Current institution: 50Hertz GmbH
Expertise: Buildings energy decarbonisation, integrated assessment model, decarbonisation scenarios
Dr Ralf Liebermann
PIK: 2020—2024
Current institution: Not yet applicable
Expertise: Biogeochemical ecosystem modelling, Earth system analysis, climate statistics, marine biogeochemistry, food web modelling, model calibration and validation, ensemble simulations, astrobiology
Mr Lucas Lincoln
PIK: 2019—2020
Current institution: Exasol
Expertise: computational science,control systems, power systems, engineering modeling,computer science,high performance computing
Dr Marcus Lindner
PIK: 1993—2003
Current institution: European Forest Institute
Expertise: forestry - impacts, adaptation, mitigation, sustainability impact assessment, Resilience, Disturbance risk prevention
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Dr Michael Lindner
PIK: 2015—2024
Current institution: Technische Universität Berlin
Expertise: Energy systems, greenhouse gases
Mr Ciaron Linstead
PIK: 2001—2023
Current institution: atNorth
Expertise: High Performance and Parallel Computing
Ms Naima Lipka
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: -
Expertise: Climate change adaptation, agriculture, gender, nature-based solutions, loss and damage
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Dr Anastasia Lobanova
PIK: 2014—2021
Current institution: Climatiq GmbH
Expertise: Water resources, hydrology, numerical modelling, climate impacts assessments, forecasting, project management, scientific publishing
Mr Huo Long
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: Xi'an Jiaotong University
Expertise: Cascading failure, transient dynamics in power grids, climate impacts on power systems
Ms Manuela Lubinsky
PIK: 2000—2022
Current institution: Retired
Dr Sylvie Ludig
PIK: 2006—2012
Current institution: Öko-Institut e.V.
Expertise: Energy system modeling, German power sector, Emission projections, Evaluation of policies and measures, EU F-Gas Phase down
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Dr Michael Lueken
PIK: 2006—2010
Current institution: Tbilisi State University & New Vision University, Tiflis
Expertise: Mitigation strategies in the transport sector
Dr Sabine Luetkemeier
PIK: 1996—2011
Current institution: Retired
Expertise: Scientific organization of the German office of an international programme (IGBP); Scientific organizer of European summer schools in Southern France
Dr Lisa Luna
PIK: 2019—2023
Current institution: University of Potsdam
Dr Femke Lutz
PIK: 2014—2019
Current institution: FVA - Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemburg
Expertise: Forest nutrient modeling
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Dr Matthias K. B. Lüdeke
PIK: 1995—2021
Current institution: Retired

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Dr Silvia Madeddu
PIK: 2018—2022
Current institution: Schneider Electric
Expertise: Energy, electrification, industry decarbonisation strategies (cement, steel, chemicals).
Dr Aman Malik
PIK: 2017—2022
Current institution: Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
Expertise: Energy systems, emission trading scheme, climate policy, India, net zero
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Dr Nishant Malik
PIK: 2008—2011
Current institution: School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
Expertise: (1) Developing methods for data-driven analysis of complex systems in nature and society 2) Mathematical and computational modeling of systems (interplay of networks, nonlinear dynamics, and stochastic processes)
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Mr Gabriel Marghoti
PIK: 2024—2025
Current institution: Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Ph.D Candidate in Physics
Expertise: Nonlinear Dynamics, Complex Networks
Dr Muhammad Masood
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB)
Expertise: Flood Disaster Management, Hydrological modeling, Climate Change Impact Assessment, Water Recourse Engineering
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Dr Raoul Mbakob Yonkeu
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: University of Bamenda
Expertise: Nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems with fractional derivative
Mr Andrew McConnell
PIK: 2018—2021
Current institution: Pollination Group
Expertise: Energy Systems
Ms Ruoxing Mei
PIK: 2018—2019
Current institution: PhD Student
Mr Marcel Meistring
PIK: 2008—2022
Current institution: Helmholtz Open Science Office
Expertise: Open access; scientific publishing
Dr Jun Meng
PIK: 2018—2020
Current institution: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Expertise: Complex systems, Climate science, Physics
Ms Aylin Mengi
PIK: 2018—2021
Current institution: Sciences Po
Ms Sarah Messina
PIK: 2012—2024
Current institution: Keine Angabe
Dr Benedikt Mester
PIK: 2020—2023
Current institution: Swiss Re
Expertise: Climate extremes, weather extremes, human displacement
Dr Shapkalijevski Metodija
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

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Mr Daniel Metzke
PIK: 2018—2022
Current institution: WWF Germany
Expertise: Planetary Boundaries, Science-Based Targets for Climate , Science-Based Targets for Nature, One Planet Business Framework, Corporate Sustainability
Dr Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf
PIK: 2009—2018
Current institution: NAHhaft – Institut für nachhaltige Ernährungsstrategien e.V.
Expertise: Dynamics of Lifestyle and Consumption, Sufficiency and Sustainable Consumption, Carbon Footprinting, Sustainable Transport, Methods of Social-Ecological Research, Energy Conflicts, Social Innovations, Sustainable Transition Food System
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Dr Svetlana Milutinovic
PIK: 2021—2023
Current institution: N/A
Dr Sara Minoli
PIK: 2014—2022
Current institution: Climate Focus
Expertise: Agriculture management, crop yields, climate change impacts, adaptation, crop modelling
Dr Abhijeet Mishra
PIK: 2016—2022
Current institution: International Food Policy Research Institute
Expertise: Land use modeling, climate change mitigation, forestry
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Dr Takahito Mitsui
PIK: 2020—2024
Current institution: Juntendo University
Expertise: Paleoclimates, climate dynamics, nonlinear dynamics
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Dr Lukas Mogge
PIK: 2019—2024
Current institution: RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Expertise: Socio-economic consequences of climate change, climate adaptation strategies, humanitarian aid
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Mr Andreas Morr
PIK: 2022—2023
Current institution: Technical University Munich
Expertise: Stochastic analysis and modelling for critical transition detection
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Dr Eirik Myrvoll-Nilsen
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: University of Tromsø
Dr Dirk-Ingmar Müller-Wohlfeil
PIK: 1993—1996
Current institution: Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Expertise: Hydrological modelling, Water Framewrk Directive, Wetlands, Impact Assessment, Nutrient pollution and transport
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Dr Paul Nahmmacher
PIK: 2012—2016
Current institution: 50Hertz Transmission GmbH
Expertise: Scenario Building, Energy Market Modelling, Electricity Markets, Power Grids, Energy Transition Policies
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Ms Katharina Oehlschläger
PIK: 2017—2019
Current institution: none
Dr Samuel Okullo
PIK: 2017—2021
Current institution: World Bank
Expertise: Climate Instruments
Ms Monika Orlowski
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung
Expertise: Renewable energy conflicts, energy citizenship, energy system optimization
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Dr Sebastian Osorio Ruiz
PIK: 2017—2025
Current institution: E3Modelling/Ricardo
Expertise: Energy systems modelling, power sector decarbonisation, emission trading system (EU ETS)
Mr Henri Oster
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: University of Cologne
Expertise: Modelling spatial urban development
Dr Friederike Otto
PIK: 2008—2011
Current institution: Imperial College London / The Grantham Institute for Climate Change
Expertise: extreme weather, detection and attribution, loss and damage
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Professor Ilona M. Otto
PIK: 2010—2024
Current institution: Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Austria
Expertise: Social transformations, rapid social change, social tipping points, environmental inequalities
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Dr Jiamin Ou
PIK: 2022—2022
Current institution: Utrecht University
Mr Yannick Pape
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: Minimum
Expertise: urbanisation, greenhouse gas accounting, sustainable agriculture, green finance, environmental economics
Dr Christian Passow
PIK: 2014—2018
Current institution: Sparkassen Rating und Risikosysteme
Expertise: Extreme events, Bias correction, Time series analysis
Ms Nicole Pastrik
PIK: 2018—2021
Current institution: Bauhaus Erde
Mr Mahé Perrette
PIK: 2009—2023
Current institution: Freelance researcher
Expertise: Sea level rise, bayesian projections, numerical modelling, programming, python, julia, fortran
Dr Kristina Petrova
PIK: 2023—2024
Current institution: Hertie School
Expertise: Climate extremes, migration, displacement, conflict
Dr Mika Pflüger
PIK: 2020—2023
Current institution: Climate Resource Pty Ltd.
Expertise: research software, uncertainty quantification, emission data
Mr Jonas Pilot
PIK: 2019—2024
Current institution: Deutsche Bahn AG
Expertise: Machine learning, wildfire prediction on remote sensing data
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Dr Tobias Pilz
PIK: 2019—2022
Current institution: DHI WASY GmbH
Expertise: Hydrology, model development, statistics, extremes
Dr Anton Plietzsch
PIK: 2016—2023
Current institution: Fraunhofer-Einrichtung für Energieinfrastrukturen und Geothermie IEG
Dr Vera Porwollik
PIK: 2014—2019
Current institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut
Expertise: Global agricultural management data for gridded models, Bio-economic farm modelling, agricultural and resource economics, Development cooperation, Forest ecosystem management
Dr Joachim Post
PIK: 2002—2006
Current institution: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.
Expertise: Space research, earth observation, environmental modelling, energy and transport research, science and technology for development, international relations
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Dr Prajal Pradhan
PIK: 2009—2023
Current institution: University of Groningen
Expertise: Sustainable development goals (SDGs), food systems, urban transformations, climate resilience.
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Mr Muhammad Panji Putra
PIK: 2018—2020
Current institution: CDP Europe
Expertise: Nexus Water-Energy-Food Security, Network Analysis
Mr Claus Rachimow
PIK: 1997—2016
Current institution: Retired
Expertise: software development, web development, data management
Dr Diana Reckien
PIK: 1999—2012
Current institution: University of Twente
Expertise: quantification of climate change impacts; differential social vulnerability; local mitigation and adaptation policy; network analysis; climate change migration; equity and justice; urban areas; social/ equity effects/ consequences of climate policy
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Professor Ronja Reese
PIK: 2014—2021
Current institution: Northumbria University Newcastle
Professor Kira Rehfeld
PIK: 2009—2013
Current institution: Universität Tübingen
Expertise: paleoclimate, model validation, complex systems
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Ms Julia Reimann
PIK: 2020—2022
Current institution: in application process
Expertise: Climate Science Communication, Climate Change Communication, Scientific epistemologies, Artistic Research
Mr Fabian Reitemeyer
PIK: 2019—2023
Current institution: Bezirksamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Expertise: Carbon Accounting, Urban Energy modeling, urban mitigation potentials
Dr Aljoscha Rheinwalt
PIK: 2011—2015
Current institution: University of Potsdam
Dr Hannah Sophie Eliza Richter
PIK: 2021—2023
Current institution: Kliniken des Landkreises Karlsruhe, Fürst-Stirum-Klinik Bruchsal
Expertise: Planetary health, climate change and health, sustainability in the health sector, scientific policy advice
Dr Lena Richter, formerly Boysen
PIK: 2013—2016
Current institution: Blühpapier
Expertise: land-use change, terrestrial carbon dioxide removal, vegetation modelling
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Dr Oliver Richters
PIK: 2021—2025
Current institution: Dad
Expertise: Energy systems, NGFS climate scenarios
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Dr Keno Riechers
PIK: 2019—2024
Current institution: Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie Hamburg
Expertise: Paleoclimate, Tipping Points, Non-linear Dynamics, Dynamical Systems, AMOC
Mr Niclas Rieger
PIK: 2022—2022
Current institution: Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM)
Expertise: Subseasonal prediction, precipitation extremes, explainable AI, machine learning
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Dr Albano Rikani
PIK: 2018—2023
Current institution: Institute nationale de santè publique France (INSERM)
Expertise: climate change impacts, human international migration
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Dr Alexander Robinson
PIK: 2008—2011
Current institution: Alfred-Wegener-Institute
Expertise: Paleoclimate, ice sheet modelling, Greenland ice sheet, climate change, heat waves, extreme events, AMOC
Dr Julian Roeckert
PIK: 2019—2024
Current institution: RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Expertise: Development economics, household-level data, panel surveys, RCT, microeconometrics, impact evaluation
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Mr Niklas Roming
PIK: 2012—2017
Current institution: Umweltbundesamt
Expertise: energy system, macro economic modelling, energy demand
Dr Christina Roolfs
PIK: 2013—2020
Current institution: Dr. Roolfs Vent Solaire GmbH
Expertise: Climate policy, Federalism, Multilevel policy, Europe, Minimum carbon price, Distribution and transfers, Economics, Model development, Energy , Tax reform
Dr Efi Rousi
PIK: 2016—2022
Current institution: Springer Nature (Nature Communications)
Expertise: Climate, climate extremes, climate change, climate variability, atmospheric circulation
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Mr Yannick Ruf
PIK: 2020—2023
Current institution: Hochfrequenz Unternehmensberatung GmbH
Expertise: Economics, Global Commons, Climate Policy, Germany, Europe
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Professor Henning Rust
PIK: 2001—2007
Current institution: Freie Universität Berlin
Expertise: Communication probabilistic forecasts and warnings, citizen science, impact models, forecast verification
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Ms Nadine Rädel
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: Technische Universität Berlin
Expertise: Ecology, Environmental planning
Ms Felicitas Röhrig
PIK: 2018—2021
Current institution: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Expertise: Agricultural economics; agricultural development and climate resilience in the (sub)tropics; smallholder agriculture; climate-smart technologies for adaptation and mitigation; science-based policy advice
Mr Carsten Rösner
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: BearingPoint
Expertise: Machine Learning (Graph Neural Networks) for Power Grids
Professor Hernán D. Salas
PIK: 2017—2018
Current institution: Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia
Expertise: Hydrology, Climatology, Time-series Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Nonlinear dynamics, Complex systems, Statistical Scaling
Dr Eva Schmid
PIK: 2009—2017
Current institution: Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH dena
Expertise: energy-related greenhouse gas mitigation, scenario development, integrated energy system modeling, power grids, Energiewende, European Energy Union, energy transition policies, energy transitions
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Mr Benjamin Schmidt
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: Science Policy Circle
Mr Toni Schmidt
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: AWI Potsdam, GFZ Potsdam
Expertise: impact assessments, cost functions, remote sensing, python programming
Dr Christoph Schmitz
PIK: 2009—2012
Current institution: Acker e.V.
Expertise: Agriculture, Education for Sustainable Development, Social Entrepreneurship, Land use change, GemüseAckerdemie.de
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Ms Mareike Schodder
PIK: 2011—2023
Current institution: Zukunft Fahrrad e.V.

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Dr Karina Schollän
PIK: 2017—2018
Current institution: Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

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Dr Sebastian Schubert
PIK: 2009—2020
Current institution: Geography department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Expertise: regional climate modelling, microscale climate modelling, urban climate, climate ensemble analysis, high performance computing
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Mr Hendrik Schuldt
PIK: 2017—2022
Current institution: carboneer
Expertise: Climate policy, Financial markets, Macroeconomic modelling
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Dr Anselm Schultes
PIK: 2012—2017
Current institution: Fintu Data Science / tetrel.ai
Expertise: mitigation, integrated assessment, economic impacts, energy systems, machine learning
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Dr Gregor Schwerhoff
PIK: 2012—2015
Current institution: International Monetary Fund
Expertise: climate policy, carbon pricing, land taxation, climate and development, energy policy in Africa
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Ms Paula Schöberlein
PIK: 2020—2020
Current institution: UNICEF South Asia
Expertise: energy policies, climate governance, energy systems
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Ms Olivia Serdeczny
PIK: 2010—2014
Current institution: Climate Analytics
Expertise: Climate negotiations and loss and damage
Ms Nafiseh Seyyed Nezhad Golkhatmi
PIK: 2018—2019
Current institution: University of Tehran
Expertise: Climate Networks, Drought, Ant colonies, Genetic algorithms
Professor Roopam Shukla
PIK: 2019—2022
Current institution: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)
Expertise: Climate Change adaptation, Smallholder farming systems, Policy analysis, Vulnerability studies, Remote sensing
Dr Kais Siala
PIK: 2020—2022
Current institution: 50Hertz GmbH
Expertise: Environmental impacts, power system modeling
Dr Diana Sietz
PIK: 1999—2020
Current institution: Thünen-Institut für Biodiversität
Expertise: Sustainable land use, archetypes, agriculture, ecosystem-based adaptation, climate resilience, South America
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Dr Vanessa Skiba
PIK: 2020—2023
Current institution: Alfred-Wegener-Institute
Expertise: Palaeoclimate, past climate variability and abrupt transitions, geochemistry, proxy modelling
Dr Taylor Smith
PIK: 2020—2021
Current institution: University of Potsdam
Expertise: Climate change, vegetation, satellite data, snow-cover
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Ms Emily Sperring
PIK: 2024—2025
Current institution: Stanford University
Expertise: Energy transition, life cycle assessment
Dr Veronika Stolbova
PIK: 2012—2015
Current institution: Vontobel
Expertise: Climate change, Indian monsoon, prediction of climate phenomena, climate finance, sustainability
Mr Jan Strohschein
PIK: 2008—2011
Current institution: greenjobs GmbH
Expertise: Project management, "green" job market
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Dr Zhen Su
PIK: 2019—2025
Current institution: Karolinska Institutet
Expertise: Complex networks, climate extremes, time series analysis
Dr Felicitas Suckow
PIK: 1993—2019
Current institution: Retired
Expertise: ecosystem modelling, soil science, carbon storage, model validation
Dr Ulrike Sylla
PIK: 2008—2021
Current institution: GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences
Expertise: Knowledge and technology transfer
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Dr Björn Sörgel
PIK: 2018—2024
Current institution: not yet applicable
Expertise: Integrated assessment, poverty, inequality, sustainable development
Dr Nicolas Taconet
PIK: 2021—2022
Current institution: Net Zero Unit, France
Expertise: Climate economics, carbon pricing, inequality
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Dr Costa Talento
PIK: 2019—2023
Current institution: Allianz
Professor Yang Tang
PIK: 2011—2018
Current institution: East China University of Science and Technology
Expertise: multi-agent systems, complex networks, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence and their applications
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Dr Vera Tekken
PIK: 2004—2011
Current institution: VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH
Expertise: Qualitative and Multi-method Research, Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, Climate Change and adaptation, Natural Resource Management, Society and Environment, Food Security
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Professor Britta Tietjen
PIK: 2009—2011
Current institution: Freie Universität Berlin
Expertise: ecohydrological modelling, ecosystem resilience, drylands, biodiversity, rangeland systems
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Dr Oliver Tietjen
PIK: 2011—2020
Current institution: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)
Expertise: Climate and energy policy, policy instruments, emission trading, electricity markets, renewable energy support
Ms Jana Tillmann
PIK: 2023—2023
Current institution: Economists for Future e.V.
Expertise: Land use change, biochar, forestry modelling, forest economics, wood residues
Dr Dominik Traxl
PIK: 2021—2022
Current institution: inovex GmbH
Expertise: Precipitation, wildfires, vegetation
Dr Liubov Tupikina
PIK: 2013—2017
Current institution: Paris Descartes, Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires – CRI Paris, Inserm, and Bell Labs France
Expertise: network theory, statistical physics models, time-series analysis, climate networks, discrete spreading models, diffusion
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Dr Sabine Unsfeld (formerly Auer)
PIK: 2012—2018
Current institution: elena international GmbH
Expertise: power grid stability, renewable energies, microgrids, Open-Source development, optimal power flow problems, energy system analysis, game theory
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Dr Iliusi Donaji Vega del Valle
PIK: 2017—2023
Current institution: Centro Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CENADEH) Carbonleap IO
Expertise: Bioinformatics, biophysics, complex networks, pattern recognition, data management
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Mr Jonas Viering
PIK: 2010—2023
Current institution: Wirtschaftsvereinigung der Grünen e.V.
Expertise: Communications
Mr Hannes Vogel
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: Proxima Fusion
Expertise: Complex systems, power grids
Dr Johannes Vogel
PIK: 2022—2023
Current institution: Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig
Expertise: Vegetation modelling, Drought impacts
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Dr Thomas Vogt
PIK: 2019—2024
Current institution: Open for job offers
Expertise: Socioeconomic impacts of tropical cyclones
Dr Katrin Vohland
PIK: 2006—2009
Current institution: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Expertise: Biodiversity; Citizen Science; Science-policy interface
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Professor Katharina Waha
PIK: 2009—2014
Current institution: University of Augsburg, Centre for Climate Resilience
Expertise: Agricultural Geography, Impact Asssessment in Agriculture, Crop Modeling, Adaptation in Cropping Systems, Smallholder Production Systems, Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems, Food Security, LPJmL
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Mr Sandro Waldschmidt
PIK: 2010—2022
Current institution: DIHK
Dr Gerard W. Wall
PIK: 2017—2017
Current institution: USDA-ARS
Expertise: plant physiology, temperature stress, water stress, carbon dioxide enrichment, modeling, adaptation, mitigation
Dr Ariane Walz
PIK: 2010—2012
Current institution: Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Umwelt und Klimaschutz (MLUK) and University of Potsdam
Expertise: Land Management, Land Use, Ecosystem Services
Dr Jia Wantao
PIK: 2019—2019
Current institution: Northwestern Polytechnical University
Ms Anne Weltin
PIK: 2019—2021
Current institution: Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Expertise: Climate diplomacy, climate policy, international relations, regional focus on Eastern Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia
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Dr Marc Wiedermann
PIK: 2014—2021
Current institution: Microsoft
Dr Sven Willner
PIK: 2013—2021
Current institution: Independent Consultant for IT and Climate Risks
Expertise: Extreme weather events, fluvial flooding, supply chain modelling, economic impacts of climate change, agent-based modelling, integrated assessment models
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Ms Julia Wittig
PIK: 2022—2024
Current institution: Kanzlei Julia Wittig
Expertise: Law
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Mr Martin Wodinski
PIK: 2000—2020
Current institution: Retired
Expertise: Graphic design, Climate change and wine
Mr Valentin Wohlfarth
PIK: 2019—2021
Current institution: AiF – Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen
Expertise: tipping points, tipping networks, economic networks, nonlinear dynamics
Ms Aleksandra Wojewska
PIK: 2019—2020
Current institution: University of Vienna
Expertise: Climate change adaptation, political ecology, vulnerability and resilience, livestock value chain
Dr Frederik Wolf
PIK: 2017—2022
Current institution: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
Expertise: complex networks, extreme event analysis, nonlinear dynamics, social networks, synchronization of heavy precipitation, time series analysis
Mr Jan Wolfertz
PIK: 2018—2020

Expertise: Supply chain networks, stochastic process,time series, constraint based modeling.
Dr Amsalu Woldie Yalew
PIK: 2017—2020
Current institution: Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC)
Expertise: Impact assessments, energy systems, land use change, migration, climate policy
Professor Wu Ye
PIK: 2008—2010
Current institution: Beijing Normal University
Expertise: complex systems,human dynamics,synchronization
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Dr Rania Zaatour
PIK: 2021—2023
Current institution: Teolia Consulting
Expertise: Food grain price modeling, climate impacts, extreme events, data engineering, data analysis.
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Ms Wanrong Zan
PIK: 2018—2019
Current institution: Northwestern Polytechnical University
Professor Karim Zantout
PIK: 2022—2025
Current institution: Hochschule Karlsruhe
Expertise: Migration, climate extreme impacts, stochastic models, time series analysis
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Dr Azin Zarei
PIK: 2019—2021
Current institution: United Nations University (UNU-FLORES)
Expertise: Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies, Environmental risk assessment, monitoring, Spatial and regional planning, Remote sensing, GIS, Developing vegetation dynamics models
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Dr Maria Zeitz
PIK: 2017—2023
Current institution: KlimAktiv gGmbH
Expertise: Ice-sheet modeling, Resilience, Greenland Ice Sheet, climate deniers
Professor Delphine Clara Zemp
PIK: 2012—2016
Current institution: University of Neuchâtel
Expertise: biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem restoration, moisture recycling, tropical forest, agroforestry, tree diversity experiment, remote sensing, complex networks
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Dr Shuwei Zhang
PIK: 2011—2013
Current institution: Agora Energiewende, Germany
Expertise: Energy system analysis; Power Economics; Renewable integration ;International trade and climate policy
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Dr Bin Zhou
PIK: 2012—2017
Current institution: University of Augsburg
Expertise: urbanization, urban heat island, remote sensing, urban climatology
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Dr Anne Zimmer
PIK: 2012—2015
Current institution: Climate Analytics
Expertise: Co-benefits of mitigation; socio-economic impacts of climate change
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Ms Ekaterina Zolotarevskaia
PIK: 2020—2023
Current institution: Team Consult GmBH
Ms Antonia Zvolsky
PIK: 2021—2022
Current institution: Maptransfer
Expertise: Adaptation to Climate Change, Agricultural Systems, Value Chains, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Development Cooperation, Political Science
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Dr Marcos Thiago de Araújo Marcolino
PIK: 2018—2022
Current institution: Moody's Analytics
Expertise: Multi-Sector Growth Model, Structural Transformation, Climate Policy
Dr Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert
PIK: 2001—2004
Current institution: Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Expertise: Land use change, transdisciplinary science, conservation, agriculture, vulnerability and adaptation, nature-based approaches, coastal protection, ecosystem services, German Baltic coast, Latin America
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Dr Sofie Anna te wierik
PIK: 2023—2025
Current institution: Dutch environmental assessment agency (PBL)
Expertise: Planetary Boundaries
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Ms Clara vom Scheidt
PIK: 2020—2022
Current institution: still open
Expertise: forest carbon policy, stakeholder interviews and analysis
Ms Isabell von Falkenhausen
PIK: 2021—2022
Current institution: Fraunhofer FOKUS
Expertise: Network theory, complex systems, innovation theory, social tipping points
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