As a member of the PIK working group Adaptation in Agricultural Systems, Julia Tomalka coordinates projects on climate impacts and adaptation in smallholder tropical agriculture with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Her work includes coordinating international project consortia and developing project proposals, team management and acting as gender focal person. With a strong interest in audiovisual storytelling and effective science communication, she also contributes to outreach and stakeholder engagement in the working group.
Contact
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
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tomalka[at]pik-potsdam.de
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- 2023-2024: Photography training with a focus on documentary photography at Photocentrum, Berlin
- 2019-2022: M.A. Urban Geography (Humboldt University Berlin)
- Since April 2019: Member of the PIK working group Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
- 2016-2019: Project-based assignments for Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and UNESCAP
- 2014-2016: M.A. Global Studies (University of Leipzig, University of California in Santa Barbara, University of Wroclaw)
- 2009-2013: B.A. English and American Studies, Business Administration (University of Potsdam, University of Hull)
- Differential/intersectional vulnerability and adaptive capacity, especially focusing on gender
- Climate impacts and adaptation in urban and peri-urban areas
- Climate change and unshelteredness/homelessness
- Tomalka, J., Hunecke, C., Murken, L., Heckmann, T., Cronauer, C., Becker, R., Collignon, Q., Collins-Sowah, P., Crawford, M., Gloy, N., Hampf, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Malevolti, G., Maskell, G., Müller, C., Popp, A., Vodounhessi, M., Gornott, C., Rockström, J. (2024). Stepping back from the precipice: Transforming land management to stay within planetary boundaries. Potsdam, Germany: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48485/pik.2024.018.
- Murken, L.*, Tomalka, J.*, Abigaba, D., Amoah, A.-B., Amougou, J. A., Anaba, M., Arumugam, P., Awori, E., Léa Baek, H.-R., Below, T., Cartsburg, M., Chemura, A., Cronauer, C., Didovets, I., Gizaw, A. W., Gleixner, S., Gloy, N., Grams, E., Habtemariam, L., … Gornott, C. (2024). The need for evidence-based climate risk and adaptation assessments: Lessons learned from the AGRICA project. Environmental Research Letters, 19(6), 062001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad50eb; * Shared first authorship
- Tomalka, J., Bereswill, S., Murken, L., Thonicke, K., Gornott, C. (2024). The potential of forests and trees in addressing climate change: Policy recommendations for the Ethiopian context. A policy brief developed as part of the projects AGRICA Ethiopia (GIZ, BMZ) and B-EPICC (IKI, BMU).
- Röhrig, F., Gloy, N., von Loeben, S., Arumugam, P., Aschenbrenner, P., Baek, H., Cartsburg, M., Chemura, A., Ibrahim Fodi, B., Habtemariam, L., Kaufmann, J., Koch, H., Liersch, S., Lüttringhaus, S., Murken, L., Ostberg, S., Schauberger, B., Shukla, R., Tomalka, J., Wesch, S., Wortmann, M. & Gornott, C., (2022). Climate Risk Analysis for Identifying and Weighing Adaptation Strategies for the Agricultural Sector in Niger. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
- Tomalka, J., Lange, S., Gleixner, S., Ostberg, S. & Gornott, C. (2022). Climate Risk Profile for Pakistan. A joint publication by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives of Pakistan, 18 pp.
- Tomalka, J., Birner, J., Dieye, A. M., Gleixner, S., Harper, A., Hauf, Y., Hippe, F., Jansen, L., Lange, S., Laudien, R., Rheinbay, J., Vinke, K., von Loeben, S., Wesch, S., Zvolsky, A. & Gornott, C. (2021). Climate Risk Profile: Sahel. A joint publication by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) under the Predictive Analytics project in support of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS).
- Röhrig, F., Gloy, N., von Loeben, S., Arumugam, P., Aschenbrenner, P., Baek, H., Bado, I., Chemura, A., Habtemariam, L., Kaufmann, J., Koch, H., Laudien, R., Liersch, S., Lüttringhaus, S., Murken, L., Neya, O., Noleppa, S., Ostberg, S., Santo, S., Schauberger, B., Shukla, R., Tomalka, J., Wesch, S., Wortmann, M. & Gornott, C., (2021). Climate Risk Analysis for Identifying and Weighing Adaptation Strategies for the Agricultural Sector in Burkina Faso. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
- Aschenbrenner, P., Chemura, A., Jarawura, F., Habtemariam, L., Lüttringhaus, S., Murken, L., Roehrig, F., Tomalka, J., & Gornott, C., (2021). Climate Risk Analysis for Identifying and Weighing Adaptation Strategies for the Agricultural Sector in Northern Ghana - A Study at District Level in the Upper West Region. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
- Murken, L., Cartsburg, M., Chemura, A., Didovets, I., Gleixner, S., Koch, H., Lehmann, J., Liersch, S., Lüttringhaus, S., Rivas Lopez, M. d. R., Noleppa, S., Röhrig, F., Schauberger, B., Shukla, R., Tomalka, J., Yalew, A. W., & Gornott, C. (2020). Climate Risk Analysis for Identifying and Weighing Adaptation Strategies in Ethiopia’s Agricultural Sector. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
- Tomalka, J., Lange, S., Röhrig, F. & Gornott, C. (2020). Climate Risk Profiles for Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauretania, Niger, Tanzania and Uganda. Climate Risk Profiles for Sub-Saharan Africa Series. Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
- RENAT: Spatial assessments on the production potential and climate resilience of natural farming in India
- TRANSFORM: Research for evidence-based climate policy through agricultural and food systems transformation, financing preservation of forest sinks and a just transition of the economy
