Marlene Kretschmer is a German statistician and

climatologist Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "slope"; and , ''-logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. Climate concerns the atmospheric ...

whose research concerns

causal inference Causal inference is the process of determining the independent, actual effect of a particular phenomenon that is a component of a larger system. The main difference between causal inference and inference of association is that causal inference an ...

and its application to

climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...

, making connections between climate statistics and climate dynamics. She is a junior professor in the Institute for Meteorology of the

Leipzig University Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences.

Education and career

Kretschmer earned a diploma from the

Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...

in 2014, with a diploma thesis in

pure mathematics Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world concerns, and the results obtained may later turn out to be useful for practical applications ...

related to the

Quillen–Suslin theorem The Quillen–Suslin theorem, also known as Serre's problem or Serre's conjecture, is a theorem in commutative algebra concerning the relationship between free modules and projective modules over polynomial rings. In the geometric setting it is ...

. She continued her studies at the

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, northeastern Germany. The university is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace o ...

in the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, completing her doctorate (

Dr. rer. nat. for, la, Doctor rerum naturalium, Doctor of Natural Sciences, paren=left, ), abbreviated Dr. rer. nat., is a doctoral academic degree awarded by universities in some European countries (e.g. Germany, Austria and Czech Republic) to graduates in phy ...

) in 2018. Her dissertation was ''Disentangling the causal drivers of the stratospheric polar vortex: A machine learning approach''. After another year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, she continued her research from 2019 to 2022 at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension college of Christchurch College, Oxford, and became University College, ...

in England. She took her current position, as Junior Professor for Climate Causality at Leipzig University, in 2023. She retains an affiliation with the University of Reading as senior visiting fellow.

Recognition

Kretschmer received the 2018 Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize, an annual prize for the best German dissertation in integrated climate system analysis and prediction, awarded by the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public university, public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('':de:Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen, ...

. She received the 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the

European Geosciences Union The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is a non-profit international union in the fields of Earth, planetary, and space sciences whose vision is to "realise a sustainable and just future for humanity and for the planet". The organisation has headq ...

Climate: Past, Present, and Future Division, "for outstanding development and the application of statistical methods to the study of causality in climate dynamics".

References

External links

Home page: Working group on climate causality
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kretschmer, Marlene Year of birth missing (living people) Living people German statisticians German climatologists German women statisticians Women climatologists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Potsdam alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University