Ricarda Winkelmann (born 1985) is a German mathematician, physicist, and climatologist. She is a professor of Climate System Analysis at Potsdam University and the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research. She studies interdependencies between climate, land ice, and the ocea

She is the 2017 winner of the Karl Scheel Prize. Since July 1, 2023 she is founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology

Education

Winkelmann has a PhD in physics from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The title of her dissertation was "The Future Sea-Level Contribution from Antarctica - Projections of Solid Ice Discharge". where she studied sea levels. In 2010-11 she took part in scientific expeditions to Antarctica aboard the research vessel

Polarstern RV ''Polarstern'' (meaning pole star) is a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany. ''Polarstern'' was built by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel and Nobiskrug in ...

, operated by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute. In 2013 and 2014, she worked as a post-doc at the Stanford University's

Carnegie Institution for Science The Carnegie Institution for Science, also known as Carnegie Science and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is an organization established to fund and perform scientific research in the United States. This institution is headquartered in W ...

and at PIK. She won the German Physical Society's Karl Scheel Prize in 2017 for her work on the impact of climate change on sea levels and the

Antarctic ice sheet The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of and an average thickness of over . It is the largest of Earth's two current ice sheets, containing of ice, which is equivalent to 61% of ...

Career

Since 2010, she developed the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) which is available as an Open-Source-Software model of the ice sheet. Since 2020, Winkelmann is professor of climate system analysis 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 2017, she won 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 ...

's Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for her work linking

glaciology Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or, more generally, ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, clim ...

and climate change.

Publications

* Winkelmann et al
''Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet''
2015,

Science Advances ''Science Advances'' is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open-access scientific journal established in early 2015 and published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The journal's scope includes all areas of science. Hist ...

, Vol 1, Issue 8, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500589 * Winkelmann et al
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810141115 (2,000+ citations) * Winkelmann et al
The Hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
2020,

Nature Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the Ecosphere (planetary), ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the Scientific law, laws, elements and phenomenon, phenomena of the physic ...

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2727-5., * Winkelmann et al
Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise
2021, Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03302-y.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winkelmann, Ricarda Living people German climatologists 21st-century German mathematicians 21st-century German physicists Stanford University alumni Academic staff of the University of Potsdam 1985 births German women mathematicians German women physicists Max Planck Institute directors