Ricarda Winkelmann

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 ocean.

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. Since 2020, Winkelmann is professor of climate system analysis at the University of Potsdam.

Publications

Winkelmann et al, Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet, 2015, Science Advances, 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 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.