Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024

Anita Engels, born in 1969, has dedicated almost her entire sociological work to analyzing the complex relations of climate change and society. After master and doctoral studies at Universität Bielefeld, she moved to Universität Hamburg where she became full professor in 2009.Jochem Marotzke, born in 1959, is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, where he heads the department »Climate Variability«. He contributed to the 5th and 6th assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as coordinating lead author. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech. In 2009, he was awarded the Fridtjof Nansen Medal of the European Geosciences Association.Beate Ratter, born in 1962, is a geographer dedicated to studying, understanding and enhancing human-nature-interaction in a transdisciplinary way. She holds a professorship at Universität Hamburg for Integrated Geography and jointly heads the Department of Human Dimensions of Coastal Areas at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon. She contributed to the IPCC »Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC)« as a lead author and was granted the UNESCO chair on »Societal climate change research and resilience«.Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse, born in 1986, is a senior researcher at the cluster of excellence »Climate, Climatic Change, and Society« (CLICCS) at Universität Hamburg. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Universität Hamburg, Germany.Andrés López-Rivera, born in 1988, is a postdoctoral researcher at the cluster of excellence »Climate, Climatic Change, and Society« (CLICCS) at Universität Hamburg. The political scientist did his doctorate at Universität Duisburg-Essen and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.Anna Pagnone, born in 1990, is a postdoctoral researcher at the cluster of excellence »Climate, Climatic Change, and Society« (CLICCS) at Universität Hamburg. The environmental physicist did her doctorate at Universität Bremen and at the AAlfred-Wegener-Institut.Jan Wilkens, born in 1986, is a senior researcher at the cluster of excellence »Climate, Climatic Change, and Society« (CLICCS) at Universität Hamburg. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Universität Hamburg, Germany.