Anders Levermann
Anders Levermann | |
|---|---|
 Anders Levermann (Potsdam, Germany, 2016) | |
| Born | 1973 Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Citizenship | German |
| Education | Physicist |
| Occupation | Climate scientist |
| Organization(s) | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany |
| Title | Ph.D. |
Anders Levermann is a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Columbia University. He is a Professor of the Dynamics of the Climate System at Institute for Physics and Astrophysics of the Potsdam University, Germany. He has been involved in the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2004 (contributing author to the paleoclimate chapter of the fourth assessment report, lead author of sea-level change chapter of the fifth report, lead author of the ocean, cryosphere and sea level chapter of the current sixth assessment report). Levermann advises political and economic stakeholders on the issue of climate change.
Curriculum vitae
Born in 1973 in Bremerhaven, Germany, Anders Levermann studied physics at the universities of Marburg and Kiel in Germany. He received his diploma in 1999. During his PhD in theoretical physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel he worked advised by Itamar Procaccia on fractal growth patterns within the general field of statistical physics.
Levermann received his PhD in theoretical physics in 2003, after which he started to work on climate dynamics at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Initially as a Postdoc with a scholarship of Gary-Comer-foundation, he became junior professor in 2006. Since October 2007, he has been a senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a Professor of the Dynamics of the Climate System at Physics Institute of Potsdam University, Germany. His research focuses on tipping elements of the climate system and economic consequences of climate change.
Since 2012 he has been leading the research domain on sustainable solutions of the climate problem at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, working together with PIK's chief-economist Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer. In some newspaper articles, e.g. in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The Guardian, he hypothesized that there is a limit to the adaptive capacity of our current society. In a commentary in the scientific journal Nature, he therefore called for a publicly available information system to induce a "global adaptation" of our supply chains (www.zeean.net).
References
Selection of peer-reviewed literature:
- Levermann; "Make supply chains climate-smart.", Nature, 506 (2014), 27-29, [1]
- Marzeion & Levermann; "Loss of Cultural World Heritage and currently inhabited places to sea-level rise", Environmental Research Letters, 9 (2014), 034001. [2]
- Levermann et al.; "The multi-millennial sea-level commitment of global warming", Proceedings of the National Academie of Sciences, 110 (2013), 13745. [3]
- Winkelmann, Levermann, Martin, Frieler; "Increased future ice discharge from Antarctica owing to higher snowfall", Nature 492 (2012), 239-242. [4]
- Levermann, Albrecht, Winkelmann, Martin, Haseloff, Joughin; "Kinematic first-order calving law implies potential for abrupt ice-shelf retreat", The Cryosphere 6 (2012), 273-286. [5]
- Levermann et al.; "Potential climatic transitions with profound impact on Europe - Review of the current state of six 'tipping elements of the climate system'", Climatic Change 110 (2012), 845-878.[6]
- Levermann, Schewe, Petoukhov, Held; "Basic mechanism for abrupt monsoon transitions", Proceedings of the National Academie of Sciences, 106 (2009), 20572. [7]
- Levermann & Born; "Bistability of the Atlantic subpolar gyre in a coarse resolution climate model"; Geophysical Research Letters, 34 (2007), L24605. [8]
- Levermann, Griesel, Hofmann, Montoya, Rahmstorf; "Dynamic sea level changes following changes in the thermohaline circulation"; Climate Dynamics, 24 (2005), 347-354. [9][dead link]
- Levermann & Procaccia; "Bi-Laplacian Growth Patterns in Disordered Media"; Physical Review Letters 89 (2002), 234501. » Highlighted in Nature 421 (2003), 124. [10]
Selection of newspaper articles:
- "Trump's economic isolationism is climate-blind", The Hill, May 2018.
- "Fossil fuels: a present we can't unwrap", HuffPost, Dec. 2017.
- "Why geoengineering won't work", HuffPost, May 2016.
- "Antarctica's point of no return", World Economic Forum, July 2014.
- "Heed the warning of extreme weather", The Guardian, Jan 2014.
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