Climate research gets two new junior professors

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Juniorprofessor Marlene Kretschmer, photo: Antje Gildemeister
Juniorprofessor Marlene Kretschmer, photo: Antje Gildemeister
22 April is Earth Day, an annual event to show support for the environment. Two junior professors have been appointed to strengthen Leipzig University’s commitment to climate research: Junior Professors Marlene Kretschmer and Sebastian Sippel’s research includes climate extremes and attribution, which is the process of linking extreme events to human-induced climate change.

How is human-induced climate change causing extreme weather events? What impact do such events have on society? And how are biodiversity and climate change actually connected? These and other questions are addressed by the two new members of the Institute for Meteorology at Leipzig University. ...
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