Climate research gets two new junior professors

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. Marlene Kretschmer and Sebastian Sippel will also contribute their international expertise and skills to the Breathing Nature research network to better understand the environmental and societal impacts of climate change. Junior Professor Marlene Kretschmer joins Leipzig from the University of Reading . -My work will focus on understanding and quantifying how human-induced climate change is causing extreme weather events. For example, I am interested in how storms, heat waves and droughts will change in the future, and how this will affect society and biodiversity.