Prof. Dr. Julia Pongratz
Physical geography (climate modelling, land use systems)
Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
Climate-relevant research projects
Vegetation and Earth system modelling historically to 2100 and beyond
Global Carbon Project, in particular quantification of the annual anthropogenic greenhouse gas budget; emissions embodied in trade
Potentials and risks of carbon dioxide removal / negative emission technologies (such as afforestation, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), forestry, reduced degradation); link to SDGs; co-benefits of mitigation and adaptation by land management
Climate engineering
Coupled human-Earth system modelling (e.g., DKN-HERMITIAN; AIMES-MESH)
Contributions to IPCC Working Groups 1 & 3
Interdisciplinary links
Climate change and responsibility; attribution of climate change and climate-related damage; climate ethics
Climate policy; Governance and cost-benefit analysis of climate protection measures; Social cost of carbon; Design and implementation of Green Recovery
Ecosystem response under climate change
Communication on global change and sustainability
Global Health
High performance computing, AI
Climate-related courses at the LMU
Various courses in the context of geography (BSc, MSc, teaching degree), e.g. VL climatology, module climate change and the Earth system (including simulation of a climate conference, in collaboration with the GSI for Political Science), advanced seminars on the 2-degree target and the human footprint
Seminar on climate ethics (WS 2021/22) with Prof. Monika Betzler and Dr. Korbinian Rüger
Lectures on climate change for and at schools