Plenarveranstaltung: Klimawandel und Vorhersagbarkeit
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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in englischer Sprache
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Dr. Ottmar EDENHOFER
Deputy-Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam
| 1987 | Diplomvolkswirt (Master Degree in Economics), University of Munich (Prädikatsexamen: with distinction) |
| 1991 | B.A. Philosophy, Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich (summa cum laude) |
| 1999 | Ph.D. in economics (summa cum laude), Social Conflict and Technological Change. Evolutionary models of Energy Use Professional Experience |
| 1981-1987 | Founding of a private enterprise; several Occupations in the Public Health System |
| 1987-1994 | Member of the Jesuit Order |
| 1991-1993 | Chief of a Humanitarian Aid Organisation (Jesuit Refugee Service) in Croatia and Bosnia |
| 1993-1994 | Journalist |
| 1994-2000 | Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Technical University Darmstadt |
| 2000-2005 | Deputy Head of Department of Global Change and Social Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) |
| since 2003 | Leads together with Herman Held the Project 'Ocean Sequestration and the Transformation of the Global Energy System' funded by the Volkswagenstiftung and the SPARK Project at PIK |
| since 2004 | Lead-author in IPCC Working Group III, Chapter 1 and 11 |
| Chief Scientist in IMCP (Innovation Modelling Comparison Exercise) | |
| since 2005 | Chief Economist at PIK |
| 2005 | Fellow of the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst |
| 2006 | Leads the Mitigation Part of the EU ADAM Project together with Professor Eberhard Jochem |
| Organiser of the International Conference 'Low Stabilisation Scenarios - Costs Technologies and Strategies', 16-17th March in Potsdam in cooperation with FEEM | |
| 2007 | Member of the German Delegation in Bangkok, IPCC, WG III |
| since 2007 | Deputy Director of PIK |
| 2007 | appointment as president of the Wuppertal Institute together with a professorship for Environmental Economics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal; appointment turned down |
| appointment to a professorship at the Technical University of Berlin for the chair of Economics of Climate Chance; appointment accepted |
Dr. Peter LEMKE
Head, Climate Sciences Division, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven; Professor, University of Bremen
| 1975 | Diploma (M.S.) in Physics, University of Hamburg |
| 1975-1989 | Research physicist, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg |
| 1980 | Ph.D. in Meteorology, University Hamburg |
| 1981-1983 | Visiting scientist at Princeton University (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) |
| 1987 | Habilitation in Meteorology, University Hamburg |
| 1989 | Associate Prof. University Bremen, Head Sea Ice Group, AWI |
| 1995 | Full Prof. University Kiel, Director Mar. Meteorol. Dept, IfM |
| 2001 | Full Prof. University Bremen and Alfred-Wegener-Institut for Polar and Marine Research |
Ph.D. Leonard A. SMITH
Director, Centre for the Analysis of Time Series, London School of Economics, London
| Raised in Florida, receiving his Bachelors degree, with Honours, in "Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science" from the University of Florida and his MA, MPhil and Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University (USA). Since 1992 he has been a Senior Research Fellow (Mathematics) at Pembroke College Oxford, working in the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM). He became a Professor of Statistics (Research), at the London School of Economics (LSE) in October 2004, where he is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series. His research interests focus on dynamical systems and predictability, with examples ranging from mathematical systems and laboratory experiments to weather and climate, each of which are discussed in his recently published book "A very short introduction to chaos" from OUP. |
Dr. Peter C. AICHELBURG
Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Vienna; Chairman of the Advisory Board, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna
| Studium der Physik und Mathematik, Universität Wien | |
| 1974 | Habilitation in Theoretischer Physik |
| 1980 | a.o. Professor |
| 1981-1986 | Lehrbeauftragter an der Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Triest |
| 1984-1986 | , 1990-1992, sowie 2006 Vorstand des Instituts für Theoretische Physik |
| 1987 | Gastprofessor an der Universität von Texas, Austin |
| seit 2000 | Professor für theoretische Physik, Universität Wien |
| Lehr- und Forschungsaufenthalte u. a.: | |
| International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste; Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela; Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Kolumbien; Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico; Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England; Albert-Einstein-Institut für Gravitationsforschung, Potsdam; Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara |
