Climate-driven tipping of ecological and social systems

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Katja Frieler is Head of Department 3 “Transformation Pathways” at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor at the University of Potsdam. She leads the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP), as well as the open climate impacts encyclopedia ISIpedia, an online portal that provides low-threshold access to knowledge and data from the latest climate impact science. Katja Frieler’s research is dedicated to increasing our understanding of the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems through i) the integration of impact projections from different disciplines and ii) the attribution of observed changes in natural and human systems to historical changes in climate or direct human forcings such as landuse changes, changes in water or agricultural management, or in exposure or vulnerability of human systems.

Within TipESM, Katja is involved in the work on identifying tipping points in various ecosystems and social systems due to transient climate change.