Anders Levermann
Anders Levermann is a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Columbia University. He is a Professor of the Dynamics of the Climate System at Institute for Physics and Astrophysics of the Potsdam University, Germany. He has been involved in the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2004. Levermann advises political and economic stakeholders on the issue of climate change.Curriculum vitae
Born in 1973 in Bremerhaven, Germany, Anders Levermann studied physics at the universities of Marburg and Kiel in Germany. He received his diploma in 1999. During his PhD in theoretical physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel he worked advised by Itamar Procaccia on fractal growth patterns within the general field of statistical physics.
Levermann received his PhD in theoretical physics in 2003, after which he started to work on climate dynamics at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Initially as a Postdoc with a scholarship of Gary-Comer-foundation, he became junior professor in 2006. Since October 2007, he has been a senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a Professor of the Dynamics of the Climate System at Physics Institute of Potsdam University, Germany. His research focuses on tipping elements of the climate system and economic consequences of climate change.
Since 2012 he has been leading the research domain on sustainable solutions of the climate problem at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, working together with PIK's chief-economist Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer. In some newspaper articles, e.g. in the and , he hypothesized that there is a limit to the adaptive capacity of our current society. In a in the scientific journal Nature, he therefore called for a publicly available information system to induce a "global adaptation" of our supply chains.
