Acting Director, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Friederike is the Deputy Director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and an associate professor in the Global Climate Science Programme. She leads several international research projects and is one of the PIs on the distributed computing climate modelling project climateprediction.net.
Her main reserach interest is on extreme weather events, improving and developing methodologies to answer the question 'whether and to what extent external climate drivers alter the likelihood of extreme weather'. She furthermore investigates the policy implication of this emerging scientific field.
Friederike joined the ECI in 2011 to work on ensemble-based quantification of uncertainty in climate impact projections and continues to work on the quantification of uncertainty and validation of climate models. She is the ECI lead scientist on the international project World Weather Attribution which aims at providing an assessment of the human-influence on extreme weather in real-time and co-investigator of the project ACE-Africa.
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Sep 05, 2022 04:28 am UTC| Nature
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