Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob

Head of Climate System Department

Daniela Jacob

Being head of the department „climate system“, Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob is gathering information about climate change and is supporting partners from science, industry and administration in interpreting the data. After studying meteorology in Darmstadt Jacob graduated in Hamburg, working at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Research Centre Geesthacht. Afterwards she worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Scince 1993 she does research at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, where she developed the regional climate model REMO, which can be used to calculate the regional impact of climate change. Since 2009 Daniela Jacob is Professor at University of Bergen, Norway. In June 2010 she was appointed to be one of the Leading Authors of the fifth Assessment Report (Working Group 2) of the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).

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