Kirsten Zickfeld Explained

Kirsten Zickfeld
Nationality:	German
Fields:	Climate physics
Workplaces:	Simon Fraser University
Alma Mater:	Free University of Berlin (MSc), University of Potsdam (PhD)
Known For:	Contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C

Kirsten Zickfeld is a German climate physicist who is now based in Canada. She is a member of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and was one of the authors on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR15).Zickfeld completed a Master of Science degree in physics at the Free University of Berlin in 1998, followed by a doctorate in physics at the University of Potsdam in 2004.[7]^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Research career

Zickfeld completed a Master of Science degree in physics at the Free University of Berlin in 1998, followed by a doctorate in physics at the University of Potsdam in 2004.^[6] Afterwards, Zickfield conducted postdoctoral climate research at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the University of Victoria and the Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis.

Since 2010, Zickfeld has been conducting research as a professor of climate science at the Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, British Columbia. Her research involves various aspects of climate change, including mitigation strategies such as negative emission technologies.^{[7] [8]} She was one of two Canadian authors, and one of 91 authors, on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR15).

Zickfeld's research has been cited over 3,800 times, and has an h-index and i10-index of 30 and 44 respectively.^[9] She received a 2019 President’s Awards for Leadership in Sustainability from Simon Fraser University.

Selected bibliography

• Matthews, H. Damon, Nathan P. Gillett, Peter A. Stott, and Kirsten Zickfeld. "The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions." Nature. 2009.
• Eby, M., K. Zickfeld, A. Montenegro, D. Archer, K. J. Meissner, and A. J. Weaver. "Lifetime of anthropogenic climate change: millennial time scales of potential CO2 and surface temperature perturbations." Journal of Climate. 2009.
• Zickfeld, Kirsten, Michael Eby, H. Damon Matthews, and Andrew J. Weaver. "Setting cumulative emissions targets to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2009.
• Gillett, Nathan P., Vivek K. Arora, Kirsten Zickfeld, Shawn J. Marshall, and William J. Merryfield. "Ongoing climate change following a complete cessation of carbon dioxide emissions." Nature Geoscience. 2011.

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Notes

1. Web site: 'We're going in the wrong direction,' says SFU author of UN climate report. Vancouver Sun. Tiffany. Crawford. 2018-10-13. en. 2020-03-08.
2. Web site: IPCC authors urge NEB to consider climate impacts of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Tracy. Sherlock. 2019-01-21. National Observer. en. 2020-03-08.
3. News: World is at a 'critical juncture,' says SFU professor who co-authored UN global warming report. 2018-10-08. CBC News. 2020-03-08.
4. Web site: SFU sustainability leaders recognized with 2019 President's awards - SFU News - Simon Fraser University. www.sfu.ca. 2020-03-08.
5. Web site: SFU geography prof a key contributor to global climate-change report - SFU News - Simon Fraser University. www.sfu.ca. 2020-03-08.
6. Web site: Kirsten Zickfeld - Department of Geography - Simon Fraser University. www.sfu.ca. 2020-03-08. 2020-02-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20200210082711/http://www.sfu.ca/geography/people/profiles/kirsten-zickfeld.html. dead.
7. Web site: When It Comes to Climate Change, the Ocean Never Forgets. Hakai Magazine. en. 2020-03-08.
8. Web site: Yes, climate change can be beaten by 2050. Here's how.. www.macleans.ca. 2020-03-08.
9. Web site: Kirsten Zickfeld - Google Scholar Citations. scholar.google.ca. 2020-01-04.