Marlene Kretschmer is a German statistician and climatologist whose research concerns

causal inference Causal inference is the process of determining the independent, actual effect of a particular phenomenon that is a component of a larger system. The main difference between causal inference and inference of association is that causal inference ana ...

and its application to

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

, making connections between climate statistics and climate dynamics. She is a junior professor in the Institute for Meteorology of the Leipzig University Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences.

Education and career

Kretschmer earned a diploma from the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

in 2014, with a diploma thesis in

pure mathematics Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world concerns, and the results obtained may later turn out to be useful for practical applications, ...

related to the

Quillen–Suslin theorem The Quillen–Suslin theorem, also known as Serre's problem or Serre's conjecture, is a theorem in commutative algebra concerning the relationship between free modules and projective modules over polynomial rings. In the geometric setting it is ...

. She continued her studies at the University of Potsdam in the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, completing her doctorate (

Dr. rer. nat. ''Doctor rerum naturalium'' ( for, , Latin, doctor of natural sciences, lit. 'doctor of the things of nature'), abbreviated Dr. rer. nat., is a doctoral academic degree awarded by universities in some European countries (e.g. Germany, Austria and C ...

) in 2018. Her dissertation was ''Disentangling the causal drivers of the stratospheric polar vortex: A machine learning approach''. After another year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, she continued her research from 2019 to 2022 at the University of Reading in England. She took her current position, as Junior Professor for Climate Causality at Leipzig University, in 2023. She retains an affiliation with the University of Reading as senior visiting fellow.

Recognition

Kretschmer received the 2018 Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize, an annual prize for the best German dissertation in integrated climate system analysis and prediction, awarded by the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

. She received the 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the European Geosciences Union Climate: Past, Present, and Future Division, "for outstanding development and the application of statistical methods to the study of causality in climate dynamics".

References

External links

Home page: Working group on climate causality
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kretschmer, Marlene Year of birth missing (living people) Living people German statisticians German climatologists Women statisticians Women climatologists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Potsdam alumni Academic staff of Leipzig University