Axel Timmermann

Axel Timmermann
CitizenshipGermany
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg
Philipp University of Marburg
Scientific career
FieldsClimate dynamics, physical oceanography, dynamical systems' analysis, theoretical physics
InstitutionsInstitute for Basic Science
Pusan National University
University of Hawaii
WebsiteIBS Center for Climate Physics

Axel Timmermann is a German climate physicist and oceanographer with an interest in climate dynamics, human migration, dynamical systems' analysis, ice-sheet modeling and sea level. He served a co-author of the IPCC Third Assessment Report and a lead author of IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. His research has been cited over 18,000 times and has an h-index of 70 and i10-index of 161. In 2017, he became a Distinguished Professor at Pusan National University and the founding Director of the Institute for Basic Science Center for Climate Physics. In December 2018, the Center began to utilize a 1.43-petaflop Cray XC50 supercomputer, named Aleph, for climate physics research.