Kirsten Zickfeld

Kirsten Zickfeld
NationalityGerman
Alma materFree University of Berlin (MSc), University of Potsdam (PhD)
Known forContributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C
Scientific career
FieldsClimate physics
InstitutionsSimon Fraser University

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]