Katja Matthes

Katja Matthes studied meteorology and completed her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin. Following her doctorate, she worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, USA. After returning from America in 2007, she held teaching and management positions at the FU Berlin and at the Helmholtz Center Potsdam, where Professor Matthes headed a Helmholtz-University Young Investigators Group. In 2012, she was recruited as a full professor for ""Physics of the Atmosphere"" at GEOMAR. Professor Matthes is an expert in the field of climate variability and climate change. Since October 2020, Katja Matthes is director of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.