Katja Matthes

Katja Matthes is Director of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Professor of Atmospheric Physics. She received her doctorate in meteorology from the Free University of Berlin in 2003 in the Department of Geosciences, research stays took her to Japan and as a Marie Curie Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA. In 2007, she returned to Germany and took up teaching and management positions at the Free University of Berlin and at the GFZ (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam German Research Centre for Geosciences), where she headed a Helmholtz University Junior Research Group. In 2012, she moved to the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel as a full professor of atmospheric physics. Since 2020, she has served as Director of GEOMAR and as an expert in the field of climate variability and climate change on numerous committees. Katja Matthes is co-author of the current 6th IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Her commitment to the goals of the UN Ocean Decade and as a board member of the German Alliance for Marine Research is of great importance to the national and international marine research community. Katja Matthes is married and has three children.