Prof. Dr. Elmar Kriegler

Prof. Dr. Elmar Kriegler is Head of the Research Department "Transformation Pathways" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Professor for Integrated Assessment of Climate Change at the University of Potsdam, and a member of the Science Panel for the Global Energy Transition (SPGET). His research focuses on climate mitigation pathways, integrated assessment modelling, and sustainable development scenarios.

He has played a leading role in the development of global climate scenarios, including the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs), and has served as a lead author for several chapters of different IPCC reports. A highly cited researcher, he has published extensively on climate change mitigation and transformation pathways.