Rate My Professor Malte Meinshausen

Malte Meinshausen is Professor in Climate Science at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD in International Climate Policy and Economics from ETH Zurich (2001-2005), an MSc in Environmental Change & Management from the University of Oxford (1999-2000), and a Diploma in Environmental Sciences from ETH Zurich (1995-1999). He also completed doctoral courses in macroeconomics, microeconomics, and econometrics at the Study Center Gerzensee, Swiss National Bank (2002-2003). His career includes researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research since 2006, where he was team leader of the PRIMAP research group until May 2011; guest researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA (2005-2006); assisting and lecturing at ETH Zurich (2001-2002); and freelance consultancy for government bodies and environmental NGOs on climate policy since 2000.

Meinshausen's academic interests focus on emission and concentration implications of long-term climate targets like limiting global warming to below 2°C, maintenance and development of the MAGICC6 lower complexity coupled carbon-cycle climate model, analysis of GCM and carbon cycle intercomparison exercises, and creation of greenhouse gas concentration pathways for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). He served as a lead author for Working Group I of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and as a Core Writing Team Member. Key publications include "Climate Change 2021: the physical science basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; technical summary" (2021), "The representative concentration pathways: an overview" (2011), "The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300" (2011), "Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2°C" (2009), and "Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne" (2009). With over 85,000 citations, he has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher and named among the world's top 1% of scientists.