Ricarda Winkelmann (born 1985[1][2]) is a German mathematician, physicist, and climatologist. She is a professor of Climate System Analysis at Potsdam University and the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research. She studies interdependencies between climate, land ice, and the ocean.[1]
She is the 2017 winner of the Karl Scheel Prize.
Since July 1, 2023 she is founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology[3]