A/Prof Malte Meinshausen is the Director of the Australian-German College at The University of Melbourne and is affiliated with Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

He holds a Ph. D. in “Climate Science & Policy”, a Diploma in “Environmental Sciences” from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and an M.Sc. in “Environmental Change and Management” from the University of Oxford, UK.

Before joining the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in 2006, he was a Post-Doc at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

He has been contributing author to various chapters in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4). Until May 2011, he was leading the PRIMAP (“Potsdam Real-Time Integrated Model for probabilistic Assessment of emission Path”) research group at PIK before relocating to Melbourne.

Since 2005, he is a scientific advisor to the German Environmental Ministry related to international climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC. Since 2014, he investigates methods to derive future climate targets for Australia in the context of a Future Fellow ARC project. –

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