Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Climate Decision Making Center
Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Climate risks and impacts of natural variability and climate change; climate uncertainty and decision making; energy policy.
Education
2005, Ph.D. in Geosciences/Meteorology: University of Hamburg and International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modeling
2001, M.S degree in Mathematics (German: Diplom) with minor in Operations Research: University of Hamburg, Germany
1998, Vordiplom (German undergraduate degree) in Mathematics with minor in Physics: University of Hamburg, Germany
Research
Climate risks and uncertainty
Climate risks of particular interest are hurricanes and floods, droughts and changes in water supply, and changes in Arctic sea ice.
Losses from hurricanes in the US have grown dramatically in the past few decades. Contributing factors are the growing concentration of people and value in
areas at risk, a natural large-scale shift in the Atlantic atmosphere-ocean environment in the mid 1990s, and potentially global warming.
My work focuses on assessing and projecting the effect of these factors and exploring possibilities to prepare for changing hurricane risks. Current projects
investigate trends and data problems in Atlantic hurricane data (in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon Statistics) and project long-term scenarios of
changes in hurricane risk to inform possible long-term flood insurance policies (in collaboration with Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan,
Wharton Risk Center, University of Pennsylvania).
My work on changes in water supply currently focuses on precipitation and drought in the US Southwest. Of particular interest is the combined effect of
global warmimg and large-scale natural Pacific and Atlantic climate patterns on rainfall and temperature.
Energy Policy
I collaborate with the Wegener Center at the University of Graz, Austria and the International Center of Climate and Society at the University of Hawaii, Manoa
on the investigation of economic risks due to uncertain emissions policies and the uncertain development of socio-economic factors on which required emissions reductions
and their costs depend. We also work on criteria to evaluate the feasibility of specific renewable energy technologies.
Professional Experience
2007-present: Postdoctoral research fellow, Climate Decision Making Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
7/06-1/07: Postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany
Fall 2006: Lecturer, M.S. Program in Environmental Management, University of Kiel, Germany
Spring 2006: Visiting lecturer, Institute of Social Ecology, Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Education, University of Vienna, Austria
1/06-7/06: Research Associate, Institute of Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany
2/02-9/05: Assistant Scientist, Institute of Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany
Peer-reviewed publications
Grossmann, I., Klotzbach, P., 2009. A Review of North Atlantic Modes of Natural Variability and Their Driving Mechanisms. Accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical
Research Atmospheres.
Grossmann, W.D., Steininger, K.W., Grossmann, I., Magaard, L., 2009. Indicators on economic risk from global climate change. Environmental Science and Technology (in press).
Grossmann, I., 2009. Atlantic hurricane risks: preparing for the plausible. Environmental Science and Technology 43 (20) (in press).
Grossmann, I., 2008. Perspectives for Hamburg as a port-city in the context of a changing global environment. Geoforum 39: 2062-2072
Grossmann, I., 2007. Critical and strategic factors for scenario development and discontinuity tracing. Futures 39: 878-894
Grossmann, I., Woth, K., v. Storch, H., 2006. Localization of global climate change: Storm surge scenarios for Hamburg in 2030 and 2085. Die Küste 71: 169-182
Grossmann, I., 2006. Three Scenarios for the greater Hamburg region. Futures 38 (1): 31-49
Grossmann, I., 2006. Future perspectives for the Lower Elbe Region 2005-2030: Climate trends and globalization. Dissertation. GKSS Report 2006/7, 177 pp
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