Associated Members

Franziska S. Hanf

Franziska is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Climate, Climatic Change, and Society’ (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg, and Project Coordinator of the CLICCS project ‘Sustainable Adaptation Scenarios for Urban Areas – Water from Four Sides’. She conducts research on urban adaptation approaches with focus on water-related stressors and in particular on the question of how the city of Hamburg, Germany, is adapting to flood risk under climate change. She is interested in inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to integrate natural and social sciences, sustainable adaptation to climate change and sustainability transformations using methods such as system thinking, system dynamics modeling, leverage points perspective and scenario explorations. Franziska holds a PhD in ‘Climate Physics’ from the University of Potsdam, and before joining the CLICCS project, she worked as a Postdoc at the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaii on simulating and understanding the representation of monsoon precipitation processes in global climate models.