Feulner receives unscheduled professorship for climate physics in Potsdam

Feulner receives unscheduled professorship for climate physics in Potsdam

Georg Feulner, a respected scientist from climate research, was recently awarded the title of an unscheduled professor in the field of climate physics by the University of Potsdam. This was done in May 2025 to honor his outstanding contributions to teaching and research, in particular on the paleoclimatic development of the earth system. Potsdam-Institut for climate congregation (PIK) Education is active.

As deputy head of the "Earth System Analysis" department at the PIK, Feulner heads the working group "Past and Future of Earth". Here he coordinates the development of the new earth system model Poem, which plays an important role in climate modeling, as well as the recording and analysis of climate data from different eras. Climate research is a wide field that deals with the changes in the climate and its effects, as is listed in Education server.

focus in research

Feulner's scientific work focuses in particular:

• The research of the climate in earth history
• The climate of the early earth
• former ice age
• greenhouse climate of the past
• climate changes during mass extinction
• climate change caused by humans

His teaching activities at the University of Potsdam decade over a decade. In 2015 he received the faculty award for outstanding teaching and has since established himself as a private lecturer after he was appointed private lecturer in 2022 and previously habilitated in 2018. These successes underline his commitment in academic training and the importance of his combination of subjects, which deals with historical climatic conditions.

international recognition

His expertise is not only recognized in Germany: in 2018 he was awarded the Ida Pfeiffer professorship at the University of Vienna, and in 2024 he received the Sir Kirby-Fellowship at the School of Ocean Sciences from Bangor University in Great Britain. Such honors are not only a testimony to his work, but also an indicator of the international interest in paleoclimatology, an area that deals with the examination of past climatic conditions.

The interdisciplinary approach to climate research that Feulner and his colleagues pursue is crucial to understand and cope with the challenges of climate change sustainably. With his versatile research interests, he makes a significant contribution to expanding the knowledge of climate development on Earth and reacting to the pressing questions of the present.