She is a member of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and was one of the authors on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (SR15).Zickfeld completed a Master of Science degree in physics at the Free University of Berlin in 1998, followed by a doctorate in physics at the University of Potsdam in 2004.
[7] Since 2010, Zickfeld has been conducting research as a professor of climate science at the Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, British Columbia.
[3][4] Her research involves various aspects of climate change, including mitigation strategies such as negative emission technologies.
[10] She received a 2019 President’s Awards for Leadership in Sustainability from Simon Fraser University.
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