Forum Basiliense Lecture with Prof. Dr. Ricarda Winkelmann: "Tipping points in the climate system. Harbingers from the polar ice"

31 Oct 2025

18:00

Gehry Auditorium, Novartis Campus, Fabrikstrasse 15, 4056 Basel.

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Forum Basiliense

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Forum Basiliense Lecture with Prof. Dr. Ricarda Winkelmann: "Tipping points in the climate system. Harbingers from the polar ice"

Prof. Ricarda Winkelmann, renowned physicist and climate scientist, provides fascinating insights into the dynamics of ice sheets, ecosystems and global change processes.

Prof. Dr. Ricarda Winkelmann is the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology. As a physicist and climate scientist, she contributes significantly to our understanding of the complex dynamics of the Earth system, including the ice dynamics of Greenland and Antarctica, the resilience of ecosystems and tipping dynamics. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Earth Commission and has participated in several academic expeditions to the Andes and Antarctica.

The lecture will be held in German with simultaneous translation into English.

Date: Fri, 31.10., 18:00.

Location: Gehry Auditorium, Novartis Campus, Fabrikstrasse 15, 4056 Basel.

Applications: by 30.9.2025 to forum-basiliense@unibas.ch

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