Julia Pongratz has studied geography in Munich and at the University of Maryland, then investigated land use change as a climate driver throughout the last millennium during her PhD work at the University of Hamburg, which won several awards. After a postdoc at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, looking into food security and geoengineering, Julia Pongratz established a junior research group at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology on “Forest Management in the Earth System”. She now seeks to connect disciplines around the interactions of humans and ecosystems, including the topics of carbon dioxide removal and the multifunctionality of land on our way to climate neutrality.
