Wolfgang Cramer

Wolfgang Cramer

Professor Dr Wolfgang Cramer, DR (CNRS)

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Professor Dr Wolfgang Cramer, environmental geographer and global ecologist, is research director (CNRS) at the Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE), in Aix-en-Provence (France).

Wolfgang Cramer received his academic training at the Universities of Gießen/Germany (geography, diploma 1981) and Uppsala/Sweden (plant ecology, Ph.D. 1986).

From 1992 to 2022, he was a contributor in many roles to the IPCC (Peace Nobel Prize 2007, Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2022), most recently as Lead Author for the Sixth Assessment Report. With Joël Guiot, he co-founded the Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MedECC, North-South Prize 2020). He is (with James Ford, University of Leeds, UK) co-chief editor of the Springer journal Nature. Regional Environmental Change. In 2017, he was elected associate member of the Académie d'Agriculture de France.

  • 1987-1993 - lecturer/professor - epartment of Geography, Trondheim University (Trondheim, Norway)
  • 1987-1993 - visiting scholar - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria)
  • 1992-2011 - department head - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK, Potsdam, Germany)
  • 2003-2011 - professor of global ecology - Potsdam University (Potsdam, Germany)
  • 2007-2008 - visiting scientist - Centre for Research and Education in Environmental Geosciences (CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France)
  • since 2011 - Research Director (CNRS) - Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, France)