In her research Sonia Seneviratne analyzes climate extremes, land-climate processes, and climate changes. She uses several methods and approaches for these investigations: modeling (climate modeling, land surface modeling), data analysis (based on observations, reanalysis data, model simulations, satellite data), new approaches for the derivation of validation datasets, and own field experiments. Sonia Seneviratne has received several awards for her research, among others the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union (2013) and a consolidator grant of the European Research Council (ERC, 2014). In 2014 Prof. Seneviratne was included on the highly-cited scientists list from Thomson Reuters. Since 2018, she is a coordinating lead author of the 6th assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Her talk will be on 'Projecting changes at 1.5°C vs 2°C global warming: The role of land processes'.
