Friederike Otto
German British climatologist
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| 2025 | Released the English edition 'Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change' through Greystone Books. |
| 2023 | Published 'Klimaungerechtigkeit: Was die Klimakatastrophe mit Kapitalismus, Rassismus und Sexismus zu tun hat' in Berlin through Ullstein publishing house. |
| 2023 | Published 'Climate Injustice' (originally in German: 'Klimaungerechtigkeit'), exploring the disproportionate impact of climate change on marginalized communities. |
| 2022 | Contributed a chapter 'Unlearn Wissenschaft' to the feminist book 'Unlearn Patriarchy', analyzing patriarchal structures in science. |
| 2021 | Included in Time 100, the annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. |
| 2021 | Highlighted by the scientific journal Nature as one of ten scientists who had important roles in scientific developments that year. |
| 2020 | Maintained that Hurricane Laura was the result of climate change effects. |
| 2019 | Released the English edition 'Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change' through Greystone Books. |
| 2019 | Published two books on climate change: 'Wütendes Wetter' in German (Ullstein Berlin) and 'Angry Weather' in English (Greystone Books), which explore the scientific connections between extreme weather events and climate change. |
| 2017 | Conducted research on Hurricane Harvey, concluding it caused between 12% and 22% of additional rainfall on Houston due to climate change. |
| 2012 | Earned a PhD in philosophy of science from the Free University of Berlin. |
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