Friederike Otto

Friederike (Fredi) Elly Luise Otto (born 29 August 1982 in Kiel) is a climatologist.  She works at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London.  Her research is about whether and how much extreme weather conditions change as a result of external climate drivers. She examines how much human-caused climate change as well as vulnerability and exposure are responsible for events such heat waves, droughts and floods. Together with climate scientist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh she founded the international project World Weather Attribution which she still leads.  In 2021, she was one of the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. She was also one of ten scientists who had had important roles in scientific developments in 2021 highlighted in the scientific journal Nature.

Her work has been used in court against major oil companies and McKinsey & Company, claiming damages for climate events.

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