Bettina Steuri grew up in Switzerland and has lived in Hamburg for over twelve years. She is a research associate at the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) and is intensively involved in the development and communication of climate services. Her interdisciplinary background includes architecture, resource-efficient urban planning and a part-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Sustainability Management at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
Bettina Steuri has been contributing her expertise to GERICS since 2016. She coordinated the first funding phase of Netto-Null-2050, Cluster I of the Helmholtz Climate Initiative, in which a team of ten Helmholtz centres developed strategies for a carbon-neutral Germany by 2050. The focus was on technologies for carbon dioxide extraction, storage and utilisation. She also supported the practical development of the PALM-4U urban climate model and managed the Urban Living Lab as part of the Urban Climate in Transition funding programme.
She is particularly interested in communicating scientific findings to different target groups. She has published in renowned scientific journals and develops communication formats in inter- and transdisciplinary co-operation, often supplemented by illustrative (info-) graphics.
Selected publications:
- GERICS conference: Climate services for climate-resilient cities and regions (in German only)
- Karlsruhe City Forest in a changing climate
- Fashionable Climate Services: The Hats and Styles of User Engagement
- Net-Zero CO2 Germany - A Retrospect From the Year 2050
- Successful user-science interaction to co-develop the new urban climate model PALM-4U
- Behind the scenes of an interdisciplinary effort: conception, design and production of a flyer on climate change for the citizens of Hamburg
- Die Metropolregion Hamburg in einer +1,5°C wärmeren Welt
- Der IPCC-Sonderbericht über 1,5°C globale Erwärmung: Zum Hintergrund des Sonderberichts
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