Niki Lohmann

Niki Lohmann is a research assistant at the chair for Computational Earth System Sciences at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C³S) and a guest researcher at the Earth Resilience Science Unit at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Their research focuses on tipping elements in the Earth system, and how risks of tipping points and cascades can be assessed under future global warming scenarios.

Biography

I'm a research assistant at the chair for Computational Earth System Sciences, where I focus on climate tipping points and their interactions, and deriving network model representations of tipping elements from a broad empirical basis. I strive to explore latest questions on tipping risks and scenarios for future global warming to deliver relevant insights to current discussions.

I graduated with a master's degree in Computer Science, and wrote my master's thesis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on the usage of causal inference methods for tipping point interactions.

Education:

2022-2025: Masters in Computer Science at Technical University of Berlin

2018-2022: Bachelors in Computer Science at Technical University of Munich

International experience:

March 2025: Workshop on Mathematics of Climate Tipping Points

August 2023 - December 2023: Semester abroad at Montana State University, United States

June 2022 - August 2022: Internship at the IT department of CERN

Research

Topics:

  • Climate Tipping Elements
  • Tipping Point Interactions
  • Emission and Temperature Pathways

Methods:

  • Coupled Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
  • Complex Systems Science
  • Causal Inference
Publications

Conference contributions

  • 03/2025: Mathematics of Climate Tipping Points, Poster Presentation "Methods for Causal Discovery of Tipping Point Interactions

Academic Theses

06/2025: Master's Thesis "Multivariate Causal Inference Methods Comparison and Application to Climate Tipping Point Interactions" at TU Berlin and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Grade 1.0

04/2022: Bachelor's Thesis "Coupling of Simulink Controller and Robot Simulation for Simulating Compliant Contacts with the Environment" at TU Munich and German Aerospace Center (DLR), Grade 1.0

Funding

I'm grateful for funding by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung under the grant agreement ID 25545.

Teaching

Lectures and courses at Goethe University Frankfurt

  • WiSe 2025/26: Supervisor for student research projects in the lecture "Computational Earth System Sciences - From Tipping Points to Earth Resilience"

Contact

Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S)

Eschersheimer Landstraße 121

60322 Frankfurt am Main

Email: Lohmann[at]c3s.uni-frankfurt.de