Bayreuth graduate awarded for groundbreaking dissertation on climate change research

The geographer Dr. Isabell Haag has been awarded the Wladimir Köppen Prize 2021 of the Cluster of Excellence for Climate Research CLICCS for her dissertation written in the Research Group of Climatology at the University of Bayreuth. She received the award, which is endowed with 5,000 euros, at the University of Hamburg on July 4, 2022. In her award-winning work, she uses the example of two villages in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan to show how linking different knowledge systems can advance international research on global climate change.