Anders Levermann, born 1973 in Bremerhaven, Germany, studied physics in Marburg, Berlin and Kiel. In 2002 he received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the Weitzman Institut of Sciences in Rehovot, Israel. For more than 20 years he is researching at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, where he initially headed the research department for Sustainable Solutions and is now leading the department of Complexity Science. Since 2007 he also is a physics professor at the University of Potsdam and was researching between 2015 and 2023 at Columbia University in New York. For more than 15 years he is contributing to the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC), has authored more than 150 scientific articles increasingly covering economic topics. A study on the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet was the cover story of Nature magazine in 2020. An honour that was given to a second study on the influence of rainfall distribution on economic growth in 2022. Anders Levermann lives in Berlin, Germany.