Dutch Climate Research Initiative (KIN) enriched with climate scientist Caroline Katsman as scientific figurehead

Caroline Katsman, involved with the KIN from its founding phase, will focus as figurehead on initiating and connecting fundamental climate system research with KIN activities and societal stakeholders within and outside the KIN programs.

Science and industry collaboration

Caroline will chair consultations between university climate centres in the Netherlands beginning in 2025, and help shape and build the KIN’s strategic partnerships. With Caroline Katsman and Derk Loorbach, the KIN, whose mission is to accelerate climate transition by connecting science with civil society and business, sees its substantive scientific pillars, physical climate science and transition science, firmly secured in the organization. Caroline Katsman will be attached to the KIN for 1 day a week.

Ocean swirls; investigating unknown impacts

Caroline Katsman is a professor of Oceans & Climate at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at Delft University of Technology (TUD) and a visiting researcher at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on large-scale circulation of ocean currents and the role they play in our climate. Caroline Katsman received her PhD from Utrecht University with research on wind-driven ocean circulation partly conducted at KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute). From 2003 to 2013, she worked as a climate researcher at KNMI developing sea level rise scenarios for the Dutch coast to support policy strategies for coastal defence, including for the new Delta Commission. For her research on the unknown impact that ocean eddies have on how the Atlantic Ocean responds to climate change, she received an NWO Vidi grant in 2013.