Alexander Winkler

Alexander Winkler is an independent research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, where he leads the "Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate and Causality" group, and serves as scientific lead of the MC³ Center for Earth System Research. He earned his PhD in Earth System Sciences from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the University of Hamburg in collaboration with Boston University, followed by postdoctoral positions there and at MPI for Biogeochemistry, as well as a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. He currently holds an ERC Starting Grant for his project "PostPeak," investigating how land carbon dynamics shape the rise and fall of atmospheric CO2, building on his role coordinating the ERC Synergy Grant USMILE. His research combines process-based and machine-learning approaches to integrate Earth observations and better understand the coupled climate-carbon cycle system.