We recently welcomed Angel Hsu, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as a new…
A new Co-Editor-in-Chief for PLOS Climate
PLOS Climate is delighted to welcome a new Co-Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Niklas Boers! Niklas holds appointments in Germany at the Technical University of Munich as Professor of Earth System Modelling and at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research as the Leader of the Future Lab ‘Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene’, as well as a visiting professorship in the Department of Complexity Science at Beijing Normal University in China. With his team he works on Machine Learning approaches for Earth system science, including methodological developments for combining process-based with Machine Learning models, and for generative Machine Learning for bias correction and downscaling of climate model data. He has a leading role in several international activities focusing on these research themes.
Niklas will be working alongside our founding Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Emma Archer, our Executive Editor Dr Jamie Males, and our global team of Section Editors and Academic Editors as we continue to grow PLOS Climate‘s community.
While the scope of PLOS Climate remains broad and multidisciplinary, Niklas is particularly keen to encourage submissions on topics including:
Nonlinear aspects of climate dynamics
Abrupt transitions and tipping points in the Earth system
Extreme events in models and observations
Machine Learning for climate and Earth system science
Hybrid modelling combining physical with data-driven components
Machine Learning for bias correction and downscaling of climate models