Scientific Coordinator PROVIDE

Inga Menke is the Scientific Coordinator of PROVIDE and leads the HU work on the SPARCCLE project. Additionally, she is a Senior Research Scholar in the Integrated Climate Impacts Research Group, part of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. Inga holds a Master’s degree in Disaster Management and Risk Governance from the University of Bonn and a Magister in Political Science, Peace and Conflict Management, and Geography from the University of Marburg. Before joining HU, she worked as the Deputy Head of the Climate Science team at Climate Analytics in Berlin, Germany.

Her work concentrates on stakeholder engagement, including designing participatory processes, co-developing scenarios, facilitating science-policy dialogues, and building capacity among scientists and stakeholders. A key aspect of her work has been her engagement in the field of climate litigation, where she has contributed to advancing interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding. She has extensive experience in staff management, project management and funding. In 2022-2023 Inga participated in a year-long management course aimed at women offered by the Berliner Frauenbund (“die Löwin”). Contents included time and self-management, self-presentation, effective management of meetings, negotiation skills and personal leadership.

Research Interests

  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Climate Impacts
  • Climate Litigation

Projects

PROVIDE

SPARCCLE

Publications

Climatic risks to adaptive capacity (2024). Serdeczny et al. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-023-10103-3

Overcoming global inequality is critical for land-based mitigation in line with the Paris Agreement (2022). Humpenöder et al. Nature Communications. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35114-7

Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies (2021). Callaghan et al. Nature Climate Change. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01168-6

Current needs for climate services in West Africa: Results from two stakeholder surveys (2020). B. Sultana, Q. Lejeune, I. Menke, G. Maskell, K. Lee, M. Noblet, I. Sy, P. Roudier. Climate Services. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2020.100166

Increasing risks of apple tree frost damage under climate change (2019). Peter Pfleiderer, Inga Menke, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner. Climatic Change. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10584-019-02570-y

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