Friederike Otto Author

Dr. Friederike Otto is a climate researcher, physicist, and doctor of philosophy. At the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, she researches extreme weather and its effects on society, and she has helped develop the new field of attribution science. She is one of a handful of scientists around the world who can calculate in real time how much climate change has impacted our weather. Her first book, Angry Weather, was published in 2020. In 2021, she was named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world. She lives in London.