Claudia I. Czimczik

Dr. Czimczik is a biogeochemist who studies the role of terrestrial ecosystems in Earth's climate system. She combines field observations, often at climate change experiments or using space-for-time sequences, with geochemical analyses in the laboratory, primarily the analysis of radiocarbon. Most of her research focuses on understanding the permafrost carbon feedback to climate change by quantifying the sources, magnitude, timing of carbon emissions from permafrost ecosystems. Other work evolves around understanding sources of ambient aerosol and carbon dioxide related to changes in vegetation productivity and composition, wildfire, and anthropogenic activities, incl. decarbonization of cities and industries. She received her undergraduate and graduate education in Germany. She obtained a Diplom in Geoecology from the University of Bayreuth (1999) and a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry and Friedrich-Schiller-University (2003) in Jena. She joined UCI’s Department of Earth System Science (ESS) as a researcher in 2003, and the faculty in 2011.