Jonathan Donges

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Jonathan Donges is a postdoctoral researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany, as well as Stordalen Scholar at the Planetary Boundaries Research Lab at the Stockholm Resilience Centre of Stockholm University, Sweden. Furthermore, he co-heads PIK’s flagship project COPAN on Coevolutionary Pathways in the Earth system (www.pik-potsdam.de/copan) which investigates the mid- and long-term coevolution of natural and socio-economic subsystems of the Earth system and its relationship to planetary boundaries. For his PhD thesis on Earth system analysis Donges received the Donald L. Turcotte award for outstanding dissertations in nonlinear geophysics from the American Geophysical Union, the Friedrich-Hirzebruch dissertation award (2nd mention) of the German National Academic Foundation and the Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize of the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP, Hamburg.