Veronika Eyring

Veronika Eyring is Professor of AI for Climate and Physical Systems at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Computer Science, of the University of Tübingen. She is Founding Director of connAIx – Research School for Applied AI Baden-Württemberg and a faculty member of the Tübingen AI Center. Veronika’s research focuses on the development of AI methods for modelling and predicting complex physical systems, with the climate system as the primary domain, working toward causal world models as cornerstones of next-generation physical digital twins that answer „what-if“ questions through physically consistent simulations. She has authored many peer-reviewed journal articles and has contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments since many years, including her role as Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 3 “Human influence on the climate system” in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report of Working Group I published in 2021. Veronika is involved in the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) since many years, for example through her roles as Chair of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) Panel (2014-2020) and member of scientific steering committees including the Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM) from 2008-2018. She is corresponding PI of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant on „Understanding and Modelling the Earth System with Machine Learning (USMILE)“, Fellow of the European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Worldfund. Veronika received the German Research Foundation (DFG) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2021 for her significant contributions to improving the understanding and accuracy of climate projections through process-oriented modeling and model evaluation (see film portrait here). She urged world leaders to take action at the COP27 World Leaders Summit Opening Ceremony in 2022. She received the AGU Ambassador Award and was inducted in the group of AGU Fellows in 2024, recognizing her outstanding contributions to climate science, the research community and society (see 2024 Honors Ceremony here). In 2024, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) appointed her as TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor. Veronika maintains a strong collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA) as Affiliate Scientist.