Christian Franzke

I am a scientist with a broad interest in climate science. Currently my research focuses on understanding climate variability across scales, climate change, extreme weather and climate events, weather and climate risks, and the economics of climate change. I am a Professor and Project Leader at the Center for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Pusan National University. I teach in the Department of Carbon Neutrality and Climate Change. I am also active in organizing EGU activities.

Degrees Awarded
• PhD (Dr. Rer. Nat.) 2001 in Natural Sciences; University of Hamburg, Germany
• Diplom 1998 in Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Vordiplom 1995 in Meteorology, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Scientific Path
• Professor: Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, 03/2025 -
• Associate Professor: Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, 03/2021 - 02/2025
• Project Leader (Climate System Dynamics, Extremes and Risks): IBS Center for Climate Physics, Busan, South Korea, 03/2021 -
• Research Associate: School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, Germany, 07/2020 - 12/2020
• Senior Research Scientist, Meteorological Institute and Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, University of Hamburg, Germany, 08/2013 – 06/2020
• Senior Research Scientist, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK, 07/2007 – 07/2013
• Postgraduate Scientist, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA, 07/2006 – 06/2007
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Atmosphere-Ocean Science, New York University, New York, USA 01/2003 – 06/2006
• Research Associate, Environment Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA, 09/2001 – 12/2002

Selected publications

Ravinandrasana, V. and C. Franzke, 2025: The first emergence of unprecedented global water scarcity in the Anthropocene. Nat Commun 16, 8281
Moon, J., J. Streffing, S. Lee, T. Semmler, M. Andrés-Martínez, J. Chen, E. Cho, J. Chu, C. Franzke, J. Gärtner, R. Ghosh, J. Hegewald, S. Hong, D. Kim, N. Koldunov, J. Lee, Z. Lin, C. Liu, S. Loza, W. Park, W. Roh, D. Sein, S. Sharma, D. Sidorenko, J. Son, M. Stuecker, Q. Wang, G. Yi, M. Zapponini, T. Jung, and A. Timmermann, 2025: Earth’s future climate and its variability simulated at 9 km global resolution. Earth System Dynamics, 16, 1103–1134.
Wang, M., Huang, Y., Franzke, C., Yuan, N., Fu, Z. and Boers, N., 2025: Evidence for preferred propagating terrestrial heatwave pathways due to Rossby wave activity. Nat Commun
Verjans, V., C. Franzke, S.-S. Lee, I.-W. Kim, S. Tilmes, D. Lawrence, F. Vitt, and F. Li, 2025: Quantifying CO₂ forcing effects on lightning, wildfires, and climate interactions. Science Advances, 11, adt5088.