Nicole Van Lipzig

Nicole Van Lipzig heads the division of Geography and has lead Leuven Sustainable Earth, which is the expertise centre on sustainability research at KU Leuven. She is a world-leading geographer and earth system scientist particularly interested in climate impacts, climate extremes, wind energy, and urban and polar climate. In the past fifteen years, Prof. Van Lipzig coordinated fundamental research projects in Europe and Antarctica, and spearheaded research on land use change and urbanisation impacts on local climate in economically-developing regions in Subsaharan Africa. Besides fundamental research, she supports comprehensive initiatives on environmental sustainability and climate change, and provided more than 60 outreach presentations for stakeholders and the general public.