Honorary doctorate 2024 for Prof. Dr Dr Elke Weber

Elke Weber is a cognitive psychologist and behavioural theorist. Her research draws on psychology, economics, sociology, ecology and evolutionary biology to study and model the decisions of individuals and groups as they deal with uncertainty and trade-offs in the face of complex threats such as climate change. Throughout her career, Elke Weber has contributed her expertise to numerous organisations in the US and beyond. She has served on several National Academy of Sciences advisory committees on the human dimensions of global change, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board, and a German government committee on carbon neutrality.

Elke Weber was also lead author of the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2016 she received the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Society for Risk Analysis and in 2023 the Patrick Suppes Prize of the American Philosophical Society.