SICSS
SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED
CLIMATE AND EARTH
SYSTEM SCIENCES
CLIMATE AND EARTH
SYSTEM SCIENCES
Wübben Foundation Student GrantSICSS master's students receive awards
20 November 2025
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Katherine Linscott (left) and Clara Harms (right)
Clara Harms and Katherine Linscott can look forward to receiving a scholarship from the Wübben Science Foundation during the second half of their master's studies. For their outstanding achievements in the interdisciplinary Integrated Climate System Sciences program at the SICSS graduate school and their contributions to the topic of climate futures, both will now receive 1,000 euros per month for one year.
How can we realize a future without living beyond our means? How can climate protection be designed fairly? Environmental physicist Clara Harms is particularly interested in the applicability of climate research and the interfaces between the natural climate system and society. With her research, Clara wants to contribute to expanding the knowledge necessary to advance the social transformations that are crucial for effective climate protection and climate adaptation.
Katherine Linscott, originally from Canada, is also intensively engaged with these issues: Can countries like her home country, whose economies are heavily dependent on oil production, achieve a just transition away from fossil fuels without significantly jeopardizing their level of prosperity? Katherine has investigated strategies for financing such a transition, mobilizing public support, and tapping into potential alternative markets to which many of these countries could switch. She is particularly motivated by the challenge of translating complex interrelationships into concrete measures and proposing practical solutions.
"I am delighted for Clara and Katherine and congratulate them warmly on this great success. I greatly appreciate both of them as committed, intelligent individuals with the ability to think broadly,“ says CLICCS spokesperson Prof. Johanna Baehr. ”With this funding, they can now focus even more on their studies and their theses on important issues for the future. I am very excited and really looking forward to continuing to work with them both."
