Suppose climate change is true and caused by humans. Climate change often leads to intense discussions. What are its causes? Can we accurately model climate change? What is our responsibility as Christians to handle this problem? This talk discusses the role of burning fossil fuels, the idea of tipping points in scientific models, and the possible consequences of climate change for our life on earth.
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Doris Vollmer studied physics at the University of Bielefeld, the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). She completed her PhD at the University of Basel in physical chemistry. For her habilitation (2000) she moved to Mainz and joined the group of Prof. Manfred Schmidt. From 2001-2002 she worked at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh (Great Britain) as a Marie Curie Fellowship. In 2002 she joined the group of Hans-Jürgen Butt and became group leader in May 2003. In 2015 she obtained an associate professorship at the Physics Department of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Innovative Training Network (ITN) on Lubricant Impregnated Slippery Surfaces (LubISS) (https://www.lubiss.eu/).
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