Prof Dr Michiel Schaeffer is Lead Science Advisor and co-founder at Climate Analytics (Germany), as well as Chief Scientist at finres (France). He is a biophysicist and received his PhD in Dynamic Meteorology at University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, specialising in the interactions between atmosphere, ocean, ecosystems and society. He is also a researcher and lecturer at the International Islamic University of Indonesia and affiliated with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Geosciences Faculty, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 

Michiel has over 25 years of experience and expertise in climate modelling and climate impact science, energy-system analysis, mitigation and adaptation, and providing scientific advice at the climate-policy interface for both developing and developed countries, including targeted scientific support to SIDS and LDCs in the UNFCCC process. He is an author of, a.o. UNEP  Emissions and Adaptation Gap reports, World Bank Turn Down the Heat reports, IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report and many peer-reviewed scientific studies, including in Nature, Science, Nature Climate Change, World Development, PNAS, GRL, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Journal of Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Regional Environmental Change.