Nils Weitzel is Juniorprofessor for Environmetrics at TU Dortmund University. His research develops statistical methods to understand the spatio-temporal structure of climate variability, to reconstruct past climate from natural archives like pollen, and to incorporate constraints from past climate into future projections of the Earth system. After studying mathematics and geography, he wrote his PhD thesis in meteorology at the University of Bonn. The topic of his thesis was the reconstruction of climate fields from vegetation proxies using Bayesian hierarchical models. He was a Postdoc at Heidelberg University and the University of Tübingen from 2019 to 2024, working in the STACY project led by Kira Rehfeld and as PI of the NFDI4Earth Pilot Propagating complex uncertainties in data cubes. Until September 2025, he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom), leading the project Utilising palaeobotanical data to calibrate the response of vegetation to carbon dioxide in Earth system models. He is a steering group member of the PAGES working group "Climate Variability Across Scales (CVAS)".
