Veronika is Head of the Earth System Model Evaluation & Analysis Department at DLR and Professor of Climate Modelling at the University of Bremen. Her research focuses on understanding and modelling the Earth system with machine learning to improve climate projections and technology assessments for actionable climate science. She was Coordinating Lead Author of IPCC AR6 and is actively involved in WCRP activities (e.g. CMIP Panel Chair). She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2021.