Kerstin Krellenberg

Kerstin Krellenberg is an environmental scientist. In 2007, she started working at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig where she is still involved as a guest scientist in research on megacities, urban transformations, urban risks and vulnerabilities, as well as urban climate change response strategies. Since 2018 she has been working at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development in Dresden.

Krellenberg’s research project for her Mercator-IPC Fellowship is titled “A General Framework for Elaborating and Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Response in (Mega)cities.” Her research was on how to adapt cities to climate change, engaging a wide range of different actors coming from policy-making, academia, and civil society. Her research aimed to contribute to the overall knowledge on (mega)cities and climate change, especially regarding response action. The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality was used as a case study for her research and its practical application.