Julia Kaltenborn

Julia Kaltenborn is a PhD student at McGill University and the Mila-Quebec AI Institute. Her research is two-fold: She explores machine learning for climate model emulation, and cryospheric sciences. She focuses on creating ML resources that can be used cross-disciplinary, such as ClimateSet, and developing ML models that are actively used in the field, e.g., by MOSAiC, the largest polar expedition in history. Julia co-founded the NGO Unser Dialog, co-organized AI Helps Ukraine, and was a local Greenpeace leader in her youth. She has been a fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, received the Mitacs Globalink Research Fellowship, and was a DeepMind scholar. Last but not least, Julia was a member of the Juneau Icefield Research Expedition 2023 and has traversed the Juneau Icefield.