Elke U. Weber

Elke Weber is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her research draws from psychology, economics, sociology, ecology, and evolutionary biology to examine and model the decisions of individuals and groups as they deal with uncertainty and trade-offs in complex threats like climate change. She has served on National Academy of Sciences advisory committees on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Science Advisory Board, on a Committee on Carbon Neutrality to the German government, and as a lead author on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of both the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2016, she received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society for Risk Analysis, in 2023 the Patrick Suppes Prize from the American Philosophical Society, and in 2024 the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Social Sciences. Since 2022, she has been Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin within the Excellence Cluster „Science of Intelligence“