Cecilie Mauritzen


Cecilie Mauritzen is a Norwegian oceanographer who studies connections between ocean currents and climate change. She works as a researcher in the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

Education and career

Mauritzen was born in Oslo in 1961.
She graduated from the University of Bergen in 1987, and earned a PhD in 1994 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After working for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center and for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, she joined the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in 2002, and eventually became director of the climate division there. She was also the director of the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research from 2012 to 2013. She returned to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute after working as Vice President for Research at DNV GL, as chief scientist on the Kon-Tiki2 expedition, and as a head of research at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research.
She was a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.

Recognition

Mauritzen is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research.