Friederike Otto is a climatologist working as a Senior Lecturer at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College. A highly recognised expert in the field of attribution research, she examines the extent to which human-caused climate change as well as vulnerability and exposure are responsible for particular events such as heat waves, droughts and floods. She co-founded the international project World Weather Attribution which she leads. She was included in Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world and was among ten scientists highlighted in the journal Nature for shaping science in 2021.