Thessa is a Scientific Officer in the Evaluation section at ECMWF, working within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) programme. She has a background in meteorology and climate science, with over six years of experience in extreme events and attribution science. Her work focuses on understanding weather and climate extremes, linking specific events to climate change, and developing user-centered climate services to support decision-making. She is also experienced in science communication, stakeholder engagement, and co-designing climate products with end-users.
As part of the Climate Intelligence Team, she also contributes to C3S climate reporting activities such the European State of the Climate report.
- weather and climate extremes
- extreme event attribution
- design of user-centered climate services
2025-2026: Postdoctoral Researcher (EBD-CSIC, Sevilla)
2021-2025: PhD Biomedicine (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/ISGlobal, Barcelona). Research stays at ETH Zurich
2020-2021: Research Analyst (Climate Analytics, Berlin)
2019-2020: Communal Climate Mitigation Manager (Heidenheim)
2018-2019: Carlo Schmid Internship (UN-ESCAP, Bangkok)
2016-2018: MSc Climate Studies (Wageningen University); Thesis at ETH Zurich and Internship at GIZ
2012-2016: BSc Meteorology (Universität Hamburg)
- 2025
- Thessa M Beck, Dominik L Schumacher, Ana M Vicedo Cabrera, Sonia I Seneviratne, Hicham Achebak, Joan Ballester (January 2025) Mortality burden in 35 European countries attributed to anthropogenic warming during the record-breaking summer of 2022 . DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-14155
- Thessa M Beck, Lukas Gudmundsson, Dominik L Schumacher, Sonia I Seneviratne, Hicham Achebak, Joan Ballester (January 2025) Quantifying the human-induced climate change impact on heat-related mortality events in Europe with Extreme Event Attribution Methods . DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15814
- 2024
- Thessa M. Beck, Dominik L. Schumacher, Hicham Achebak, Ana M. Vicedo–Cabrera, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Joan Ballester (October 2024) Mortality burden attributed to anthropogenic warming during Europe’s 2022 record-breaking summer, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. DOI: 10.1038/s41612-024-00783-2
- Thessa Beck, Lukas Gudmundsson, Dominik Schumacher, Sonia Seneviratne, Hicham Achebak, Joan Ballester (December 2024) Increasing likelihood of heat-related mortality events with global warming: a continental epidemiological extreme event attribution study. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5549732/v1
- Kim R van Daalen, Cathryn Tonne, Jan C Semenza, Joacim Rocklöv, Anil Markandya, Niheer Dasandi, Slava Jankin, Hicham Achebak, Joan Ballester, Hannah Bechara, Thessa M Beck, Max W Callaghan, Bruno M Carvalho, Jonathan Chambers, Marta Cirah Pradas, Orin Courtenay, Shouro Dasgupta, Matthew J Eckelman, Zia Farooq, Peter Fransson, Elisa Gallo, Olga Gasparyan, Nube Gonzalez-Reviriego, Ian Hamilton, Risto Hänninen, Charles Hatfield, Kehan He, Aleksandra Kazmierczak, Vladimir Kendrovski, Harry Kennard, Gregor Kiesewetter, Rostislav Kouznetsov, Hedi Katre Kriit, Alba Llabrés-Brustenga, Simon J Lloyd, Martín Lotto Batista, Carla Maia, Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Zhifu Mi, Carles Milà, Jan C Minx, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Julia Palamarchuk, Dafni Kalatzi Pantera, Marcos Quijal-Zamorano, Peter Rafaj, Elizabeth J Z Robinson, Nacho Sánchez-Valdivia, Daniel Scamman, Oliver Schmoll, Maquins Odhiambo Sewe (July 2024) The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action, The Lancet Public Health. DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(24)00055-0
- 2023
- Thessa Beck, Lukas Gudmundsson, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Hicham Achebak, Dominik Schumacher, Joan Ballester (May 2023) Quantifying the contribution of climate change to heat-attributable mortality in Europe: Interfacing epidemiology and Extreme Event Attribution. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14521
- 2022
- Quentin Lejeune, Peter Pfleiderer, Thessa Beck, Inga Menke, Chahan Kropf, Inga Sauer, Carl Schleussner (March 2022) The Climate Impact Explorer, a free online tool providing sectoral impact projections for a wide range of scenarios down to the subnational level. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5499
