Mateo Duque
| Department | Climate Dynamics |
| Group | Climate-Biosphere Interactions |
| Position | Scientist |
| phone | +49 40 41173-458 |
| mateo.duque@mpimet.mpg.de | |
| Room | B 316 |
About
I am a junior researcher learning about climate-land-surface interactions over multi-millennial timescales. With climate models of different levels of complexity, I research causes, amplitudes, and rates of change of past and projected climate variability, considering always the related changes in vegetation cover and the global carbon cycle.
Studies
| 2020–2023 | Doctorate at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Hamburg, Germany) |
| 2016–2018 | M. Sc. Environmental Engineering at Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia) |
| 2010–2015 | B. Sc. Biological Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín (Medellín, Colombia) |
Peer-reviewed research articles
- Duque-Villegas, M., Claussen, M., Kleinen, T., Bader, J. & Reick, C. H. (2025). Pattern scaling of simulated vegetation change in northern Africa during glacial cycles. Climate of the Past, 21, 773–794. doi:10.5194/cp-21-773-2025
- Duque-Villegas, M., Claussen, M., Brovkin, V. & Kleinen, T. (2022). Effects of orbital forcing, greenhouse gases and ice sheets on Saharan greening in past and future multi-millennia. Climate of the Past, 18, 1897–1914. doi:10.5194/cp-18-1897-2022
- Duque-Villegas, M., Salazar, J. F. & Rendón, A. M. (2019). Tipping the ENSO into a permanent El Niño can trigger state transitions in global terrestrial ecosystems. Earth System Dynamics, 10, 631–650. doi:10.5194/esd-10-631-2019