Daniel Lincke is a researcher in the Adaptation and Social Learning process, where he is in charge of the application and further development of the DIVA model for coastal impacts and adaptation. He studied Computer Science at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and graduated in 2003 (Diploma). After working two years in an industrial researched company he became a PhD student at PIK in 2006. After finishing his PhD (supervised at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg) in 2012 he joined GCF as a scientific programmer. He has also former affiliations with State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (Beijing Normal University) and with the Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean” at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU).