BärbelWinklerBorn in  1964 I have always lived in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. After school I did a 2-years clerical training at Kodak's headquarters in Germany after which I joined the company's IT-department where I worked on IBM-mainframes with the programming language PL/1 until 2000. When Kodak switched to SAP's Enterprise system, I learned to code in ABAP and have been active in that space ever since, until 2007 with Kodak, then for 3 years at Carestreamhealth. Since 2011 I've been working for Kärcher in Winnenden, where I'm a system analyst in the development and basis team for the SAP-system. You can read more about my professional career on LinkedIn.

I have always had a lot of interest in environmental issues and have been active as a volunteer at the Zoological and Botanical Garden "Wilhelma" and a local conservation group for many years. Over time and while learning more and more about it, I became increasingly aware and concerned about climate change and what it will mean for generations to come. As a means to turn my concerns regarding human-caused climate change into something productive, I joined the Skeptical Science team in 2010 and started translating selected content into German. Since 2013 I have been coordinating the translation efforts for all languages and also contribute a blog-post every once in a while.

In 2015 our Skeptical Science team and the University of Queensland launched a massive open online course (MOOC) called "Denial101x - Making sense of climate science denial" on the edX platform. In this MOOC we teach the basics of human-caused climate change, how and why those basics often get distorted and what to do about that. I've been helping to run Denial101x as part of the MOOC- and forum-team throughout all its iterations.