• Professor for Decision-making under high Risk and Uncertainty, ITAS
• Head of the research group “Adaptive Behavior under Risk and Uncertainty”
• Co-Director of the Real-World Lab “ERNIE”, KIT
• Associated Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
• Member of the Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research, DWD, Offenbach

• Empirical behavioral research on decisions under risk and uncertainty
• Risk communication and “boosting” human judgment and decision-making
• Extreme weather and climate change

• WEXICOM: Weather warnings: from EXtreme event Information to COMunication and action
• COMING DECADE: Decadal climate predictions for Europe
• ReRiskCom: Effective resolutions for extreme weather forecast communication

Rüsenberg, F.; Fleischhut, N. (2026)
A behavioral change approach to understanding true demand for future climate information. Climatic Change, 179, Article 101
doi: 10.1007/s10584-026-04163-y

Schneider, M.; McDowell, M.; Guttorp, P.; Steel, E. A.; Fleischhut, N. (2022)
Effective uncertainty visualization for aftershock forecast maps. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22(4), 1499-1518
doi: 10.5194/nhess-22-1499-2022

Fleischhut, N.; Jenny, M. A. (2019)
Kommunikationsproblem Naturgefahren: Wie lassen sich Hochwasserrisiken transparent und verständlich darstellen? (Studien und Gutachten im Auftrag des Sachverständigenrats für Verbraucherfragen). Berlin: Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen
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Fundel, V. J.; Fleischhut, N.; Herzog, S. M.; Göber, M.; Hagedorn, R. (2019)
Promoting the use of probabilistic weather forecasts through a dialogue between scientists, developers and end-users. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 145(S1), 210-231
doi: 10.1002/qj.3482

Meder, B.; Fleischhut, N.; Osman, M. (2018)
Beyond the confines of choice architecture: A critical analysis. Journal of Economic Psychology, 68(October), 36-44
doi: 10.1016/j.joep.2018.08.004