# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-richardson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:48:50.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katherine-richardson"
name: "Katherine Richardson"
slug: "katherine-richardson"
description: "Katherine Richardson Christensen is Professor in Biological Oceanography, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre and a researcher for the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen. She was the vice dean of the Faculty of Science from 2007–2012. Her research focuses on the importance of biological processes in the ocean for the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and how ocean biology, including diversity, contributes to ocean function in the Earth System."
tagline: "Oceanographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katherine_Richardson_(Cropped%2C_2009).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.4
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.291002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://curis.ku.dk/portal/en/persons/katherine-richardson(f9e940b1-29fc-487b-99c1-f8392020a08e).html"
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    title: "Katherine Richardson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Katherine Richardson Christensen"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Richardson"
    title: "Katherine Richardson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Richardson_Christensen"
    title: "Katherine Richardson Christensen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump