Daniela Jacob is Chair of the Climate Council of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and of the German Committee for Sustainability Research in Future Earth (DKN) and Co-Chair of WPN2030. She was a member of the European Commission's Mission Board for "Adaptation to Climate Change including Societal Transformation".

She is also a member of the Earth League and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Destination Earth Initiative until 2024. Daniela Jacob has been an ECMWF Fellow from 2021 to 2023. Since 2023 she is a Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC). Her research focuses on regional climate modelling, climate services and adaptation to climate change, climate resilient development, sustainability as well as scientific support for the societal transformation towards a sustainable and climate-resilient 1.5°C lifestyle.

Until 2024, Daniela Jacob was editor-in-chief of the journal "Climate Services", a scientific journal she co-founded with Elsevier.