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Heidelberg scientist Prof. Dr Joacim Rocklöv is giving a lecture on artificial Intelligence, climate change and infectious diseases. The epidemiologist, mathematician and statistician will show how AI can help to assess the health impacts of global challenges such as climatic changes and climate-sensitive diseases. His contribution is part of the Ruperto Carola Lecture Series “Human and Algorithm – Whose is the Future?”, which Heidelberg University is holding this winter semester. The lecture (in English) “AI, Climate Change and Infectious Diseases” with Prof. Rocklöv is taking place on Monday, 10 November 2025, in the Great Hall of the New University, starting at 6.15pm.
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Heidelberg, 6 November 2025
Lecture: Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
In the Ruperto Carola Lecture Series Joacim Rocklöv speaks on using AI to assess global challenges
Heidelberg scientist Prof. Dr Joacim Rocklöv is giving a lecture on artificial Intelligence, climate change and infectious diseases. The epidemiologist, mathematician and statistician will show how AI can help to assess the health impacts of global challenges such as climatic changes and climate-sensitive diseases. His contribution is part of the Ruperto Carola Lecture Series “Human and Algorithm – Whose is the Future?”, which Heidelberg University is holding this winter semester. The lecture (in English) “AI, Climate Change and Infectious Diseases” with Prof. Rocklöv is taking place on Monday, 10 November 2025, in the Great Hall of the New University, and not in the Great Hall of the Old University, starting at 6.15pm.
In his lecture the speaker will explain how climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution are intertwined, and how AI-based models and approaches from data science are opening up new possibilities to assess the health impacts of these planetary changes. Prof. Rocklöv will present different types of modelling and show how these technologies can help to close critical data gaps. An Alexander von Humboldt Professor at Ruperto Carola, Joacim Rocklöv is conducting research in a range of projects at the university and at Heidelberg University Hospital on the effects of climate and environmental changes on public health. For that purpose, he leads the Heidelberg Planetary Health Hub, which is based at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health and the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing.
The Ruperto Carola Lecture Series is part of an approach to focal themes. With it, Heidelberg University seeks to take socially relevant research questions to a broad public twice a year in differing formats. In the current series on the focal theme ACTIVE & PASSIVE the researchers, from differing disciplinary perspectives, take up complex issues relative to dealing with artificial intelligence. The lecture series seeks to promote dialogue with the interested public. The series was jointly designed by Prof. Dr Andreas Dreuw, Heidelberg University’s Vice-Rector for Research and Digitalization, and Dr Nicole Najemnik, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Ruperto Carola, with support from the university’s AI Board.
Following the event with Prof. Rocklöv are six more lectures with speakers from Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Konstanz and Zurich (Switzerland), inter alia dealing with AI and the future of democracy, new concepts of intelligence, or handling artificial agents. They will take place in the Great Hall of the Old University – another exception being on 17 November – beginning at 6.15pm. Recordings will subsequently be available on heiONLINE, the central portal of Heidelberg University with lectures, panels and events in digital formats.
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