ECOtwins Second Annual Meeting
26/07/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF participated in the second annual meeting of the ECOtwins project, held at the University of Copenhagen on July 18th and 19th.
Every year, students attending the Introduction to Bioinformatics course have the opportunity to listen to different experts working in the field to get in touch with the applications and future challenges of this computational science.
The first guest speaker of this academic year was Paula Petrone, associate professor and Biomedical Data Science team leader at ISGlobal. Petrone holds a PhD in Biophysics from Stanford University and is currently a digital health startup consultant, mentor and activist on ethics and diversity issues in STEM careers.
Petrone’s presentation revolved around Artificial Intelligence: what it is, its applications and some of its main risks. As she helps organize the Women in Data Science Barcelona, she also mentioned the gender biases affecting the AI algorithms –and other discriminations such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status or location. Later, Petrone focused her explanation on how AI is being used in the biomedical and bioinformatics field and the possibilities.
In the second part of the talk, Paula Petrone expounded on how she got to be an AI expert through her career journey. She shared with the students what has been her professional background up until now; she told them there is always something to learn about every experience and encouraged them to find their niche of expertise and enhance it with different points of view.
26/07/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF participated in the second annual meeting of the ECOtwins project, held at the University of Copenhagen on July 18th and 19th.
22/07/2024
Cristina Campos, investigadora de la Cátedra UNESCO de Ciclo de Vida y Cambio Climático de ESCI-UPF, ha participado en los cursos de verano de la Universidad de Cantabria (UC) en una ponencia en la que abordó el turismo rural desde una perspectiva ambiental y presentó el proyecto GREENTOUR.
13/06/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF joins forces with the Catalan Institute of Health and ISGlobal on the CATALYSE Project to help mitigate the effects of climate change at the Catalan Health System.
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