Research
Our research projects, together with the datasets, software, and other resources that come out of them.
Ein Projekt der Kommission Digitalisierung der Deutschen Diabetes Gesellschaft: ein KI-gestützter Chatbot, der Wissen aus Leitlinien und Praxisempfehlungen evidenzbasiert und leitliniengerecht vermittelt — als Web-App für Menschen mit Diabetes und als Web-App für Behandelnde außerhalb der Diabetologie. Das barrierefreie Dialogsystem unterstützt Ein- und Ausgabe über Audio und passt die Schriftgrößen an.
An interdisciplinary project that compares how “intelligence” is conceptualised in the life sciences and in artificial intelligence, together with Physiology, History and Ethics of Medicine, and Linguistics. Our subproject provides the methods and tools for the text analysis — automated collection of literature from PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, and medRxiv, and NLP methods based on large language models to extract information, discover concept networks and their trends over time, and search these corpora semantically.
How does digitalisation shape political opinion-forming and decision-making, and how does information reach the public in the age of social networks? EPINetz develops and tests interdisciplinary methods for exploring political information networks, grounded in network-based and discourse-oriented policy field research, and makes the results available through an interactive platform for researchers, journalists, teachers, and the interested public. Data is collected close to real time from news portals, social media posts by politically relevant people and organisations, and documents of the Bundestag. Michael Gertz is principal investigator for the computer science part of the project and leads the Heidelberg team.
A DFG-Nachwuchsakademie at Heidelberg University, directed by Michael Gertz, on transdisciplinary instruments for climate change adaptation and computer-aided adaptation strategies. Doctoral researchers and postdocs from all disciplines developed interdisciplinary questions and their own project ideas, supported by a circle of experts from geography, hydrology and climatology, global health, psychology, and medicine, among them researchers from Heidelberg University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The academy started with a three-day module in Heidelberg in October 2024, followed by two colloquia for exchange and coaching. The project has been completed.