Observatorium: Revolutions in Evolution

Diese öffentliche Abendveranstaltung findet im Rahmen des dreitägigen Observatoriums zum Thema Revolution in Evolution am Wissenschaftskolleg statt.

Begrüßung: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Einführung und Idee: Dieter Ebert, Permanent Fellow em.

Moderation: Adam Rutherford

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Artificial intelligence is rocking our planet. Even in the sciences, where creative and independent thinking is believed to be the main driver of progress, AI has become a permanent component of the scientific environment. How will AI affect the future of research in ecology, evolution, and behavior? Is it a powerful tool to drive insights or a threat to creativity and independence of research? Will AI determine what research will look like in the coming decade? The Observatorium “Revolutions in Evolution” gives a voice to scientists discussing the future of AI in the field of evolution.

Adam Rutherford 
 

Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, author, broadcaster, and lecturer in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London, where he teaches genetics, race science, history of eugenics, and science communication. He has worked as an editor at Nature, presents science programmes for the BBC, and has written multiple books on genetics and human history.

Tim Landgraf 
 

Tim Landgraf is Professor of Artificial and Collective Intelligence at the Dahlem Center for Machine Learning and Robotics, Freie Universität Berlin. He is a computer scientist working at the interface of artificial intelligence, biology, and robotics, with a focus on understanding collective behavior and emergent phenomena in natural systems. His research explores how AI can serve not only as a powerful analytical tool, but also as a new lens for asking questions and offering explanations in ecology, evolution, and behavior.

Hanna Kokko 
 

Hanna Kokko is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She is an evolutionary ecologist, aiming to understand diversity in evolved solutions to life’s problems. Her research topics over the years have ranged from sexual reproduction and sex role evolution to ageing, dispersal and migration, and social evolution. In 2013/2014, she was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Sylvia Cremer 
 

Sylvia Cremer is a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in Klosterneuburg. As a behavioral ecologist, she uses ant colonies as a model system to study cooperative disease defence and its epidemiological consequences in social species. She collaborates with computer scientist colleagues to develop AI models as a high-throughput system for the observation of insect behavior, aiming to understand the change in hygiene and social interactions of whole colonies upon infection. In 2006/2007, she was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.