Katharina Ladewig

Managing Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research, Robert Koch Institute, Germany

Dr Katharina Ladewig is the Managing Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research (ZKI-PH) at the Robert Koch Institute, Germany's National Public Health Institute. Her main focus is to establish ZKI-PH as a recognized centre for AI-supported public health research. She oversees five research groups in AI: Fundamentals, Phylogenomics, Image Analysis, Climate & Societal Analysis, and Visualization, while managing research collaborations, funding strategies, project management, and science communication. Prior to her role at the Robert Koch Institute, she served as Managing Director for EIT Health UK-Ireland and EIT Health Germany, contributing to a European network aimed at advancing healthcare innovations. She has significant experience managing international research projects in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and health, and has led partnerships between industry and academia in Germany and Australia. Dr Ladewig earned her PhD in Bio-Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2009 and an MBA from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2015.