How can we… use AI to better understand the societal impact of heatwaves?
16 October 2026
Climate change is escalating the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events, which pose a significant threat to public health. The correlation between heat and adverse outcomes is established, but the underlying social behavioural drivers remain poorly understood. I’m working on a project with a group of PhD students based at Cambridge, US and Hong Kong that was born out of a research challenge with a predefined topic to investigate the impact of heatwaves. Being awarded funding in the 2025 Accelerate-C2D3 funding call enabled us to take this research further and implement an agent-based model simulation.
