About the talk

Climate change poses enormous risks to human health, directly, e.g., via increased heat exposure, and indirectly, e.g., via altered ecosystem functioning that favors the spread of pathogens. Given the multifaceted causal pathways that underlie observed changes in ecosystem and human health indicators, identifying the climate fingerprint in the analysis of long-term monitoring data remains a challenging task. The focus of Veronika’s talk will lie on the epidemiological research she and her collaborators have performed in recent years regarding the past and future impacts of anthropogenic climate change on temperature-related human mortality. She will also present some of her earlier research on freshwater phytoplankton blooms in a warming climate, together with a perspective on future research.

About the speaker

Veronika Huber has recently joined EBD-CSIC as a RyC Researcher. After initiating her career in freshwater ecology, she turned to environmental epidemiology, now studying climate change impacts on human health with a focus on heat stress. She is involved in a large international data sharing initiative aiming at deciphering the associations between environmental stressors, climate and health at a global scale.