Rachel Lowe

Rachel is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a visiting scholar at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). Her research focuses on the impact of climate change on the evolution of vector-borne diseases. She obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Exeter. Her thesis concerned spatio-temporal modelling of climate-sensitive disease risk, with a focus on early warning systems for dengue in Brazil. She held postdoctoral positions at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and the Catalan Institute for Climate Sciences (IC3) in Barcelona, Spain, working at the interface of climate prediction science and public health decision-making.