ICREA Research Professor and Global Health Resilience Group Leader, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
PhD in Mathematics (Statistical Modelling for Climate and Health)
Climate Change and Infectious Disease Modelling
IPCC AR7 Health and Wellbeing Chapter Lead Author
Rachel Lowe obtained a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Exeter in 2010. Her thesis focused on spatiotemporal modelling of dengue epidemics in Brazil. She held postdoctoral positions at the UNESCO-IAEA International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy and the Catalan Institute for Climate Sciences in Spain, working at the interface of climate prediction science and public health decision-making. In 2017 she was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, which allowed her to create the Planetary Health & Infectious Diseases Lab at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Rachel now leads the Global Health Resilience group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Between 2021-2024, she served as Director of the Lancet Countdown in Europe, a transdisciplinary collaboration tracking progress on health and climate change. In 2025, Rachel was nominated as a lead author of the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report health and wellbeing chapter.