TwinChain
Toward digital twins for holistic tracing of transmission chains
The aim of TwinChain is to develop various models of human movement, fluid dynamics, and disease transmission on different spatial scales and integrate them into a performant framework that can provide a holistic representation of disease spread within a certain region, with special focus on transmission in care homes and hospitals. With a structure and parameterisation informed by empirical data and domain knowledge from project partners at the Charité and the Cologne Public Health Department, the framework will be used to granularly model seasonal and outbreak dynamics of influenza and other respiratory pathogens, and assess the effectiveness of various non-pharmaceutical interventions at curbing this spread.
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Project details
Responsible persons
Project Period
Start: January 2026
End: February 2028
Cooperation Partners
Institute for Software Technology, German Aerospace Center, Cologne
Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Hermann-Rietschel Institute, Technische Universität Berlin
Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, HM Munich University of Applied Sciences
Public Health Department Cologne
Funding
Federal Ministry of Research, Techonology and Space, Germany - Grant number 031L0325B