LLMs in Environmental ResearchIn-Person Event

Wednesday 29 Oct 2025, 09:00 → 16:00 Europe/Berlin

Saal 2 (KUBUS)

Large Language Models (LLMs) provide unprecedented opportunities in Natural Language Processing (NLP), enabling both text generation and text analysis tasks such as summarization, classification and recognition of named entities such as locations or substances.  Additionally, LLMs play a growing role in science communication, supporting interactive data exploration (e.g., EcoToxFred) and facilitating the science-policy interface by generating context-aware and audience-tailored content.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

• Fostering networking and knowledge exchange on the application of LLMs in Environmental Research.
• Mapping current and planned LLM applications at UFZ.
• Setting topics for future UFZ Research, e.g. PhD Cohorts.
• Initiative for a review/policy paper on the status, gaps and urgent needs in the field of monitoring, understanding and minimizing chemical pollution in the “One world”.

Call for Posters / Call for Abstracts

• we encourage the participants to submit a poster describing their actual LLM-related research
• the call includes poster and a flash talk that will be held during the event

Survey for LLMs in Environmental Research

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome

09:15 → 10:00 Keynote

10:00 → 11:00 Talks: Highlights

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 11:45 Overview on Helmholtz Initiatives

11:45 → 12:30 Quality Control and Reproducibility

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break and Poster Session

14:00 → 15:45 Discussions: Risks, Limitations, Support, Future

15:45 → 16:00 Closing