NATURE FIRST PUBLICATION - PAPER ON DIGITAL TWINS

We are proud to announce that the first Nature FIRST paper has been published.

"Digital twins: dynamic model-data fusion for ecology", is a paper written by Dr. Koen de Koning and his team at Wageningen University & Research. In this paper, the authors recognise that digital twins are an emerging phenomenon in the public and private sectors as a new tool to monitor and understand systems and processes. Digital twins have the potential to change the status quo in ecology as part of its digital transformation. However, the authors also highlight that it is important to avoid misguided developments by managing expectations about digital twins. They stress that digital twins are not just big models of everything, containing big data and machine learning. Rather, the strength of digital twins is in combining data, models, and domain knowledge, and their continuous alignment with the real world. The paper suggests that researchers and stakeholders exercise caution in digital twin development, keeping in mind that many of the strengths and challenges of computational modelling in ecology also apply to digital twins.

You can find the paper in our Resources section, together with other interesting materials! If you have never heard of Digital Twins and would like to find out more before diving into the paper, you can read also this interview with Koen de Koning.