On May 19, 2026, the pre-conference workshop “MEmilio Workshop on Multiscale Infectious Disease Modeling” took place. It was organized by the MEmilio team of the German Aerospace Center (DLR ) and the University of Bonn and took place at the Georg-Forster-Haus, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale).
The workshop was user-oriented and provided a platform for multi-scale modeling of infectious diseases using MEmilio. MEmilio is a powerful modeling framework that provides a variety of dynamic models for simulating infectious diseases, including population and metapopulation models, hybrid models and agent-based models. Spatially resolved, AI-based surrogate models are also integrated. MEmilio had already implemented numerous models during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a new model generation function has now been released. The MEmilio model generator enables the creation of efficient models of any size, implemented in C++ and executable via a user-friendly Python frontend. All you need to do is enter simple text descriptions of the model, consisting of a list of compartments, transitions between the compartments and parameters. The documentation of the model generator can be found here.
The workshop materials can be found here, the tutorials and exercises here.