Professor Heiko Balzter

University of Leicester

Heiko Balzter is Director of the Institute for Environmental Futures at the University of Leicester and leads the UKRI Landscape Decisions SPF Programme. He pioneered an award-winning forest alert system from space that is being used in Kenya to reduce illegal logging. He is PI on the grant “Self-learning digital twins for sustainable land management” (AI for net zero, £2.5M) and received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and other accolades.

In July 2024 Heiko was named as one of the top 50 UK innovators for net zero: https://www.netzero50.uk/meet-the-list-2024.