Kerstin Denecke holds a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science from the Technical University of Braunschweig. She is Professor of Medical Informatics at the Bern University of Applied Sciences and Co-Director of the Institute for Patient-Centered Digital Health. Her research interests include natural language processing, artificial intelligence, conversational agents, participatory health informatics, sentiment analysis and text classification. She is a member of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), and co-chair of the IMIA Working Group Participatory Health and Social Media.