These are the winners of the first edition of the Falling Walls Lab, that took place on 8 November 2011, the day before the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin, and was organised by the Falling Walls Foundation with the support of AT Kearney. A showcase of 100 breakthroughs in 3 minutes each from young innovators. See the best of the online conversation on the Lab edited by our guest blogger Beatrice Lugger.
1. Place & Audience Award (1000 Euro and iPad 2)
Dr. Shuo Zhang
Germany
Nationality: China
Breaking the Wall of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
(Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut), Göttingen
2. Place (750 Euro)
Tom Bieling
Germany
Nationality: Germany
Breaking the Wall of Misinterpreting Dis/ability
University of the Arts, Berlin
3. Place (500 Euro)
Eileen Diskin
Ireland
Nationality: USA
Breaking the Wall of Antibiotic Resistance
Trinity College Dublin
4. Place (500 Euro)
Jennifer Jordan
Netherlands
Nationality: USA
Breaking the Wall of Moral Psychology
University of Groningen
Winner of the Jury Prize and the Audience Award Dr. Shuo Zhang, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen during his presentation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Tom Bieling, Berlin University of the Arts, won second place.
Engaged in conversation: The chairmen of the Jury Ernst Th. Rietschel and Martin Sonnenschein.
Sebastian Turner, Founder of the Falling Walls Foundation welcomes the 100 scholars.
The Jury assigned a breakthrough factor to every presentation.
Eileen Diskin, Trinity College Dublin, winner of the third place during her presentation.
Scholars discussing in the lecture hall.
Jennifer Jordan, University of Groningen, winner of the fourth place listening to her fellow scholars.
The scholars took the opportunity to exchange their ideas.
The 100 scholars with the Jury and its Chairmen.
Photos: Falling Walls Foundation/Kay Herschelmann Copyright
