Alex Kacelnik

The innovation is the paradigm shift from conventional thought of content or knowledge transfer in higher education to designing learning from the mobile student experience. To do this, we had to reimagine the learning experience from a mobile student lens. We reimagined learning and learning design from a mobile learning…

We have developed a novel therapeutic for SARS-CoV-2 that relies on nanobodies – antibody fragments from alpacas and llamas. Combining protein engineering, structural biology, and virology, we found that multi-component molecules binding the virus on two surfaces lead to robust neutralization of wildtype virus and newly emerging variants. Unlike most…

Training Scientists for the Future – Is the PhD still up to date? – Falling Walls Circle Round Table 2023 The PhD is the foundation of the academic enterprise, the first piece of original work done by a researcher. With the significant changes seen within science and the expectations broader…

Carmen Noëlie Abla Eklou-Adegnoh suggests setting up well-equipped, solar-powered computer labs in rural areas from recycled containers. This way, students will receive ICT-relevant training to help their education and develop good ICT skills.

HOW PEER-TO-PEER WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS ARE REPLACING CENTRALISED CONNECTIVITY On 28 January 2011 the Egyptian government, after three days of massive anti-regime protests, mostly organized through social networks, switched off 93 percent of the nation’s Internet. The top-down vulnerability issue of the web was obvious: most individual users are connected…

CRISPR-Cas9 is best known for genome editing, yet it derives from immune systems in bacteria. We discovered that the RNAs that guide DNA cutting by Cas9 can come from other RNAs in the cell. We learned how to dictate which RNAs become guide RNAs, thereby allowing us to connect an…

Serena Parekh is a Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book, No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (Oxford 2020), which won the North American…

The nominating institution Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin on the breakthrough: Open Innovation (OI) offers a different way of doing research to address urgent global challenges. We developed an unique training strategy that empowers early-stage researchers to apply OI concepts into their projects. To embed our training into Berlin’s neuroscience…

By capitalizing on low-cost local wool produced by herders, Oyungerel Munkhbat is able to produce affordable air purification filters as efficient as the HEPA filter, preventing air pollution-related diseases.

For refugees around the world, the options to earn an income are often severely limited. Without a work permit, they are often stuck in limbo, displaced and with little money to spare. Yet they have innate talents within them in the form of their language, their story and culture. Aline…