Frida Kersten

The nominating institution Ginkgo Bioworks on the breakthrough: To design a world without waste, Design by Decay designs waste intentionally. It proposes biological decay as a fabrication process, using enzymes and microbes to decompose and compose biological matter at the same time. By mediating decay through species selection, environmental conditions,…

Atmospheric non-thermal plasma is an advanced oxidation process for the treatment of contaminated water without using an additional environmentally hazardous chemical agent (e.g chlorine).   Tags: Engineering, Environment & Nature.

Nikhil Kunati suggests converting CO2 from industrial flue gasses to graphene for application in concrete. This results in effective CO2 storage and increasing the strength of concrete, while reducing costs and material consumption.

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How Ultracold Atomic Physics is Creating Fundamentally New Materials Physics has a long track record of discovering and studying new forms of matter. Apart from the four states of matter traditionally taught in Physics class – solid, liquid, gas and plasma – there is a whole range of other, more exotic states…

Donna Strickland is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification-which is the current state-of-the-art technique used by most of the highest-power lasers in the world. In her talk, Strickland was talking about the relevance of lasers, the relationship between light and…

Clara Jiang explores whether statins (widely used lipid-lowering drugs) can be repurposed for treating depression by comparing the gene expression changes induced by statins and antidepressants in human cells.

Launched during the summer 2019 as a NGO based in Paris, Just One Giant Lab (JOGL.io) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation online platform for collaborative task solving. At JOGL, we believe in the power of open-source community-led approaches to address…

Ayushi Chauhan aims to create a new generation of portable devices for the rapid detection of point mutations responsible for DR-TB. The assay is accessible, scalable, and suitable for high burden TB countries.

Much of the world’s energy demands continue to depend on fossil fuels. However, mounting environmental concerns and decarbonisation efforts have propelled the development of sustainable processes to produce chemicals, fuels and materials from renewable biological resources. Biotechnology has been making strides and could soon help address a range of global…