Iuliia Kuznetsova

While nature builds all her organic materials from CO₂, the stability and inertness of the CO₂ molecule prevents its use in chemical technology. The team of Leitner searches for catalysts as molecular tools to break through this wall. Together with the company Covestro, they developed a catalytic process to incorporate…

Nominated by: Thomas Ribeiro, CNRS Innovation Presented by: Thomas Hiriart

How Economic Growth in India Shows the Way for Other Developing Countries Jagdish Bhagwati’s influence on the international economic debate is huge. He is known both for his directing and advisory roles in organisations such as GATT, UN, WTO, and for his provocative publications which include the 2004 worldwide success…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Anthony Hyman, winner of the Körber European Science Prize 2022. He talked about his research on the role of phase separation in the formation of biological compartments and how it can help…

This Winners Session features the Top 10 breakthroughs in the Social Sciences and Humanities category. Learn about societal philosophy and other philosophical approaches to understand our current society: from living in a society of singularities to providing a new ethical and philosophical framework for the 21st century, from a cultural…

Mazhar Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Quantum Nanoscience of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at TU Delft (Delft University of Technology) and is also part of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft (KIND). He did his Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Chemistry at UC Berkeley,…

With his pitch, Niklas Wendel proposes a solution the the space debris problem: A technology which uses forces from the natural environment to remove debris from orbit and is cost-effective enough to be scaled to the size of the challenge.

By telling stories of women affected by the Zika epidemic, Debora Diniz has shown how the lack of a gender perspective in health emergency response leads to growing gender-based violence, loss of livelihoods, excessive unpaid care work and adverse mental, sexual and reproductive health outcomes for women and girls. As…

This project seeks to reveal the nature of graffiti prohibition as content-based speech regulation. It will unearth the practice of favoring messages conforming to prevailing narratives and aesthetic standards. This research is very timely given the role of graffiti in the recent “Black Lives Matter” uprisings. The authors’ groundbreaking proposal…

Uniteca is an online education system and digital library that helps students to achieve academic success. What makes it innovative is the fact that it is an app where it is possible to find several explainers available to give an explanation on a given subject, also giving the benefit of…