Miléna Salci

The nominating institution TU Munich on the breakthrough: Reconstructing our 3D world from moving cameras is at the heart of computer vision. It fuels endless applications ranging from augmented reality and computer animation over 3D perception for self-driving cars to digital heritage and medical imaging. Daniel Cremers made groundbreaking advances…

We are building an AI Researcher to help us leverage our exponentially growing scientific knowledge. Iris.ai is an almost 6-year-old European startup, founded with a double bottom line – for profit and for positive global impact. We want every scientist and innovator in the world to have all knowledge they…

The nominating institution Empa about the breakthrough: Controlling the spread of COVID-19 is an urgent global challenge. Airborne respiratory droplets play a significant role in human-to-human transmission. Jing’s group quantifies the infection risk of COVID-19 by various transmission routes. He then develops highly accurate sensors for fast detection in the…

Nominated by: Keith Nugent, Australian National University Presented by: Vanessa Vongsouthi

The first phase of this project is to recycle the liquid cassava waste and collect the sugar waste from the sugar factory. The second phase will be to produce Bioethanol.

The nominating institution AIT on the breakthrough: The presented bi-modal sensing device allows for the first time simultanously to distinguish between mass-uptake and electrical surface changes at biological binding events. Until now, antibody and antigen interactions and the docking of bacteria or virus to tissue in the human body was…

Aimed at children and adolescents, it addresses the issues of volcanoes: formation, eruptions and influence of them in our cultures. It uses augmented reality, virtual reality, scenography, models, and the mediation of a team of young geologists that guided small groups (5p) through informative and interactive panels until reaching a…

How the Digital Humanities Help Us Think About the Past to Invent the Future The digital technologies of our times have revolutionised not just the way we live and work in the present, they also change our understanding of the past. Today’s archaeologists are equipped with gene sequencers and 3D…

Nominated by: Lotta Lehikoinen, Chalmers Ventures Presented by: Johannes Henriksson

Tech for High School Initiative is providing Internet Computer Technology infrastructures to high schools teaching students and teachers computer skills prior to taking a project-based approach in having students utilize their skills in solving complex problems in Liberia. Introduce a new ICT curriculum to teach students 21st-century skills such as…