Johannes Vogel

PRESENTED BY Robert Brüll NOMINATED BY RWTH Aachen University Tags: Composites, Glass Fibre

Matthias Tschöp: Breaking the Wall of Obesity – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Overweight individuals face an increased risk of developing various diseases, with diabetes being a prominent concern. Diabetes, both Type 1 and Type 2, can lead to serious complications such as heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, and nerve…

Many scholars have understood that the liberal (international) order is under stress inside and outside the “liberal core.” However, most take the state in its Weberian form for granted. Areas of limited statehood are ubiquituous and it is the combination of limited statehood and order contestations which characterizes the contemporary…

Discover the world of chemistry at home: Our digital chemistry workshops offer students of 10-18 years the chance to experiment with non-toxic chemicals in a safe environment. Under the guidance of chemistry students, their home is transformed into a laboratory. The participants assume the role of a chemist and are…

Nominated by: Oxford University Hospital Presented by: Fouad Noor

Biotech Innovation in Europe and Germany Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. How could Europe create a global ‘hotspot’ of biotech…

Under current assumptions we are slowly entering a period of major biodiversity loss with threats to the planet that are severe but difficult to perceive. The effects of human actions on the Earth’s ecosystem are well documented, but what if the scale and pace of species extinction and its consequences…

As in countless other areas, the diversity, frequency, and scale of human activity are having devastating effects on our oceans and their ecosystem. Whilst overfishing, pollution, and climate change are severely damaging to coral reefs around the world, we remain largely ignorant of – or blind to – the importance…

He is an antibiotics researcher who not only promises new antibiotics, but also to make existing antibiotics more efficient. The potential should be peer reviewed. Not particularly novel in its methods, all the big ones use ‘AI’ to find new molecules. Standard problems of antimicrobiotical research apply to his team…

As a scientist, getting a research grant often feels like an odyssey. It involves a lot of red tape and can take years to be approved. While it is a nuisance to all researchers, the process is especially frustrating for environmental scientists, who rely on grants to perform their research…