Genoveva Marti

For a variety of reasons ranging from our heightened awareness of climate change and concerns for our health to an increased sensitivity to animal welfare issues, the popularity of alternatives to meat has been gaining unprecedented momentum in recent years. Mark Post, who trained as a medical doctor and is…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Marcus Mall, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Life Sciences. He talked about his role as chair of the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical…

The BLCKB Brain Dictionary project is an AI Model that is using neuromarketing data to reconstruct what subjects perceive based on their brain activity captured by EEG.   Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Bio-Tech, Neuroscience.

Gendered Innovation and Multinational Corporations Julia Duwe, partner at Roland Berger, and Simone Menne, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, join Ruth Morgan in sharing their insights on the impact of the pandemic on gender equality and what they consider to be the key to innovation in…

An environmentally friendly chemical compound used as a high-quality shield in X-ray attenuation. The chemical compound is characterized by its flexibility and ease of formation. Tags: Bio-Tech, Circular Economy, Digital Health, Engineering, Environment & Nature, Future /green cities, New Work, Trust in science.

Roberto Osellame graduated at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He is a Research Director at the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Politecnico…

In the 1930s, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a “New Deal” policy to overcome the Great Depression. Less than 100 years later, the world is facing an even more global challenge: the climate crisis. In this Falling Walls Plenary Table, our international panelists ask whether this requires an equally…

Anfal Al Busaidi is addressing the inefficiency of solar cells in absorbing light by proposing the design of spectrally tunable transparent conducting electrodes (TCEs) for both the front and back of solar cells. The goal is to reflect absorbable light back towards the semiconductor and transmit non-usable radiation out, enhancing…

What are black holes? Where do they lead and are they a threat? Questions such as these have captivated the imaginations of scientists and the public for decades. Up until recently, only simulations and illustrations could help to envisage what black holes might look like – which is why the…

HOW TOKAMAK RESEARCH IS PAVING THE WAY FOR SUCCESSFUL FUSION ENERGY REACTORS Following the dream of fusion power, which would provide humanity with the same abundant energy as produced by the sun, scientific research is focusing on creating and controlling high-temperature, burning plasma, as it exists in stars, using deuterium,…