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In cooperation with the VolkswagenStiftung and WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Falling Walls was hosting this unique format to connect researchers in the social sciences and humanities from all over the world. The symposium gathered the 2021 Winners in the Social Sciences and Humanities category as well as partners from…

PRESENTED BY Max Gulde NOMINATED BY Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. Tags: Smart Farming, Space Tech, Earth Observation, Ag Tech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, New Space, Precision Farming, Food Security

BIOLILOLAB is a lab focused on projects on prototyping and deprototyping biomaterials in the liquid, solid and gaseous states. In a short way, an autonomous lab guided by the experiment. BIOLILOLAB is a small independent lab with a fridge, incubators, spectrophotometer and the basic glassware necessary for biology experiments. BIOLILOLAB…

Tatjana Geukens will set up a program for metastatic breast cancer patients to donate liquid and tissue samples rapidly after death for extensive molecular profiling and the generation of tumour models.

Xena Serifova is addressing the challenge in psychiatry, specifically in the diagnosis of OCD, where biomarkers are lacking validity and specificity. Her solution involves innovative approaches, including symptom provocation techniques and multimodal assessment measures, to objectively quantify OCD-related symptoms and develop a reliable biomarker for the disorder.

How Microbiome Research Redefines Our Idea of Being Human For the better part of the 20th century, we could be rather sure that being human meant that our bodies are made up of our own human cells, controlled by our own DNA, while our autonomous brains give rise to emotions and…

FOREST is the performative outcome of a National Science Foundation funded project aimed at enhancing trust between humans and robots through sound and gesture. As part of the project, Gil Weinberg and his team trained a deep learning network to generate emotion carrying sounds to accompany robotic gestures during human-robot…

Ankita is working on nano-fiber filters that efficiently remove particles and enable good flow with the help of surface coating technology. These two functions are mutually exclusive in conventional filters.

Tonico Deodato’s project investigates the influence of social motivation on the social impairments present in children with ASD through observation of their helping and cooperative behavioural tendencies.

Integrating Ethics and Public Engagement into Scientific Discovery – Falling Walls Circle Round Table 2023 As we seek groundbreaking science to benefit humanity while minimizing risks, the need for interdisciplinary scientific collaboration and public engagement is increasingly important. The participants of this session will discuss how to break the walls…