Breadcrumb Home Activities Lab Falling Walls Lab Jury 2026 Professor Alice Aiken Dalhousie University 1st Place Emerging Talents Breakthrough of the Year 2026 Karen de la Vega-Hernández Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) Professor Barbara Ischinger University of Cologne Professor of Physics Young-Kee Kim The University of Chicago Kathrin Kohs German Research Foundation (DFG) Jury Chair Wolfgang Marquardt RWTH Aachen University Céline Nauer Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit Ursula Paintner German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Head of Business Development Sven Wagner Sartorius
1st Place Emerging Talents Breakthrough of the Year 2026 Karen de la Vega-Hernández Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)