Matej Hejda

I plead for a design turn within the social sciences, in order to foster the renewal of empirical methods from an analytical towards a co-productive synthetic approach of knowledge production.

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Sunil Amrith, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Social Sciences and Humanities. He talked about his work as a historian of South and Southeast Asia, his appeal…

PRESENTED BY James Nguyen NOMINATED BY The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) Tags: Quantum Security, Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Computing, Quantum Communication, Cyber Security

Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University, and Founding Director of Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment. She is a leading international expert on gender in science and technology and has addressed the United Nations, European Parliament, and…

How Astronomy Explores the Past, Present and Future of the Universe The universe is a mysterious place – we know it is some 13.8 billion years old with the part we can observe being about 90 billion light years in diameter, which means that the most distant edges we can…

CIFAR takes a long-term view to support leading-edge internationally collaborative research for global impact. CIFAR brings together outstanding researchers from across disciplines and borders to identify and address some of the world’s most intractable challenges. CIFAR believes research focused on critical issues that leverages the best scholars, without being constrained…

The nominating institution University of Helsinki on the breakthrough: Ovaskainen and Abrego have developed a Hierarchical Modelling of Species Communities (HMSC) framework, which revolutionizes how data on ecological communities is analysed and interpreted. HMSC allows data integration on species abundances, environmental covariates, species traits, phylogenetic relationships, and the spatio-temporal context. …

Nominated by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Presented by: Joshua Yang

Forced by the sudden lockdown of their physical campuses in Botswana, Lesotho, eSwatini and Namibia, Botho university went into a partnership with the internet service providers to white list and zero rate their learning management system Blackboard which allowed students uninterrupted access to the learning content 24 hours. Through their…

Libor Šmejkal: Breaking the Wall to Quantum Magnets – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Before the discovery of altermagnets, researchers studied ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Ferromagnets are commonly used but suffer energy loss due to resistance when electricity passes through them. Antiferromagnets, where magnetic moments cancel out, also experience energy losses…