Nicholas Edwards

Nominated by: Pierluigi Freni, LIFTT Presented by: Giuseppe Antonacci

The nominating institution CISPA on the breakthrough: The mission: Build a Corona Warn App that warns users if they have been near an infected person. How to do this while protecting anonymity? Based on our work with DP-3T, the privacy-preserving exposure tracing protocol that makes the scientific foundation for the…

The Tactile Universe is an outreach project at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation. We are developing accessible teaching resources and workshops to make current topics in astrophysics, traditionally a visual science, accessible to young people with vision impairments. By running training workshops for science communicators across…

Nikita Sud is Professor of the Politics of Development at the University of Oxford. She is Governing Body Fellow and Vicegerent of Wolfson College, and a faculty member of the Oxford Department of International Development. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, educated at the Universities of Delhi and Oxford. Nikita’s research…

The project consists in classifying mineral samples kept by families by sharing photos of the samples with chartered geologists, while maximizing the visibility of places and people involved in the process. In order to facilitate this activity, we propose music as a background element. Music is provided either in the…

Aleksey Makarov’s project aims to develop various size replaceable ventilation-installed bioreactors. The bigger ones are meant to be applied in malls, apartment or office buildings, the smaller ones – in a house.

Ashwin Charles of Malaysia was awarded the second place for his new and low-cost method of breaking down the pollutants resulting from palm oil production by using solar power.

STEM professionals solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges, build better systems, and enable us to understand the world we live in. But who gets to become a STEM professional? Well, not just anybody. Rural and remote communities in India rarely get to do any hands-on science, making a STEM career…