Akiko Iwasaki

Gunjan Chauhan is addressing the challenges faced by crime scene investigators by developing a portable device for comparing evidence, such as fingerprints and questioned documents, directly at the crime scene. This innovative tool aims to save time and resources for forensic professionals, offering a convenient and efficient solution for on-site…

Nominated by: Shane West, Aleap Presented by: Saeid Hosseini

Nominated by: Ruhr-Universität Bochum Presented by: Alexander Kanitz

Stannie Rameliarison and her team teach fruit and vegetable producers how to dry their crops in order to store them longer and provide them with solar dryers and a market where they can sell the dried products.

Future of Forests – Dramatic Impacts of Climate Change Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. In this Falling Walls Circle Table,…

“Heroes of the planet” is a project consisting of educational content to teach kids of 9 to 12 years old about Climate Change. The course consists of animated videos telling stories with a main character (a child named Maywa) and the classical elements (earth, fire, water, wind) as secondary characters…

The nominating institution Austrian Academy of Sciences on the breakthrough: Cachexia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in various cancers, chronic inflammation and infections. But our understanding of it is limited, especially infection-associated cachexia (IAC). In the present paper, Bergthaler and his colleagues describe a model of reversible…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Frank Niederländer, digital participants had the chance to discuss and ask questions. The interview series provided an intense personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 focused on their individual research, career paths and experiences.…

Presented by: Dana Kralisch JeNaCell produces pads made of nanocellulose for the after-treatment of dermal injuries and for dermatological treatments. These pads are completely sterile, have a unique high water level and offer a constant cooling. Based on biotechnologically derived cellulose, the pads are skin-friendly and soft, can be peeled…

Andrea Fischer and colleagues present the first dating of glacier ice using less than 2 mL STP of argon from ∼5 kg of ice, finally opening the door for radioargon dating in glaciology. Alpine summit glaciers have a characteristic age range between 100 and 1,000 years. Reliable dating is the…