Alessandro Curioni

I work on many projects that address digital science education, particularly working with overlooked communities. I work primarily in various classrooms around the world, designing, building, testing, and researching adaptive and interactive science pedagogies, particularly ones that contain a digital component. This had led to many innovations in digital science…

PRESENTED BY Ashutosh Singh NOMINATED BY University of Calgary Tags: Graphene

Incubators and accelerators are a great way to support early stage startups (and often also first time founders) through education programs, matchmaking, mentorship and financing. With the overwhelming success of programs like Y-Combinator, we saw a surge in programs that are helping founders succeed with their startups. We are discussing…

Neuroprosthetics: How electronics can be used to mimic the biology in our brain The human brain is made up of anything between 80 and 100 billion neurons. How exactly these basic working units communicate with each other and transmit information through electrical impulses at the synapses, is a crucial matter…

Due to factors such as ageing populations, increasing comorbidities and late or erroneous diagnoses, millions of people globally are impacted (with an upward tendency) by illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease and Depression. While prevention and early diagnosis are crucial to improving the wellbeing of patients, new medications and therapies need…

Difu Simo is an engagement project in Kilifi, Kenya, which aims to promote dialogue among communities about mental health, to raise awareness and reduce associated stigma. The project has implemented massive mental health engagement campaigns combining expertise of collaborators in health research, film, local culture, and community members. Difu Simo’s…

Nominated by: Technische Universität Berlin Presented by: Dr. Lutz Kloke

PRESENTED BY Pierre Le Blainvaux NOMINATED BY Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Tags: Ecological Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Biosorption, Biomass, Eco-catalysts

Claudia Siesquén Deza is creating awareness about a low cost technology to preserve food: evaporative cooling. Her product, CoolK Refri, is a fridge made of clay that works without electricity.

Pei Leng Tan is addressing the challenges of skin autografting in managing large burn wounds by proposing a solution involving the delivery of high-density proliferative skin cells encapsulated in biodegradable core-shell microspheres. This innovative approach supports cell proliferation, and upon release at the wound site, the cells expand into epidermal-dermal…