Ambrish Kumar

Nominated by: JST – Japan Science and Technology Agency Presented by: Amane Kimura

Yara Marei’s project, Z-Enviroil, addresses the critical issue of oil spills, offering a comprehensive solution that not only instantly retrieves spills on both wet and dry surfaces but also aids companies in overcoming economic crises associated with fines, health rehabilitation, and tanker repairs. The innovative technology ensures the efficient recovery…

Matej Badin’s method can quantify the metastability of emerging phases induced by pressure, thus opening the route towards the synthesis of materials hosting exotic properties by means of pressure quenching.

Our transport system needs to be transformed due to its devastating effects on the environment and the climate. But this change needs to be discussed also within its wider social repercussions. Fiscal instruments and targeted policies can contribute to a mobility transformation that not only addresses the ecological challenges but…

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.

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…

PRESENTED BY Tejas Kusurkar NOMINATED BY Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Tags: Battery Technology, Zinc

Paulius Viskaitis is addressing the limitations in stroke rehabilitation by developing SmartVNS, an automated neurostimulation tool. SmartVNS activates the auricular Vagus nerve with small electric pulses, enhancing recovery by reorganising the brain, and it is specifically triggered when desired movement patterns are detected through a smartwatch worn on the affected…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Londa Schiebinger, 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.…

Serena Parekh is a Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. She is the author of three books, including her most recent book, No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis (Oxford 2020), which won the North American…