André Loesekrug-Pietri

PRESENTED BY John Beane NOMINATED BY University of California, San Diego Tags: High Performance Computing, Optimization, SaaS, Data Analysis

An estimated 2 billion people consume insects worldwide, and yet the appeal – and commercial availability – of this foodstock remains very limited, especially in the West. With more than 2,000 edible insect species on this planet, packed with high-quality protein, amino acids, vitamins, calcium, zinc, iron, oils, antioxidants and…

At Kvark Science Show, science meets entertainment and collaborates to create an event never before seen in Europe. The main goal of the show was branding knowledge as a superpower thus making STEAM more interesting and intriguing to students, children, and adults. During the show, two performers displayed and explained…

BrainReach is an outreach programme that provides free bilingual neuroscience education to students in underserved neighborhoods in Montreal and remote indigenous communities of Quebec. Volunteers visit the same classroom every month to deliver interactive workshops. The mission of BrainReach is to educate school students on how their brains function, reduce…

Yizhou Yu addresses the lack of personalised treatments for Alzheimer’s disease by investigating genetic, cellular, and population-level aspects. He combined laboratory techniques and machine learning to identify a novel pathway, leading to the development of probiotic bacteria that delay neuron death in animal models, offering a potential solution for Alzheimer’s…

Emily Hsue-Chi Shi is addressing the inefficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) commonly used in smartphone screens, focusing on the limitations posed by the non-emitting “dark” triplet state. Her solution involves designing molecules with a reduced singlet-triplet gap, facilitating thermal activation of electrons and maximising OLED efficiency for improved electroluminescence…

The ScienceAtHome project brings together researchers from all branches of natural science with social and cognitive scientists and hundreds of thousands of volunteers to create an online laboratory for human problem solving and collaboration. Exploring both the efficiency of citizen scientists on complex challenges and novel ways of involving them…

For millennia, humanity has pondered the origins of our universe. It was only a few decades ago that new inventions in the realm of space science, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided faint, yet valuable insights into this origin story. This year, its successor, the James Webb Space…

PRESENTED BY Martin Bothe NOMINATED BY Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Tags: Surgical Gloves, Examination Gloves, Protection, Surgery, Material Science, Healthcare Workers, Medical Device

DROBEE offers a service of date palm pollination using autonomous drones that can automatically pollinate palms 100 times faster than the manual method in a secure way, reducing the cost by up to 50% and saving pollen usage.