Andreas Schmitt

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious”, Albert Einstein said. “It is the source of true art and science.” In her project, the internationally renowned photographer Herlinde Koelbl places the main focus on this playfulness, the amazement which is driving every researcher: A formula, a philosophy, a…

Nominated by: Thomas Montenegro-Johnson, University of Birmingham Presented by: John Terry

The nominating institution The OutCast Agency on the breakthrough: Ada combines future-proof technology with front-line medical research to advance knowledge and improve outcomes. Andreas led the rapid development of Ada’s COVID-19 assessment and screener, a free digital tool to help people identify and understand COVID-19 symptoms and guide them on…

Stefan Ulmer is a chief scientist at RIKEN, a Professor at Düsseldorf, and Founder/ Spokesperson of CERN’s BASE collaboration. Using newly invented Penning trap methods, BASE also reported on the most precise measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment with a fractional precision of 1.5 p.p.b. Together with an 11-fold improved proton…

Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, He is the author of four books, including Unruly Waters (2018) and Crossing the Bay of Bengal (2013). His work connects environmental history with the history of migration, with a focus on South Asia, Southeast Asia,…

The Global Education Movement (GEM) provides learners affected by conflict and economic disinvestment the opportunity to earn accredited bachelor’s degrees and pathways to meaningful employment. With a curriculum focused on building marketable skills for 21st century employment, GEM is unlocking the potential of a new generation of leaders that can…

Our new detector records the full position-momentum phase space for all electrons scattered through a sample, and ptychographic reconstruction algorithms solve the samples atomic structure. Our algorithms inversely solve for the multiple scattering of the electron beam and overcome the lens aberrations. For the first time, the resolution is set…

Digitalisation reduces carbon emissions to a great extent in many sectors and therefore helps to protect the environment. Simultaneously, the increasing use of digital technologies requires an immense amount of energy. To promote a resource-efficient economy, we need to consider energy efficiency and sustainability as core elements – not only…

PRESENTED BY Ömer Faruk KOÇ NOMINATED BY Marmara University Innovation and Technology Transfer Research and Application Center (MITTO) Tags: Ag Tech, Automatic Steering

Despite over 40 years of research there is currently no commercially viable treatment for bio- and mixed plastic waste at scale. Burning them requires expensive exhaust-gas clean-up (e.g. dioxins) and frequent reactor maintenance (toxic slag build-up). Cat-HTR™ changes this completely: it continuously generates and distils stable end-products, yielding from mixed…