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Mazhar Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Quantum Nanoscience of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at TU Delft (Delft University of Technology) and is also part of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft (KIND). He did his Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Chemistry at UC Berkeley,…

Prof. Dr. med. Tobias Moser is a neuroscientist and otolaryngologist at the Göttingen Campus in Germany. He heads the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen and leads research groups at the German Primate Center and the Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. His main areas of research are…

Prof. Ting Xu received Ph.D in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2004 and postdoc training at the University of Pennsylvania and NIST. She jointed University of California, Berkeley in 2007 in the Department of Material Sciences and Engineering and Department of Chemistry. Her research…

Randall Platt is an Associate Professor of Biological Engineering at the ETH Zurich. Platt studied biomedical engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. In 2011 he obtained an MPhil from Imperial College London in material science and in 2016 a PhD from MIT in biological engineering. After…

Mental Health: Do we Need a New Super Science? 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. While stigma around mental health may…

An environmentally friendly chemical compound used as a high-quality shield in X-ray attenuation. The chemical compound is characterized by its flexibility and ease of formation. Tags: Bio-Tech, Circular Economy, Digital Health, Engineering, Environment & Nature, Future /green cities, New Work, Trust in science.

Blanca Costa Ávila addresses the problem of respiratory distress due to fibrosis and stenosis of the airways produced by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She suggests that implanting a bronchial splint solves airway stenosis and improves pulmonary ventilation.

PRESENTED BY Mauro Muraro NOMINATED BY KNAW (The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Tags: Single Cell Sequencing, RNA Sequencing

Trishla Sinha is investigating the impact of early life exposures, particularly the gut microbiome, on the later onset of diseases such as allergies, asthma, and obesity. Her solution involves studying 1500 mother-infant pairs, considering genetics, immune system, and environment, to develop novel preventive measures, including personalised nutrition, to modulate the…

Ayushi Chauhan aims to create a new generation of portable devices for the rapid detection of point mutations responsible for DR-TB. The assay is accessible, scalable, and suitable for high burden TB countries.