Artashes Balabekyan

Nominated by: Thane Campbell, Deep Science Ventures Presented by: Samuel Cryer

The nominating institution CISPA on the breakthrough: The mission: Build a Corona Warn App that warns users if they have been near an infected person. How to do this while protecting anonymity? Based on our work with DP-3T, the privacy-preserving exposure tracing protocol that makes the scientific foundation for the…

Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Deme is producing biochar for removing a wide range of mineral and organic pollutants from wastewater responsible for pollution before discharge.

The nominating institution University of Manitoba on the breakthrough: Environmental DNA is a non-invasive way to sample organisms. It’s revolutionizing biodiversity monitoring in the Canadian Arctic. The Stetefeld lab, in partnership with the Kivalliq Inuit Association, extracts eDNA from environmental samples without having to isolate the target organisms. Tags: Artificial…

Prof. Marc Gruber is a leading researcher, focused on bringing new technology to market. He significantly advanced the practice of innovation with the Market Opportunity Navigator (co-developed with his PhD student Sharon Tal) – which helps in the highly critical phase of identifying the best markets for new technology. Launched…

Eeva Luhtakallio is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. She specializes in political and visual sociology, social theory, and methodology. Her research focuses on democracy and citizenship as mundane practices by studying activism, young people’s political engagements, and political marginalization. Luhtakallio leads the Centre for Sociology of Democracy…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Joachim von Braun. He talked about his work as an agricultural economist, ways of tackling global hunger and the impact of climate change on global food security. The interview series provided an…

My artistic processes have led me to recognize myself and all – symbolically – as a drop, as a center, as the very particle with which the universe has been created. It has been a constant exercise, a path of recollection and expansion. My trips as I usually call them,…

PRESENTED BY Christian Aljoscha Lukas NOMINATED BY Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg Tags: Mental Health, Evidence Based

C-DELTA is a breakthrough in creating a platform for large scale training on digital education for students and teachers around the world for free. It is about how to make digital learning more efficient for individuals and the society by recognising digital identity and footprints online, creating and sharing digital…