Barbara Milow

To break the Wall of affordable clean energy for all, materials are the key. Up to 80% of the cost of an energy solution is due to its constituent materials and can take 20 years to reach commercialization. MAPs are a multidisciplinary technology built on robotics, high performance computing, and…

Computer-Generated Decision Making: How new drug candidates can be identified faster through automated molecular design The discovery of new drugs and their development as medicines is a long, arduous, costly, and to some extent serendipitous process. Up to 90% of drug candidates fail during clinical development because they lack efficacy…

Nominated by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Presented by: Joshua Yang

Marcel Kempers partners with local coastal businesses to collect and apply data-to-decisions (for coral nursery planning, etc.) and with marine research organisations to advocate for participatory science.

Science in dance’ is a 60′ long format designed to promote science-people interaction through dance. The audience is introduced by a storyteller to the science underlying the dance. The choreographer starts the casting randomly picking-up performers from the public; then she/he teaches them easy-to-learn movements and set up basic scenography…

Vaishnavi Rathi is revolutionising education by developing an AI-driven platform that leverages the Protégé Effect, encouraging users to teach AI students and significantly boosting engagement and knowledge retention. This interactive, feedback-driven learning approach aims to overcome the limitations of conventional education methods, where students typically retain only 10-20% of lecture-based…

The nominating institution Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung on the breakthrough: Dr. Rapp pushed boundaries in glass production since he is able to print glass. This disruptive innovation in glass processing has more than one astonishing advantage, such as low production cost, scales up to mass manufacturing with existing machines…

The nominating institute Technische Universität Braunschweig on the project: Vaccines cannot cure COVID-19. We need an additional medication to cure the infected, and protect the risk populations that are expected to respond to vaccination with success rates far below 100%. This can be achieved by using human antibodies, exactly the…

Finding out how digital technology affects is difficult, because it requires accessing, processing, and analyzing complex data that often belong to big tech platform and raise privacy concerns. Traditional social science research models fall short because they rely on individual scholars to come up with ad hoc solutions. Instead, the…

A new class of adaptive and biomimetic neuronal platforms has been developed for the first time by direct coupling of biological neuronal cells with a neuromorphic chip. Despite standard neuroelectronic interfaces, the biohybrid synapse formed between the living and artificial neuronal systems is capable of interacting, keeping active memory of…