Boris Schmitt

It will be a portable device. It will work on Li-ion battery. You can take it with you. Full sterilization time for 1 liter of liquid food is up to 5 minutes. It is safe for the human body. Tags: Food & Agriculture, Water, milk, liquid food, disinfection of liquid,…

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

Our project is a narrow-spectrum therapy to deal with A. baumannii infections and in a long term provides a modular protein expression system that can be used to design new proteins for other species.   Tags: Bio-Tech, Engineering, Global Cooperation, Med-Tech, Science Communication.

PRESENTED BY Christoph Hantschk NOMINATED BY BMW Foundation, Herbert Quandt Tags: Planting trees, Collecting plastic waste, Sustainable, Organic Cotton, Tote bag, Plastic Free

Her scholarship changes the landscape of current thinking about what it means to be a “state” and to accept the role of “citizen.” It considers a set of institutional arrangements that not only embody an explicit set of values (the moral part) but also ensure, first, democratic practices that work…

Environmental Change: Christian Scharun investigates missing greenhouse gas emissions in datasets that contain reported data from the countries and is developing a method to adjust them with the aim of better understanding climate change.

Transformation of palm fiber into valuable cellulose and its further chemically modification are our effort to develop highly-effective and powerful adsorbent for removal dyes in aqueous media.   Tags: Engineering, Environment & Nature, Ocean Pollution.

Interferometers are instruments that extract information from the interference of waves in order to perform precise measurements. They are widely used in science and industry, with applications ranging from quantum physics to bio-medicine, as well as astronomy, chemistry and optometry. Nathalie Picqué is a research group leader at the Max-Planck…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz. She talked about her work as a historian and in anthropology in Brazil, how democracies can slowly become autocracies and what can be done to preserve democracies worldwide. The interview…

The nominating institution University of Ulm on the breakthrough: NMR is of major importance in biology, chemistry, medicine, and physics, as it gives access to molecular structure and revolutionised medical imaging. But the poor sensitivity of current NMR technology prevents its application to single proteins or the imaging of cellular…