Carlos Garcia de Leaniz

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Maria Leptin, digital participants had the chance to discuss and ask questions. The interview series provided an intense personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 focused on their individual research, career paths and experiences.…

Rachel Kropa is Managing Director of Nonprofit and Science at Robert Downey Jr’s FootPrint Coalition, a coalition of investors, donors, and storytellers committed to scaling technologies to restore the planet. FootPrint Coalition’s Science Engine is an initiative that enables scientists to share and crowdfund their research on climate and biodiversity crises by…

Andrzej Zak’s project combines biology, medicine, and engineering. Its essence is to build a new device for observing previously not visualised and unknown bacteria-light interaction phenomena.

Integrating Ethics and Public Engagement into Scientific Discovery – Falling Walls Circle Round Table 2023 As we seek groundbreaking science to benefit humanity while minimizing risks, the need for interdisciplinary scientific collaboration and public engagement is increasingly important. The participants of this session will discuss how to break the walls…

Scientia Pakistan is a digital Science magazine. We assemble the best, up-to-date, most-absorbing material related to the world of Science with its every monthly edition on a specific topic and daily science news. We make complex topics accessible to a lay audience while keeping the scientific accuracy. Our data is…

Whether we’re analysing a pandemic, calculating people’s life expectancy, organizing health insurance, collecting patient responses to new therapies or whether we’re just making an appointment in a doctor’s office: Our health is closely connected to data. But how can we properly use this trove of data in order to develop…

The nominating institution Leuphana University on the breakthrough: The Volkswagen foundation has developed a new selection procedure due to the impossibility of absolute objectiveness: In the funding initiative “Experiment!”, part of the funded projects are selected by an independent jury. Additionally, further projects are drawn from those applications that are…

Nikita Sud is Professor of the Politics of Development at the University of Oxford. She is Governing Body Fellow and Vicegerent of Wolfson College, and a faculty member of the Oxford Department of International Development. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, educated at the Universities of Delhi and Oxford. Nikita’s research…

Nominated by: Bo Norrman, Chalmers University of Technology Presented by: Karl Bergman

Michaela Vojníková argues that bioceramic scaffolds can be prepared by using a freeze-casting method. This allows people to prepare pores appropriate for nerve guidance with a length of more than 3 cm and from a biocompatible material.