Carolin Schneider

The nominating institution HIPPO Foundation on the project: The HIPPO foundation builds artificial intelligence data sets representing the world’s population for each disease, and provides these datasets on their new open knowledge license. The HIPPO Foundation believes medical knowledge should be available to all, and that medical AI should become…

Extending high-precision measurements towards isotopes of the heaviest elements is challenging as these are only available on an atom-at-a-time level. This demands extremely efficient and sensitive tailored ion trap and laser spectroscopy approaches at large-scale accelerators featuring highest stability for measurement times up to days. This will improve our understanding…

Nominated by: Mauro Fasano, University of Insubria Presented by: Massimo Caccia

Alejandra L. Arredondo is addressing the issue of low blood neutrophil count, a common side effect of chemotherapy and one which predisposes patients to life-threatening infections. Producing neutrophils in the lab on demand will solve many current limitations of neutrophil transfusions.

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Rachel Kropa, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Science and Innovation Management. She talked about her role as co-founder and Managing Director of Nonprofit & Science at…

The nominating institution IBM Research Europe on the breakthrough: RoboRXN is a pioneering project, integrating AI, Cloud and Automation to change chemistry, from a traditional type of business into a high-tech business. A chemist (from a remote location) draws the molecule of interest and the AI models assist in the…

Ayhay is a Montessori-inspired for-profit and national accredited primary school that provides quality education for children in Madagascar with affordable tuition and local Montessori materials.

I plead for a design turn within the social sciences, in order to foster the renewal of empirical methods from an analytical towards a co-productive synthetic approach of knowledge production.

Based on an in-depth longitudinal case study of one inter-organizational relationship between two multinational companies, we present the counterintuitve idea that policical struggles within organizations can be a powerful driver of collaborative dynamics between organizations. We develop a process model, highlighting the need for a political perspective on inter-organizational relationships…

The nominating institute German Center for Research and Innovation on the breakthrough: Since 2015, Sabino has participated in international efforts to establish a rapid research response to emerging threats. When the COVID-19 epidemic started, her group was able to publish the complete genome sequence of the virus. This was only…