Charlotte Jarvis

The nominating institution Australian National University on the project: Cyber-physical systems will revolutionise our world. Who will build them? Who will make sure they reflect all our humanity and values? We need a new discipline – and the practitioners to go with it – to challenge conventional thinking, to open…

Dyllon Garth Randall developed a profit-making opportunity for wastewater treatment. Using his technology, salts can be filtered out of the water and subsequently sold on, meaning that the investment pays for itself.

Nominated by: Jerome Etwaroo, University Of Victoria Presented by: Stephanie Willerth

Professor Heidi J. Larson is the Founding Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project and Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Clinical Professor, Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle; and Guest Professor at the University of Antwerp and…

Donna Strickland is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification-which is the current state-of-the-art technique used by most of the highest-power lasers in the world. In her talk, Strickland was talking about the relevance of lasers, the relationship between light and…

Nominated by: University of Alberta Presented by: Prof. Jana Rieger

The nominating institution WZB Berlin Social Science Center on the breakthrough: COVID-19 has profound consequences for gender equality. Hipp and Allmendinger were the first ones to put this finding on the agenda of the nation’s public discourse. Various studies are now being undertaken to look into a possible re-traditionalisation. Hipp’s…

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…

To put the Solar System’s terrestrial planets in context, the detection and characterization of low-mass exoplanets is important but challenging. The Dispersed Matter Planet Project targets stars with anomalously low Ca II H and K chromospheric emission, indicative of circumstellar absorbing gas. Tags: Space & the Universe

Rare-earth elements have distinct properties that make them vital to the electronics and energy sectors. However, the current method of their extraction remains highly toxic and unsustainable. Arshia Mostoufi proposes using a novel biological-based system for the cost-effective and environmentally friendly extraction of rare-earth elements from metal ores using a…