Christa Sommerer

Rare cancers and GBM, the most common and aggressive brain cancer, both have a highly negative health and economic impact and the lowest 5-year survival rate among all cancers. Theriac is going to be a cost-effective theranostic approach, with a high safety profile, high sensitivity and specificity and simultaneous monitoring…

In a novel approach to empower citizens to contribute to scientific research and close the linkages between science and society, we crowdsourced research questions from patients as well as their relatives and caretakers in the fields of mental health and traumatology. In both projects, crowd members provided more than 1000…

Uniteca is an online education system and digital library that helps students to achieve academic success. What makes it innovative is the fact that it is an app where it is possible to find several explainers available to give an explanation on a given subject, also giving the benefit of…

Agnes Reiner convinced the jury and won the 1st place of the global Falling Walls Lab Finale 2017. Agnes presented her research on novel blood-based biomarkers for the early detection of ovarian cancer.

Teeratat Bunsantrakul is addressing the safety and size issues of hydrogen storage systems by introducing carbon nanotubes into metal hydride structures. This nano composite material aims to improve the thermal properties, enhancing the speed of charging and reducing energy consumption during the hydrogen release process, making hydrogen fuel more widely…

Learners worldwide are canvasing the internet for help with fundamental courses that students take from junior year in high-school to junior year in college. Subjects like Composition, algebra, and chemistry serve as the foundational gateways on which students thrive or drop out of college. Study Hall aims to provide learners…

Ankita is working on nano-fiber filters that efficiently remove particles and enable good flow with the help of surface coating technology. These two functions are mutually exclusive in conventional filters.

The Tactile Universe is an outreach project at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation. We are developing accessible teaching resources and workshops to make current topics in astrophysics, traditionally a visual science, accessible to young people with vision impairments. By running training workshops for science communicators across…

Nominated by: Jano Costard, SPRIND – Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation Presented by: Stephan Herrmann

The nominating institution RWTH Aachen on the breakthrough: With the free and open source app phyphox many sensors (even present in old and cheap smartphones) become accessible for students and turns their smartphones in mobile physics labs. Phyphox offers tools and instructions from school to university level and from individual…