Chun Fang Shen

‘Canticum Megapterae’ is a collaborative electronic music album inspired by the beauty and structure of humpback whale songs, and aiming at raising awareness of other intelligent species. By combining science and art, the project’s purpose is to break the walls between different disciplines, and between human and animal cultures. The…

Janasuddi, meaning Smart News, is a audio digest in Kannada, a non-English Indian language, on science. Produced every day and distributed through WhatsApp and Anchor podcast director, the audio digest presents a curated summary of latest research from peer reviewed journals from across the world. The project started as an…

Drawing inspiration from the electrocardiogram, Prof Chen created a conformable electrode as a ‘communication’ device with plants to deliver reliable electrical signals to and from plants. This innovation in plant electronics leads to the first plant-based robot that can perform delicate tasks with superior power efficiency (10,000 times less than…

Tags: Diversity, Education, Science Communication, Trust in science.

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…

PRESENTED BY Vincenzo Cerullo NOMINATED BY University of Helsinki Tags: Cancer, Immuno Therapy

To remove heavy metals from produced wastewater, Praise Eromosele proposes using sawdust, a natural adsorbent from wood factories, in place of the more expensive methods, ultimately creating a sawdust “cycle”.

PRESENTED BY Teresa Baumann NOMINATED BY Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Tags: Biopharmaceutical Process Development, Digital Twins, Mechanistic Modelling, Bioprocessing 40

SprinD is a front-runner organization in Europe with a completely new approach to breakthrough innovation. I does not rely on peer-review-based identification and selcetion processes. Rather it aims at recruiting forward-looking innovation managers to select research and innovation projects which are both research-intensive and application-oriented. Rafael Laguna will be able…

This Winners Session features the Top 10 breakthroughs in the Social Sciences and Humanities category. Learn about societal philosophy and other philosophical approaches to understand our current society: from living in a society of singularities to providing a new ethical and philosophical framework for the 21st century, from a cultural…