Daniel Ropers

Challenges and Best Practices of Ageing Societies – Falling Walls Circle Round Table 2023 Population ageing is a global phenomenon that affects both developing and developed countries. From social isolation and loneliness to economic implications and pressure on healthcare systems, increasing life expectancy and declining birth rates lead to a…

SPRIND Sciencepreneurship Symposium – Falling Walls Circle 2023 Scientific breakthroughs can solve our biggest challenges – from infectious diseases and cancer to cyber security, shortages of natural resources, and rapid climate change. To transform new knowledge into deeply impactful results, Science needs to engage with change makers. We need great…

Instagram is one of the most used social media platforms where people post the positive side of life and breathtaking photos, this makes it perfect for science! Mitocondria.cc is all about sharing the amazing facts of the universe and the way science is part of our everyday life. Our non-scientific…

ImmerseMe is virtually breaking the wall of miscommunication by teaching language and culture through breakthrough technology virtual reality. We’ve partnered with educators around the globe to design a fully interactive platform with 1,000s of authentic lessons across 9 languages. So far 75,000 students have test driven our technology and we’ve…

Many scholars have understood that the liberal (international) order is under stress inside and outside the “liberal core.” However, most take the state in its Weberian form for granted. Areas of limited statehood are ubiquituous and it is the combination of limited statehood and order contestations which characterizes the contemporary…

Carbfix is an academic-industrial partnership that has developed a novel approach to capture and store CO2 by its dissolution in water and its injection into subsurface basalts. Once in the subsurface, the injected CO2 reacts with the host rock forming stable carbonate minerals, thus providing for the safe, long-term storage…

Light-Emitting Silicon: Demonstration of Efficient Light Emission from a new alloy of hexagonal silicon and germanium to obtain photonic chips, which can revolutionize computing. Silicon is a powerful material pervading our everyday lives. Silicon-based microchips are the basis of nearly every electronic device used in our houses, cars, smart gadgets,…

In the struggle against global warming, 15 October 2016 marks a historic date – the closing of the Kigali Agreement on reducing extremely powerful hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) pollutants over the next decades. An amendment to the Montréal Protocol of 1987, the Kigali Agreement was agreed upon by more than 140 nations…

The nominating institution TU Munich on the breakthrough: Reconstructing our 3D world from moving cameras is at the heart of computer vision. It fuels endless applications ranging from augmented reality and computer animation over 3D perception for self-driving cars to digital heritage and medical imaging. Daniel Cremers made groundbreaking advances…

Thousands of students across Canada developed STEM projects this year, but most regional science fairs in March/April and the 2020 Canada-Wide Science Fair in May were cancelled. On May 4, YSC launched an online fair to encourage grade 7-12 students to share their projects and fuel their journey of discovery…