Jean-François Soussana

The nominating institute Innoplexus on the breakthrough: Bhardwaj’s breakthrough Curia taps into the data ocean of the world’s largest research graph in life sciences. The app provides the latest information on cancer treatments, clinical trials and experts. Enabled by various AI technologies that scan, extract and structure data from billions…

The project organizes rapid, evidence-based guidance for policymakers combating the pandemic. It engages a large network of social and behavioral experts and skilled, science communicators. Actionable reports have been issued on evaluating disease data, encouraging mask wearing and distancing, and applying survey-research lessons to contact-tracing. Report utilization, report downloads, webinar…

Tapping into the power of art as a conduit for change, artists around the world are to an ever-greater extent using their work to weigh in on some of the most pressing political and social issues of our times – be it extremism, the refugee crisis or the effects of…

Waliyat A. Kola-Aderoju’s project is an intersection of making learning fun and easy for children and teaching them about helping the immediate environment become a cleaner and safer place for other organisms.

The nominating institution Forschungszentrum Jülich on the breakthrough: With quantum computing we face the beginning of a paradigm shift in computer science and scientific computing, which can considerably change science, industry, economy and our every-day life. The demonstration of quantum supremacy, which required a sufficiently large quantum processor with a…

The breast cancer tumour is one of the fastest-growing tumours and is often diagnosed very late in its growth. X-ray imaging isn’t fast enough here. Hunain Bin Amir’s team has developed a new generation of infrared sensors combined with AI that can be employed in pocket-size gadgets for breast cancer…

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…

Digital Platform of educational ludic challenges. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Climate change, Covid-19, Digitalisation, Diversity, Education, Environment & Nature, Global Cooperation, Resilience, Science Communication, Social Cohesion.

Water is a clean source of energy that be used as a fuel for a hydrogen-powered, self-manufacturing hydrogen-cell car that does not need expensive hydrogen fuel stations.

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…