Elaine Chew

Much of the world’s energy demands continue to depend on fossil fuels. However, mounting environmental concerns and decarbonisation efforts have propelled the development of sustainable processes to produce chemicals, fuels and materials from renewable biological resources. Biotechnology has been making strides and could soon help address a range of global…

Since 1995, the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group has worked closely with federal, tribal, state, and other partners across the Northwest to prepare for and manage the local impacts of a changing climate. CIG is widely recognized for scientific discovery and as an experienced creator of impartial and actionable…

Nominated by: Technische Universität Berlin Presented by: Dr. Lutz Kloke

In cities, dragonflies are susceptible to falling into ecological traps of polarized light. Claudia Patricia Mamani Medina argues that we can help their conservation by detecting and camouflaging potential ecological traps in urban elements.

Sofia Pazzagli and her team developed a new method to ‘write’ micrometric pattern inside glass-like materials which is 10 times more efficient and up to 5 times less expensive than the currently available techniques.

Feiyang Xie’s project aims to investigate unique desert actinobacteria with potential plant growth-promoting properties under drought.

Life is built from proteins, like the cells in our skin, hair, eyes, and also viruses. We have developed am approach to exploit the quantum properties of proteins to translate them to sound, and use it to better understand biomaterials, and treat diseases. Based on the similarities between the structure…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Mark Ferguson, digital participants had the chance to discuss and ask questions. The interview series provided an intense personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 focused on their individual research, career paths and experiences.…

Nominated by: Tomomasa Haraguchi, Japan Science and Technology Agency Presented by: Tennin Yan

Quantum Computers in the NISQ Era – Competition or Cooperation? Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. Quantum Computers have made headlines,…