Elizabeth Pollitzer

According to Sarah Martell, hydrogen is a promising clean fuel source to replace fossil fuels. Although hydrogen fuel is considered clean and sustainable, common production methods are unsustainable and emit CO2. Her solution is to synthesize a material called porous silicon nanoparticles derived from abundant starting materials. By simply adding…

Semiconductor Technology: How nanosheets can help humanity keep up with Moore’s law Ever since its inception, Moore’s law has been an integral part of technological advancement. In the past five decades, the semiconductor industry has been following Moore’s trend line to approximately double the number of transistors on a chip…

Pratik Kumar’s research paves a new way for designing and synthesizing scalable & reconfigurable analogue accelerators that are orders of magnitude more energy and area-efficient than conventional digital accelerators.

Tanja Dragun is working on preventing the progression of prediabetes to diabetes by proposing an early intervention education model for prediabetic patients. The programme focuses on providing practical information, particularly on nutrition and food glycaemic response, to positively impact metabolic health and investigate the effect of education on key metabolic…

PRESENTED BY Kadas Ella Maria NOMINATED BY BIH Innovations of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tags: Retinal Imaging, Deeper learning, 3D Modeling, Neurological Disorders, Brain Health, Machine Learning, Healthcare, AI in Healthcare, Monitoring

Anıl Axel Tellbüscher is addressing the environmental pollution caused by aquaculture waste by proposing a solution that combines coagulation technology, sludge pumps, and dewatering units. This innovative approach not only provides aquaculture farmers with a means to outsource their pollution problem but also creates a new business for external service…

Driving the Solar Energy Transition: Building a more Resilient and Secure Energy Supply Chain – Falling Walls Circle Plenary Table 2023 The urgency to tackle the climate crisis and achieve sustainable growth is adding to the momentum of the global energy transformation. Solar Photovoltaics (PV) undoubtedly has the potential to…

Ayitévi F. E. Hounou-Adossi’s vision is to use information and communication technologies to reduce preventable deaths and disabilities through simple actions that everyone must know and can do.

Current technologies from silicon chips to computer memory to mobile phone displays are all derived from the fundamental quantum properties of materials. Creating novel materials and manipulating their electronic arrangements is the key to harnessing quantum properties at a macro-level for revolutionary technological advances. Suchitra Sebastian, an experimental condensed matter…

Iain Couzin and his team discovered that there exist fundamental geometrical principles that apply across scales of biological organization, from the scale of neural interactions, to individual and collective decision-making. Specifically, their work revealed that animals’ brains cope with environmental complexity by spontaneously reducing the many options they face in…