Elke Schäffner

Shabib Alrashdi is addressing the profitability challenge of biochar production, a charred biomass known for improving sandy soil fertility and acting as a carbon sink. His proposed solution involves identifying the labile carbon fraction and degree of aromaticity in different types of biochar, aiming to determine the quantity and kinetics…

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Prof. Ting Xu received Ph.D in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2004 and postdoc training at the University of Pennsylvania and NIST. She jointed University of California, Berkeley in 2007 in the Department of Material Sciences and Engineering and Department of Chemistry. Her research…

The nominating institution German Aerospace Center on the project: It is a challenge to provide adequate living for a rapidly growing urban population. To cope with population influx, demographic shifts and climate change requires functioning and resilient cities. Here, a combination of Big Earth Data, AI and modern ICT can…

The nominating institution National University of Singapore on the breakthrough: The current pandemic is disrupting lives and rapid on-site testing is key to containing the outbreak. However, current testing requires samples to be sent to a centralized laboratory and results can take up to a few days to be made…

Giorgi Svanishvili is working on enhancing treatment options for neurological diseases linked to chronic inflammation, such as ALS and MS, by utilising stem cell therapy and a bioinformatics approach to analyse molecular changes and responses. The aim is to identify therapeutic targets and mechanisms of action, leading to the development…

Nomin Tserendulam is addressing the issue of livestock waste (wool, horn, and hoof waste) by proposing the production of keratin-based eco-friendly polymers from livestock waste using microorganisms, which are used to manufacture packaging, biofertilizers, wound-healing patches, and much more.

Sherwood Lollar brings together hydrogeology and isotope geochemistry to challenge understandings of the role of water in planetary subsurfaces. Her work explores the physical and chemical controls on subsurface architecture by tracking the fate of carbon-bearing fluids and gases in ancient fracture waters in the Earth’s crust. Her project on…

Fatema Al Maqbali proposes that green desalination can be achieved with a microbial desalination cell fueled by wastewater and integrated with a natural bio adsorbent.

Cutting-edge particle accelerator and quantum computational simulations to unveil each step of an enzyme reaction to guide an efficient design of new functions for sustainable industrial applications.