Francesca Santoro

PRESENTED BY Maksym Plakhotnyuk NOMINATED BY University of Illinois Chicago Tags: Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Micro Devices, Nano Devices, Deep Tech , Atomic Layer Processing

PRESENTED BY Luisa Javier NOMINATED BY King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Tags: Disinfectant, Organic, Eco friendly

Rogers Githinji’s project aims to use technology to break the barrier that exists between people and lawyers. With legal information, individuals can uphold the law and protect themselves and their families.

Development of a novel waste-to-fuel process to produce diesel and electricity for modular, off-grid applications. Develop a novel catalyst with high activity and stability for the novel process. Tags: Circular Economy, Energy, Engineering, Green Tech, Renewable energies.

The nominating institution Karlsruhe Institute of Technology on the breakthrough: Puchta is a pioneer who demonstrates that CRISPR/Cas as a site-specific nuclease can be used for restructuring complete plant chromosomes. He elucidated major mechanisms of DNA double strand break repair, and he is one of the leading scientists adopting this…

In the global North, discussions of climate change often carry an undercurrent of fear in terms of anxiety around an “inundation” of rich countries by so-called climate refugees. At the same time, much of the discourse is based on finding financial solutions to the vulnerabilities exposed by climate change, leading…

Nachtlichter (“Night Lights”) is an app that assists citizen scientists in creating outdoor lighting inventories on unprecedented spatial scales. The app was co-created by a team of German citizen scientists together with researchers at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences as part of the Helmholtz Association’s “Nachtlicht-BüHNE” project. While…

An estimated 2 billion people consume insects worldwide, and yet the appeal – and commercial availability – of this foodstock remains very limited, especially in the West. With more than 2,000 edible insect species on this planet, packed with high-quality protein, amino acids, vitamins, calcium, zinc, iron, oils, antioxidants and…

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

The nominating institution University of Edinburgh on the breakthrough: New X-ray Free-Electron Lasers allow us to track the motion of atoms and capture the rearrangement of electrons as molecules absorb light or undergo chemical reactions. This powerful imaging technique creates sharp and detailed movies that unveil how molecular machines function,…