Gabriela Marques-Schäfer

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Eric Isaacs, 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.…

‘Canticum Megapterae’ is a collaborative electronic music album inspired by the beauty and structure of humpback whale songs, and aiming at raising awareness of other intelligent species. By combining science and art, the project’s purpose is to break the walls between different disciplines, and between human and animal cultures. The…

In geometry, sphere packing refers to the arrangement of non-overlapping spheres within a containing space. An everyday example would be how oranges may be stacked as closely and thus efficiently as possible. What appears to be a rather ordinary task, has stumped mathematicians for centuries. It was only in 1998…

The optimal transport problem consists of finding the cheapest way of transporting a distribution of mass from one location to another. Alessio Figalli has used optimal transport’s techniques to mathematically understand: (1)the rigidity properties of crystals under the influence of external forces; (2)the behavior of large-scale atmospheric flows; (3)the universality…

Nominated by: National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia Presented by: Dr. Matija Gatalo

Latent Being is groundbreaking audio-visual artwork that turns Kraftwerk Berlin into an ecosystem of synesthetic interactions by utilizing a cutting-edge deep learning algorithm, styleGAN. Anadol’s collaboration with the mind of a machine interweaves the urban, architectural, societal, and perceptual scales of experience, allowing the audience walk through a dynamic ocean…

The nominating institution The OutCast Agency on the breakthrough: Ada combines future-proof technology with front-line medical research to advance knowledge and improve outcomes. Andreas led the rapid development of Ada’s COVID-19 assessment and screener, a free digital tool to help people identify and understand COVID-19 symptoms and guide them on…

The negative effects of our digital habits, our propensity to skim-read texts and our lack of mental focus have been widely reported. However, the real impact on our reading abilities, which extends to the impairment of crucial structures in the functioning of our brain, has consequences far greater than we…

Mónica A. Ramos Li is an industrial engineer by training and a social entrepreneur passionate about creating solutions to real problems and empowering people to achieve a better quality of life through education and the development of circular business models. She is also co-founder of Musa, a micro-learning solution.Musa is…