Giorgi Svanishvili

Corruption is often thought of as a collection of individual venalities: a politician with a weakness for Rolex watches, an underpaid cop who looks the other way in exchange for some wadded-up bills. This image underestimates the dimensions of today’s problem. Public corruption scandals now routinely feature billion-dollar sums. Far…

While we know from astrophysical observations that dark matter exists, its nature remains a mystery and its detection in the laboratory would be a major breakthrough. While the discovery of dark matter is still outstanding, in 2019 the experiment observed the decay of Xenon-124 atoms for the first time, with…

Eliakim Kouakou Isaac Kouadio is tackling the impediment of electricity shortages in agro-pastoral development in Africa, adversely affecting farmers’ yields and rural villages. His solution involves the development of a chip, VK 001, which extracts chemical electricity from plants, providing green electrical energy to vulnerable populations without conventional electricity sources.

The nominating institution University of Ulm on the breakthrough: NMR is of major importance in biology, chemistry, medicine, and physics, as it gives access to molecular structure and revolutionised medical imaging. But the poor sensitivity of current NMR technology prevents its application to single proteins or the imaging of cellular…

How Microbiome Research Redefines Our Idea of Being Human For the better part of the 20th century, we could be rather sure that being human meant that our bodies are made up of our own human cells, controlled by our own DNA, while our autonomous brains give rise to emotions and…

The nominating institution EPFL on the breakthrough: eM+ works on tangible & intangible heritage and archival materials from Asia, Australasia and Europe using computer science and human-computer interaction techniques to alter cultural data into advanced ultra-high-resolution visualizations. It brings novel digital imaging technology into museums in association with cultural and…

Amalia Sitti Khayyira creates added-value natural products that possess medicine-like effects. Her current product is fermented palm sugar that can reduce postprandial blood glucose in people with diabetes.

How the Tropical Laboratory Initiative is increasing Access to Healthcare in Low Resource Countries Tropical Diseases were defined in the 1970s by international organisations such as the World Health Organization as those infectious ailments like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and Ebola that disproportionately affect poor and marginalised populations in the developing…

Democracy is at risk. All around the world, democratic states, governments and democratic values that lie at the core of a peaceful and equal society are being weakened and eroded, thus paving the way for anti-democratic sentiments and systems. A historian and anthropologist and Professor at the University of São…

Production of microbial polymers from synthetic media, agroindustrial waste and bioprocesses residual biomass. Exploring the potential of different known and novel microbes.