Habiba Thawer

This Winners Session features the Top 10 breakthroughs in the Engineering and Technology category. Several of the presented projects are developing eco-friendly materials and Clean Energy solutions, including safer, more energy-efficient batteries and a new method of cement production that reduces CO2 emissions, thereby ensuring that housing is both affordable…

Cystic fibrosis remains one of the most common fatal genetic diseases, as well as the most common fatal hereditary lung disease worldwide. In recent years, medical scientists have made intensified attempts at understanding the disease mechanism at the core of cystic fibrosis, namely the defect in the CFTR protein. In…

A street psychiatrist and clinician anthropologist in London, UK, Dr Jadhav works as a Professor of Cultural Psychiatry, University College London; Consultant Psychiatrist, Camden Homeless-ed Outreach Services & Islington Mental Health Services & Lead Clinician, Cultural Consultation Service, Camden and Islington NHS Trust, London, UK. Dr Jadhav’s current interests include…

Despite over 40 years of research there is currently no commercially viable treatment for bio- and mixed plastic waste at scale. Burning them requires expensive exhaust-gas clean-up (e.g. dioxins) and frequent reactor maintenance (toxic slag build-up). Cat-HTR™ changes this completely: it continuously generates and distils stable end-products, yielding from mixed…

How the Study of Ancient DNA Traces Human Origins In the early years of his career as a scientist, Svante Pääbo changed the course of his studies from molecular biology to evolutionary genetics – and at the same time the course of the latter scientific field itself. By drying a…

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.

The project is included within the regeneration program of the entire Central Park of Mazatlán. The project will offer the complete experience of the marine ecosystems of the Sea of ​​Cortez, as well as the terrestrial ones of its shores. Around and inside the building nature lives alive and growing,…

How tiny wireless robots can be used for non-invasive, precise, and safe medical diagnosis and treatment Robot technology is already abundant in the medical domain, ranging from assistance in surgery to complex prosthetics. However, using tiny robots inside the body is still a fairly novel thing to do. Inspired by…

This interdisciplinary project links social neuroscience, cognitive psychology, robotics, AI and philosophy with potential for high societal impact. The project examines how the human brain processes social signals exhibited by artificial agents, such as humanoid robots, in order to improve robot design for human-robot interaction in general, and their acceptance…

Several studies attempt to unravel the causes of excitatory/inhibitory imbalance in schizophrenia. The pitfall is the loose control of the exact target cells keeping an excessive level of abstraction. Enrico Patrono argues that implementing microfluidic chips called Brain-on-a-Chip, an innovative in-vitro-silico model for neural circuits allows high temporal and spatial…