Ivana Domljanovic

Our products are Artificial limbs. Now we have a design of knee and we started to build it. We are aiming to design more and build it too. Tags: Diversity, Engineering, prosthetic limbs.

Nominated by: Serge Cosnier, University Grenoble Alpes Presented by: Jules Hammond

My project harnessed the power contained in macromolecules; these proteins capture carbon dioxide and produce 10 million molecules of carbonates, fuels, and energy in as little as a second.

PRESENTED BY Lev Savkun NOMINATED BY Leibniz Universität Hannover – Institut für Mikroproduktionstechnik Tags: Magnetism, Industry 4.0, Magnetic, Storage Medium, ID

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…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Nathalie Picqué, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Physical Sciences. She talked about her role as a research group leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics…

Cemalcan Uslu is tackling the challenges of Aphasia, a language disorder stemming from brain damage, with his innovative software concept, Speechia. This interdisciplinary project merges linguistics and medicine, offering a tailored 5-step approach to assist individuals with Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia, enhancing sentence formation and comprehension through speech recognition, language…

Francesca Fragkoudi received the award for the Falling Walls Engage Science Engagement of the Year 2018 for the project Columba-Hypatia. This is a science outreach project which takes place on the post-conflict island of Cyprus, with the aim of using astronomy as a tool for promoting meaningful communication and a…

The nominating institute CERN on the project: Tello is coordinator of the EU-funded initiative ATTRACT,  which creates breakthrough innovations in detection and imaging. It’s a novel co-innovation scheme that engages research infrastructures, industry, private investors and students in entrepreneurship, using the principles of open innovation and cascade funding.

PRESENTED BY Norbert Witz NOMINATED BY University of Stuttgart Tags: Semiconductors, Laser Engineering