Jamie Paik

Nominated by: National University of Singapore Presented by: Don Haut

How Psychiatric Epidemiology Can Help Reduce the Impact of Traumatic Events War, violence and abuse leave consequences that go much beyond physical destruction and pain. Armed conflicts, acts of terror, political violence, torture, and natural disasters affect millions around the world, with lasting social, political, economic and psychological consequences. These…

PRESENTED BY Viraj Agnihotri NOMINATED BY The University of Queensland Tags: Hearing Loss, Health Tech, Hearing Aids, Healthy Hearing, Medical Device

How Astronomy Explores the Past, Present and Future of the Universe The universe is a mysterious place – we know it is some 13.8 billion years old with the part we can observe being about 90 billion light years in diameter, which means that the most distant edges we can…

In radiology, how can we reduce the entrance surface dose while keeping the obtained image acceptability for routine radiographic examinations to improve diagnosis quality? Hamza Sekkat uses a phantom and solid-state detector/multisensor to optimize the radiation dose and image quality by selecting image parameters that give an acceptable one with…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Laura Hassink. She talked about her role as Managing Director for STM Journals at Elsevier and the current challenges and developments in academic publishing. The interview series provided an intimate personal atmosphere,…

Our rich sites, monuments and artefacts are talking, but we cannot understand their stories. By using innovative digital technologies and linking together their multimodal data available we can recover their memories. Therefore, with the EU’s financial support we are developing ground-breaking ICT solutions to analyse this complex data, retrieve, reconstruct,…

Our project is a smart AI quality inspector. It is a software tool that analyzes sensor data. LIENDA detects hidden anomalies in time series data and makes quality control recommendations. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Digitalisation.

Public trust and involvement in science plays a central role in addressing global challenges, achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and contributing to the overall wellbeing of society. This Falling Walls Circle Round Table debates how we can use Co-Creative Approaches to foster Science Engagement initiatives that aim to…

This project investigates clashing territorial views in the Pan-Amazon region in the South West of Colombia and offers new aesthetic tools via Media, capable of opening new avenues for knowledge exchange, dialogue and inter-existence. Through participatory research and socially engaged art, this project explores the potential of an ethics of…