Jason Chin

By utilizing nanoscale light sources as artificial photonic neurons, Matěj Hejda and his team aim to develop a novel, light-powered, high speed hardware with a brain-inspired architecture for energy-efficient AI computation.

In our connected world, data is all around us. We generate data, we use data and we store data at an ever-increasing rate. This comes at a price: The data storage industry could soon account for 20% of global energy usage while creating more CO2 than the aviation industry. But…

A kilometre scale lunar seismometer array can detect the minuscule vibrations that are caused by gravitational waves which stretch and squeeze the Moon and be a sub-Hz gravitational wave detector.

Feiyang Xie’s project aims to investigate unique desert actinobacteria with potential plant growth-promoting properties under drought.

Zhu is a pioneer in bringing AI and data science together with earth observation for retrieving valuable geoinformation from satellite remote sensing and other data sources. Her big geodata analytics algorithms enable breakthroughs in geoscientific and environmental research. Her current endeavor is the fusion of petabytes of data from satellites…

Nominated by: Evonik Venture Capital GmbH Presented by: Omer Blaier

Fabrication of a 3D bioprinting macro vascular tree that will be connected with the cells assemble micro capillary network to study the behavior of metastatic cells through the endothelial barrier. Tags: Bio-Tech.

Batteries have been around for a long time, but it is only in the last decade that they have become a key tool in global energy transition and the fight against climate change. An increasingly electrified world needs more efficient and more sustainable batteries. In this Falling Walls Round Table,…

PRESENTED BY Lubomila Jordanova NOMINATED BY BMW Foundation, Herbert Quandt Tags: Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction, Sustainability, Climate Action, Corporate Sustainability, CO2 Emissions

Mobilising the power of innovation to address societal and environmental challenges. The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) was established in 2017 as a five-year global knowledge platform, coordinated by the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, the Centre for Global Challenges at Utrecht University, and Ingenio in…