JJ Richardson

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

Daniel Garavito’s dream is for all human beings to have access to the knowledge of humanity within reach. For this he created CallsToEducate, bringing education to all corners of the world through a simple call.

Combating the Pandemic: How a novel approach helps combat the COVID-19 pandemic With almost five million suspected deaths worldwide and counting, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the deadliest disasters in human history. Once its global spread and destructive force became clear at the beginning of 2020, scientists…

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…

Breaking the Wall of Technology Valuation; making it objective, accessible & affordable. OxValue.AI aims to break the wall of technology valuation, unblock the bottleneck of technology transfer by creating a groundbreaking theoretical framework and a novel methodological method of technology valuation based on bigdata, econometric and machine learning techniques. An…

With his GPS tech and field methodology, Jan Breinbauer is reducing around 30% of pesticides used in Chile.

In a novel approach to empower citizens to contribute to scientific research and close the linkages between science and society, we crowdsourced research questions from patients as well as their relatives and caretakers in the fields of mental health and traumatology. In both projects, crowd members provided more than 1000…

In the current age of life sciences, we have come to invent better and better drugs that are increasingly efficient in relieving pain and treating diseases. Despite this positive trend, the world continuously faces serious medicine shortages and in many parts of the world drugs and painkillers may either be…

Nominated by: Catherine Fletcher, Science Creates Ventures Presented by: Neil Morris

In the global North, discussions of climate change often carry an undercurrent of fear in terms of anxiety around an “inundation” of rich countries by so-called climate refugees. At the same time, much of the discourse is based on finding financial solutions to the vulnerabilities exposed by climate change, leading…