Johannes Vogel

The nominating institution ORNL on the breakthrough: Mass production of protective equipment and testing supplies is critical to an effective pandemic response that saves lives by minimizing the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Lonnie Love is leading a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to create scientifically proven solutions that can…

The mission of OzGrav is to capitalise on the historic first detections of gravitational waves to understand the extreme physics of black holes and warped spacetime, and to inspire the next generation of Australian scientists and engineers through this new window on the Universe. The Centre brings together the Australian…

Distance Learning: How low-tech solutions help to make education accessible for everyone Education is key for economic advancement as well as social stability. However, providing quality education is especially challenging in countries that lack infrastructure, learning materials and trained teachers. UNESCO estimates that 617 million school-age children around the world…

HOW PEER-TO-PEER WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS ARE REPLACING CENTRALISED CONNECTIVITY On 28 January 2011 the Egyptian government, after three days of massive anti-regime protests, mostly organized through social networks, switched off 93 percent of the nation’s Internet. The top-down vulnerability issue of the web was obvious: most individual users are connected…

Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS) connects scientific research and video games as a seamless gaming experience. Players are invited to solve crowd-sourced research tasks integrated in video games, thus contributing to real-world scientific research. Projects include a mini-game where participants helped researchers understand the coronavirus by classifying cell populations. Another…

Our device comprises a strip and reader. A couple of blood drops (obtained from a heel prick) are applied to the strip, which is inserted into the reader. The biomarker levels are measured in 10 min. Tags: Bio-Tech, Engineering, Med-Tech.

In a time when everything can be faked and where identity theft and fake news are on the rise, trust is a volatile and precious thing. For centuries, trust in markets and between people was granted by governments and law enforcement. In today’s complex globalised markets and societies, decentralised blockchain…

Nominated by: BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Presented by: Anne Lamp

PRESENTED BY Mehak Mumtaz NOMINATED BY The Oxford Foundry Tags: Healthcare, Personalized Medicine, Photonics, Biomarkers

How Gender Balance Can Transform the Global Economy “Forget China, India and the internet: economic growth is driven by women”, the Economist wrote in 2006 in an article titled A guide to womenomics. Over the past 10 years, the importance of gender equality to promote development, innovation and economic growth…