Julika Weiß

We used our more than 12 years of giving training in STEM subjects to 1000s of students in face to face setup and innovation labs around Egypt, and designed our online courses content to: keep the enrolled students engaged, give the sensation of hands-on experience using simulations, gamification and other…

Trishla Sinha is investigating the impact of early life exposures, particularly the gut microbiome, on the later onset of diseases such as allergies, asthma, and obesity. Her solution involves studying 1500 mother-infant pairs, considering genetics, immune system, and environment, to develop novel preventive measures, including personalised nutrition, to modulate the…

A key driver for all scientific research is humanity’s natural instinct for exploration. We are driven to go where no one has gone before, discover what no one has found, and study what has never been seen. Scientists follow this exploratory instinct in all kinds of directions, whether it’s space,…

PRESENTED BY Pierre Le Blainvaux NOMINATED BY Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Tags: Ecological Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Biosorption, Biomass, Eco-catalysts

Girls, especially in underserved populations and especially in rural areas, are faced with too many challenges when it comes to education and only few consider STEM careers as an option. In fact, due to social pressure, most of them drop school at an early age (around 57% drop out after…

Our cities are heating up nearly twice as fast as the global average. By 2050, the urban population exposed to extreme temperatures is estimated to increase by 800%. This growth will yield a corresponding momentous increase in energy demand for cooling. Meanwhile, our prevailing cooling technology contributes to a warming globe, exacerbating…

The nominating institution Max-Planck-Institute on the breakthrough: I led an interdisciplinary team of computer and behavioral scientists, to study how humans think about the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. We designed a game, the Moral Machine, in which people decide what a self-driving car should do when it is faced with…

Water is a clean source of energy that be used as a fuel for a hydrogen-powered, self-manufacturing hydrogen-cell car that does not need expensive hydrogen fuel stations.

How the Neuroscience of Sound, Language and Music Shapes Human Communication Communication through sound is an everyday miracle. Spoken language reaches the listener’s ear as soundwaves that our auditory system transforms into brainwaves. But merely decoding sound from the environment is insufficient to guarantee that its meaning will be understood.…

Nurudeen Issa and his team are developing an innovative solar-wind hybrid for households and businesses that will offer renewable energy in an affordable way.