Kreske Nickelsen

Dyllon Garth Randall developed a profit-making opportunity for wastewater treatment. Using his technology, salts can be filtered out of the water and subsequently sold on, meaning that the investment pays for itself.

Benoit Schillings: Breaking the Wall to Invention Machines – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Generative artificial intelligence models are beginning to play a crucial role in automating creative tasks, enhancing simulations, improving content creation, enabling personalised user experiences, and revolutionising various industries. However, these advancements also bring ethical concerns, such…

ImmerseMe is virtually breaking the wall of miscommunication by teaching language and culture through breakthrough technology virtual reality. We’ve partnered with educators around the globe to design a fully interactive platform with 1,000s of authentic lessons across 9 languages. So far 75,000 students have test driven our technology and we’ve…

Protein Analytics: To understand how a biological system works, monitor the structures of the thousands of proteins within it. My laboratory has developed a technology that generates a new type of molecular data with which we can look at the structures (or shapes) of the proteins in living systems. We…

Rewriting Social Sciences: How humanity’s destiny can be framed by shared heritages through oceanic connections How can we think of the world as composed of categories derived from particular spaces and lifeworlds, rather than a space with categories seen as universal? How do we move beyond contingent formations, like nations…

Our app encourages students to drive their own learning experience via interaction with a 3D anatomical model in augmented reality. Whilst a number of anatomy applications use augmented reality, none concentrate on ocular anatomy in detail. The breakthrough is our integration of a Learn mode coupled with an adaptive Assess…

Georges Khouri has developed an immunochromatographic rapid test capable of diagnosing Chagas disease, Leishmaniasis, Malaria, and Gram (+)/Gram (-) bacterial infections made from polyclonal antibodies in a single strip.

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

Eliakim Kouakou Isaac Kouadio is tackling the impediment of electricity shortages in agro-pastoral development in Africa, adversely affecting farmers’ yields and rural villages. His solution involves the development of a chip, VK 001, which extracts chemical electricity from plants, providing green electrical energy to vulnerable populations without conventional electricity sources.

Capitalizing on smart thermobimetal’s natural tendency to curl as the temperature rises, DORIS SUNG’s refreshing aesthetic skillfully disguises its true purpose: to use no energy to save energy in buildings. With goals to self-shade, self-ventilate, self-assemble or self-propel, Sung’s projects defy standard categorization. With a keen understanding of computation, biology,…