Laura J. Martin

Nominated by: Melusine Reimers, Ruhr University Bochum Presented by: Dennis Michaelis

Due to technical problems, this falling walls breakthrough conversation could not be recorded in full. In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Aline Sara, Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Future Learning. She…

How Security Studies Explore the Roots of Terror What is it that motivates a formerly non-religious person to plan and commit a massacre declared as an act of god? What are the factors that attract young Europeans to a career as islamist fighters on the battlefields of Syria? These are…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Marcus Mall, Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2022 in the category of Life Sciences. He talked about his role as chair of the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical…

This project seeks to reveal the nature of graffiti prohibition as content-based speech regulation. It will unearth the practice of favoring messages conforming to prevailing narratives and aesthetic standards. This research is very timely given the role of graffiti in the recent “Black Lives Matter” uprisings. The authors’ groundbreaking proposal…

How an artificial intelligence can become a truly musical companion Music has long been hailed as one of the last frontiers of human creativity; and music is not just composition, but also, and equally important, expressive performance. It is the performers and the musicians who bring a piece to life,…

Natasha Theriault is developing a bacteriophage-based vaccine platform which can be rapidly adapted against newly-emerging pathogens and safely distributed in locations regardless of cold-supply chain infrastructure.

Growing plants in arid lands entail an extreme evaporative loss of water & poor sandy soils. SandX mulch curtails this water loss, and CarboSoil improves soil fertility and sequesters carbon.

We do deep research in examining these creatures and utilizing them for our behalf, we treated several patients who suffered from antibiotic resistant infections using phages, many of them successfully. Tags: Bio-Tech, Med-Tech, Science Policy, Microbiology, Antibiotic Resistance.

The nominating institution Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation on the breakthrough:  TraNSIT Web revolutionises transport infrastructure investments: reducing freight costs, improving supply chain resilience. Using machine learning it cracks IT limitations on big data, modelling >15 million annual freight trips for stakeholders to use in regional infrastructure planning. The…