Libor Šmejkal

PRESENTED BY José Augusto Stuchi NOMINATED BY German Science and Innovation House São Paulo – (DWIH São Paulo) Tags: Ophtalmology, Telemedecine, Visual Impairment, Blindness, Prevention

According to Sarah Martell, hydrogen is a promising clean fuel source to replace fossil fuels. Although hydrogen fuel is considered clean and sustainable, common production methods are unsustainable and emit CO2. Her solution is to synthesize a material called porous silicon nanoparticles derived from abundant starting materials. By simply adding…

Production of microbial polymers from synthetic media, agroindustrial waste and bioprocesses residual biomass. Exploring the potential of different known and novel microbes.

UTAS’s mission is “A place where we do things for Tasmania and from Tasmania”. Its strategy and implementation are geared to improve life for Tasmanians in six areas: Educational Attainment, Health, Economic Performance, Social Inclusion, Cultural Participation, and Environmental Sustainability. It deploys outcome indicators to measure and manage progress in…

How Climate Science Calls For Radical Changes in Energy Policy On the long and winding road to more sustainable energy and climate policies, the year 2015 saw several unexpected and positive developments – the largest fossil fuel divestment campaign in history reached its peak and led to trillions of dollars…

Maureen Gumbo proposes utilising porous materials which can absorb water vapour and condense it into usable clean water to combat the shortage of clean water.

Graphite as it occurs in pencils is a brittle material that does not exactly spur the imagination, but modified into a two-dimensional web of hexagonal structures, it gains extraordinary superpowers. Graphene, a nanomaterial discovered in 2004, is 200 times stronger than steel, conducts both electricity and heat, and is almost…

We compared the characteristics of complicated and uncomplicated pediatric liver transplant recipients. We found a parameter in the early postoperative period that could predict complications.   Tags: Med-Tech, Health Sciences.

Nominated by: Tohoku University Presented by: Hiroya Abe

I plead for a design turn within the social sciences, in order to foster the renewal of empirical methods from an analytical towards a co-productive synthetic approach of knowledge production.