Lisa Ericsson

My project would like to realize evidence-based education to meet demands for improved education standards. My project collects so called ‘educational big data’ from LMS and digital textbooks. The collected data is immediately analyzed and used for effective feedback to both learners and teachers. The main concept is real-time education…

At Kvark Science Show, science meets entertainment and collaborates to create an event never before seen in Europe. The main goal of the show was branding knowledge as a superpower thus making STEAM more interesting and intriguing to students, children, and adults. During the show, two performers displayed and explained…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Jane Achan who is part of the Falling Walls Female Science Talents Program. She talked about her role as a Senior Research Advisor at the United Kingdom-based non-governmental organization Malaria Consortium and…

How Insect Science Contributes to Understanding Human Immunity Let us be honest – when reading the words “insect research”, we rather think about killing insects than about learning from them. Luxembourg born immunologist Jules A. Hoffmann has based his multi-awarded career, crowned by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or…

Rhys Pirie won first place at the Falling Walls Lab Finale 2019 with his pitch on Breaking the Wall of Broken Glass. Rhys convinced the jury in three minutes by presenting a low-cost process which turns ‘waste’ glass into high-value products such as detergents, tyres, and even toothpaste.

Bioplastics to solve food waste. Tags: Bio-Tech, Circular Economy, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture.

Quantum Computing arguably presents the biggest shift in computer science since its inception. After 25 years of fundamental theoretical and experimental research, the top leaders in the field worldwide have committed themselves to the development of quantum computers as a real technology, solving real computational problems. The panelists of this…

Transfer of Technologies: Bringing Deep Tech of Big Science Research to the Market. ATTRACT is a unique funding instrument of the European Commission designed to tap into the world-class deep tech developed by Europe’s world-renowned scientific research infrastructures like CERN, European Southern Observatory, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and some 600…

As a result of the strong economic growth in many African countries, the continent has a growing demand for young professionals, particularly in mathematics, IT and engineering, in order to ensure rapid and stable economic, social and political development. Yet, only six per cent of post-secondary aged Africans are enrolled…

The laboratory is working on new possibilities for processing medical images using neural networks. It is planned to create new neural network architectures to work on this task. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, Med-Tech.