Lorena Neira Ramírez

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…

We used to plan cities according to a master plan, building separate areas with different functions and reconnecting them by car. This approach shapes our cities until today, even though our ways of life and needs for the city have changed. The panelists at this Falling Walls Circle Plenary Table discuss which shifts are needed…

ArtTech provides the social vision of post-petrochemistry in the dye industry. The feasibility of the vision has been shared with society through fashion shows using our cutting-edge natural dyes.   Tags: Environment & Nature, Green Tech, Ocean pollution.

Mohamed Abdelkodous is addressing the vulnerability of glassy surfaces to environmental elements and the high costs of cleaning and maintenance. His proposed solution, NANO Surface-X®, is an advanced and cost-effective glass surface coating that leverages hydrophobic nanoparticles, providing self-cleaning abilities and protecting surfaces from water, dust, and other liquids to…

In the 20th Century, the Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) was observed in atom gases at the temperatures close to the absolute zero (Nobel Prize in Physics 2001). Then, Kavokin and co-authors have predicted and experimentally demonstrated BEC of light-matter quasiparticles, exciton-polaritons, at the room temperature. This major breakthrough in condensed matter…

The nominating institution The OutCast Agency on the breakthrough: Ada combines future-proof technology with front-line medical research to advance knowledge and improve outcomes. Andreas led the rapid development of Ada’s COVID-19 assessment and screener, a free digital tool to help people identify and understand COVID-19 symptoms and guide them on…

Tammy Ma: Breaking the Wall to Limitless Energy – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Nuclear fission, while a potent source of energy, is not without its significant challenges. One of the primary issues lies in the radioactive waste generated during the process. Fission reactions produce long-lived radioactive isotopes that pose…

Interdisciplinary approach to break the wall of pesticide usage. Benefit for environment, farmers, and society since significantly less pesticides have to be used for food production.   Tags: Bio-Tech, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture, Green Tech.

Andrzej Zak’s project combines biology, medicine, and engineering. Its essence is to build a new device for observing previously not visualised and unknown bacteria-light interaction phenomena.

Imagine 50 or even 50,000 students, anywhere the world, using a VR device to stand together with the instructor virtually, in real time, at the famous Pyramids at Giza, Egypt. The Giza Project at Harvard University assembles information about all the archaeological activity at the Giza Pyramids. Using digital archaeology,…