Lorenzo Cremonese

Retinal prostheses hold the potential to revert blindness in profoundly blind people. However, devices should provide visual perception at high resolution and, most importantly, over a wide visual angle to be valuable in everyday activities. To solve this technological challenge, we have developed and validated a photovoltaic wide-field retinal implant…

Miniaturizing engines and machines to sizes less than a few millimetres remains an unmet challenge because of the complexity of their design and their fundamental physics that does not favor down-sizing. Materials that respond like muscles by changing their shape or size on demand offer an alternative way to power…

CREATE is a unique applied research centre that develops practical solutions to foster the economic and social integration of refugees through education and employment. CREATE has developed innovative Virtual Career Clinics based on a mentor/mentee model that support over 150 people each year to access employment. Working in close partnership…

The nominating institution Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center on the breakthrough: Dr Yong-Zhen Zhang was the first to deposit the sequence of SARS-CoV2, the virus causing COVID-19, in a public repository. This catalysed the deposition of other sequences from other scientists. It was this early deposition of the sequence that…

Nominated by: Ruhr-Universität Bochum Presented by: Alexander Kanitz

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…

Presented by: Dana Kralisch JeNaCell produces pads made of nanocellulose for the after-treatment of dermal injuries and for dermatological treatments. These pads are completely sterile, have a unique high water level and offer a constant cooling. Based on biotechnologically derived cellulose, the pads are skin-friendly and soft, can be peeled…

In the final voting, NextGen Water’s multidisciplinary team emerged at the forefront, comprising Dr. Hussam Hussein, a political scientist from the Royal Scientific Society (Jordan), Dr. Amit Kumar, an environmental engineer from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Mr. Manoj Matwal, a conservation and sustainability consultant from the Harela Society (India), and Dr.…

Atmospheric Forest is an immersive VR artwork by artist duo Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, visualising relations between forest emissions and climate change. It is based on Swiss climate scientist studies on ancient Alpine forests suffering from drought. The VR viewer gets immersed in a laser scanned forest with animated…

Our project is based on a 2000yrs Kaitiakitanga (active protectors, stewards, caretakers, and conservers) plan for Warawara forest. In this forest are ancient tree’s such as Kauri, local botanists suggest that these tree’s may have lived up to 2000yrs, so our virtual reality project is observing the forest over this…