Marcus Lobbes

Programming subjects has put tremendous mental pressure on the learners resulting in the emotional state of the learner being impacted. I have designed and developed a smart courseware known as explorelet to focus on learning object-oriented programming by emphasizing both the cognitive and affective domains. Explorelet provides a personalised and…

The Neuro-G Project engages in neuroscience education and advocacy in Nigeria, addressing challenges like dropout rates, science enrollment decline, lack of neuroscience background in secondary schools, gender disparity, misconceptions about neurological diseases, and scarcity of neuroscience professionals. Targets include secondary school students in remote or disadvantaged areas, victimized students, and…

Ayushi Chauhan aims to create a new generation of portable devices for the rapid detection of point mutations responsible for DR-TB. The assay is accessible, scalable, and suitable for high burden TB countries.

Yue Yuan is tackling the limitations in advanced electronic circuits using 2D materials by introducing a groundbreaking fabrication technique. By transferring multilayer hexagonal boron nitride onto silicon microchips, Yue Yuan achieves high-integration-density 2D-CMOS hybrid microchips for memristive applications, representing a notable advance in performance and technology readiness.

Nominated by: Australian National University Presented by: Mark Mattingley-Scott

With his GPS tech and field methodology, Jan Breinbauer is reducing around 30% of pesticides used in Chile.

Nominated by: BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Presented by: Liz Madaras

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation with Marius Brand, digital participants had the chance to discuss and ask questions. The interview series provided an intense personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the Falling Walls Science Summit 2021 focused on their individual research, career paths and experiences.…

By developing high-performance non-classical light sources and multi-photon interference, Jian-Wei Pan and his colleague Chao-Yang Lu together with their team have implemented boson sampling with up to 76 photons out of a 100-mode interferometer, which yields a Hilbert state space dimension of 10^30 and a rate that is 10^14 faster…

To overcome the inconvenience of finding lost items on campus, Marianne Chang proposes the use of a lost and found app to geotag the found items. Simple, convenient, and smart!