Mayumi Madhushani Manamperi Hettige

The Future of AI in the Industrial and Physical World Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. As technology advances, artificial intelligence…

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!

Better medicines faster by automated design. The project integrates constructive artificial intelligence (AI) into the pharmaceutical drug development progress. The central theme is to transfer decision making from the human science manager to a machine intelligence that generates novel molecules with desired properties from scratch. We devise suitable algorithms and…

The nominating institute Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the breakthrough: Mouncey’s Joint Genome Institute has partners worldwide to facilitate access to groundbreaking genomic technologies. These characterise plants and microbes and their environmental interactions, and ultimately address grand challenges in bioenergy, nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry. Through community collaborations, the JGI team…

Hydrogen Energy – Powering Climate Neutrality Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending the spotlight to world-leading scientists, science strategists and policy-makers from academia, business and politics discuss how we can apply science, research and innovation to get the world moving again. It is becoming increasingly clear that the world’s energy…

The nominating institution UZH on the breakthrough: Human reproduction developed from a matter of chance to a matter of choice to a matter of design. Latest developments suggest that CRISPR technology will usher in a new era of technologically mediated reproduction. The work examines the interrelation and interaction between normative…

Anissa Zouzaf is tackling the challenge of broken barrier cells in individuals with psoriasis and IBD, leading to persistent health issues. Her innovative approach involves programming macrophages, the body’s large eater cells, to enhance their reparative capacity and rebuild damaged skin and gut barriers, offering potential drug candidates to transform…

I tell the story of the NASA Space Pen in 60 seconds. It starts out by saying “What you’ve been told about the NASA Space Pen is a lie”

Science Talks Africa is a platform aimed at creating a vibrant community of African scientists through conversation and collaboration. We host weekly science talks with experts in various science fields around current science topics and African perspectives to global scientific issues. Tags: Citizen Science, Digital Health, Digitalisation, Diversity, Education, Global…

ImBlaze enables schools to offer equitable access to social capital & real world learning at scale. ImBlaze is an EdTech platform built by Big Picture Learning, with the mission of disrupting traditional secondary education to allow for the adoption of real world learning as a core part of school. ImBlaze…