Meri Iskandaryan

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Brooke Smith, jury member of the science engagement category at Falling Walls Science Summit 2022. She talked about her role as Director of Public Engagement with Science at Kavli Foundation, her passion…

How Polar Exploration Propels Climate Research To New Levels Over the past years international teams of scientists have been undertaking fundamental on-the-ground research in the planet’s polar regions to document the changes that are occurring and gain a better understanding of global climate change. A recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…

How Evolutionary Biology Explains Why we Get Sick Medical research has focused, properly and powerfully, on how the body works and what part of the mechanism is awry in a person who has a disease. Evolutionary medicine adds a whole new perspective by asking a new question: Why has natural…

Fusion is a nuclear reaction that combines two light nuclei, producing energy; fusion reactions power stars like our sun. Producing energy from fusion would provide a carbon-free, clean, safe, and abundant source of electricity. Net energy production from fusion requires that the reactions occur in a ‘plasma’ hotter than the…

Professor Marcus Mall is chair of the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. He is a physician-scientist and specialist in pediatric pulmonology and one of the founding directors of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL). His research focusses on cystic fibrosis,…

Fiberhouse is an informal research and education center located in Asheville, NC. Partnering with farmers, artists, designers, fiber folks, and scientists we are studying soil to soil methods – creating cloth that heals together. We facilitate hands-on workshops and learning experiences for people of all ages and backgrounds in-person and…

Life is built from proteins, like the cells in our skin, hair, eyes, and also viruses. We have developed am approach to exploit the quantum properties of proteins to translate them to sound, and use it to better understand biomaterials, and treat diseases. Based on the similarities between the structure…

Interferometers are instruments that extract information from the interference of waves in order to perform precise measurements. They are widely used in science and industry, with applications ranging from quantum physics to bio-medicine, as well as astronomy, chemistry and optometry. Nathalie Picqué is a research group leader at the Max-Planck…

Salah El Sadi wants to provide clean water for irrigation by using unique biofilters to purify water from nitrates and other contaminants without using any chemical additives or energy.

Whether we’re analysing a pandemic, calculating people’s life expectancy, organizing health insurance, collecting patient responses to new therapies or whether we’re just making an appointment in a doctor’s office: Our health is closely connected to data. But how can we properly use this trove of data in order to develop…