Nadine Albrecht

PRESENTED BY Benjamin Federmann NOMINATED BY Technische Universität Dortmund, Centrum für Entrepreneuship & Transfer (CET) Tags: Logistics, Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Inventory Drone

COVID-19 has hit the NGO sector hard, with the closure of study centres and workshop facilities, compounded by uncertainty about future re-openings. For many organizations, the transition to offering classes and learning content online has been beset with challenges, as there are few affordable platforms with the necessary infrastructure to…

COVID-19 – Current Trends in Vaccine Research Falling Walls Circle Tables will give 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. Vaccinations provide a pathway to recovery from the…

Oxide glasses are an integral part of the modern world, but their usefulness can be limited by their characteristic brittleness at room temperature. Megan Cordill et al. show that amorphous aluminum oxide can permanently deform without fracture at room temperature and high strain rate by a viscous creep mechanism. These…

How Deep Learning Can Give Birth to General Artificial Intelligence From chessbots to chatbots and from search algorithms to industrial assembly machines – humanity has arrived at the age of machine intelligence; or at least machine work, if we take seriously a definition of intelligence as “the abilities to learn…

Drawing inspiration from the electrocardiogram, Prof Chen created a conformable electrode as a ‘communication’ device with plants to deliver reliable electrical signals to and from plants. This innovation in plant electronics leads to the first plant-based robot that can perform delicate tasks with superior power efficiency (10,000 times less than…

Under current assumptions we are slowly entering a period of major biodiversity loss with threats to the planet that are severe but difficult to perceive. The effects of human actions on the Earth’s ecosystem are well documented, but what if the scale and pace of species extinction and its consequences…

How Socio-Physics Shapes the Future of Smart Societies As the development of the internet of things is taking up speed, connected devices produce staggering amounts of data. Estimates say that by 2020, there will be 26 times more connected things than people – devices which will produce 400 zettabytes of…

Period poverty and period stigma impact the life of entire communities. The health of women and the environment are compromised as current solutions foment bacteria growth and are not compostable. Rebecca Cenzato proposes selling affordable and compostable sanitary pads made out of banana fibre and produced in rural mini-factories, while…

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.