Nkosana Masuku

Nominated by: Shikma Litmanovitz, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Presented by: Noam Hassidov

Carmen Noëlie Abla Eklou-Adegnoh suggests setting up well-equipped, solar-powered computer labs in rural areas from recycled containers. This way, students will receive ICT-relevant training to help their education and develop good ICT skills.

“Heroes of the planet” is a project consisting of educational content to teach kids of 9 to 12 years old about Climate Change. The course consists of animated videos telling stories with a main character (a child named Maywa) and the classical elements (earth, fire, water, wind) as secondary characters…

Genes responsible for antibiotic production are often silent in laboratory setups. Creating semi-natural competitive communities will force bacteria to activate these genes and produce new antibiotics.

The nominating institution Quantum Technologies on the breakthrough: Optical clocks are a promising application of quantum technology. When commercially available, they will unleash new applications: from synchronisation of IT networks to navigation to environmental sensing. Partners from industry, university and research institutes have joined forces to demonstrate the world’s first…

Ana Montalban-Arques’ novel therapeutic approach applies bacteria as a stand-alone therapy for colon cancer, a therapeutic approach that shows striking efficacy of bacteria as monotherapy.

The age of digitisation, ‘datification’, and ever smarter machines has opened up huge opportunities, from improving national security and healthcare to shopping and making travel plans. At the same time the combination of machine learning and massive data that is increasingly driving many of the automated decision-making systems that govern…

Nanotechnology is a promising therapeutic tool, but present implementations suffer from poor efficacy. My team and I are developing ultrasound-based micro/nanorobots with precise navigation capabilities that can overcome major limitations of existing nanodrugs. Ultrasound is safe, noninvasive, penetrates tissue, and is widely used in medicine, thus ultrasound-based propulsion will provide…

Current technologies from silicon chips to computer memory to mobile phone displays are all derived from the fundamental quantum properties of materials. Creating novel materials and manipulating their electronic arrangements is the key to harnessing quantum properties at a macro-level for revolutionary technological advances. Suchitra Sebastian, an experimental condensed matter…

Innovative materials called complex scattering media allow us to see objects even when hidden behind obstacles. Anwesh Bhattacharya is developing a new infrared camera that can break our invisibility for heat vision.