Sian Bayne

Nominated by: Thomas Montenegro-Johnson, University of Birmingham Presented by: John Terry

Municipal waste, which includes domestic rubbish (garbage) and some industrial and building waste, is usually consigned to landfills. These may vary from holes in the ground to engineered sites designed to protect the environment from pollution by run-off waters and leachates. Zahrat Al-Finjan landfill is located in Jenin Governorate. It.…

The nominating institution University of Innsbruck on the breakthrough: AQT is building upon 2 decades of European quantum research to now turn this know-how into a commercially successful company. Within one year of its first funding round AQT has managed to realize a first European quantum computer demonstrator, implemented cloud-access…

Nachtlichter (“Night Lights”) is an app that assists citizen scientists in creating outdoor lighting inventories on unprecedented spatial scales. The app was co-created by a team of German citizen scientists together with researchers at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences as part of the Helmholtz Association’s “Nachtlicht-BüHNE” project. While…

When we consider the capabilities of neuroprosthetics today and compare them to prostheses used only 50 years ago, we can only marvel at the level of advancements in surgery and engineering. New cutting-edge technologies that work to control the brain’s function have revolutionised the field and brought hope to millions…

Girls, especially in underserved populations and especially in rural areas, are faced with too many challenges when it comes to education and only few consider STEM careers as an option. In fact, due to social pressure, most of them drop school at an early age (around 57% drop out after…

Nominated by: Linköping University Presented by: Dr. Johannes Bintinger

Malaria deaths are rising, in part because the parasites which cause the disease are evolving resistance to our frontline drug treatments. Merryn Fraser argues that we need new ways to target these parasites and suggests taking advantage of essential biological pathways to deliver drugs directly to parasites, improving existing antimalarial…

Nominated by: BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Presented by: Anne Lamp

Ocean Solutions for the Climate Crisis – Falling Walls Circle Round Table 2023 This panel discussion will focus on ocean-centred climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions. The potential of the ocean for accelerating decarbonisation merits prioritisation in the global climate-change discourse. The ocean presents substantial climate mitigation and carbon storage…