Sigurdur Gislason

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…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Shankar Balasubramanian. He talked about his role as Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, his pioneering work on genome sequencing and the practical implications of his research.…

In the 1930s, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a “New Deal” policy to overcome the Great Depression. Less than 100 years later, the world is facing an even more global challenge: the climate crisis. In this Falling Walls Plenary Table, our international panelists ask whether this requires an equally…

Lorena Neira Ramírez developed a low-cost material to maximize the area coralline algae can grow upon. Facilitating a settlement substrate helps marine ecosystems capture carbon faster and more efficiently.

Our new detector records the full position-momentum phase space for all electrons scattered through a sample, and ptychographic reconstruction algorithms solve the samples atomic structure. Our algorithms inversely solve for the multiple scattering of the electron beam and overcome the lens aberrations. For the first time, the resolution is set…

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Mariëlle van Kooten won second place at the Falling Walls Lab Finale 2019. Her app unites scientists and the general public through simple images, enabling the inspection of complex, large-scale data to improve human health.

In cities, dragonflies are susceptible to falling into ecological traps of polarized light. Claudia Patricia Mamani Medina argues that we can help their conservation by detecting and camouflaging potential ecological traps in urban elements.

Corona Immunitas brought together all swiss public health institutes in an unprecedented way. Fundraising attracted public & private supporters that share the goal of providing high-quality evidence for decision-makers in the current pandemic. Key pillars are a culture of trust, aligned goals, an OS policy, professional governance & project management.

To measure the magnetic moment of the muon to unprecedented precision in the search for new fundamental particles and forces that may contribute to the muon’s internal magnetism. By producing copious numbers of subatomic muon particles in a powerful accelerator, a precise measurement of the muon spin precession and the…