Simon Gröblacher

PRESENTED BY Clemens Lieberwirth NOMINATED BY University of Rostock Tags: Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing

The nominating institution CSIRO on the breakthrough: Work experience is key in the transition from high school to work, but barriers to access limit the opportunity for many students. This Program provides a safe, online collaboration platform through which research agencies, government and business offer genuine scientific work experience to…

Iain Couzin is Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and of the Excellence Cluster “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” at the University of Konstanz, Germany. His work aims to reveal the fundamental principles that underlie evolved collective behavior and he studies a wide range…

In a project funded by the Federal Foreign Office, our students designed a collection of board games. Each game transforms a different aspect of politics into a board game. All board games are available as Print-and-Play PDF versions, all source files are available under a Creative Commons license, for easy…

MAD-learn is Mobile App Development for every classroom. This web-based tool empowers any teacher—not just technology teachers—to engage students in app development, from a book review app in English class to a drawing app in Art class. Using the design-thinking process, MAD-learn prepares today’s students for tomorrow’s careers. Students use…

How is it possible that a bird is able to perform some of the same tasks as a chimpanzee, or even a human? This should be impossible, at least on a cognitive level, given everything we have learned about the brain in the last century. According to a long-held theory,…

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…

Dyllon Garth Randall developed a profit-making opportunity for wastewater treatment. Using his technology, salts can be filtered out of the water and subsequently sold on, meaning that the investment pays for itself.

Every weekend two registered members are selected to engage each other in Africa’s first ever virtual quiz tagged “SCIENCE BATTLE OF BRAINS ” in a face to face encounter on zoom video conferencing application (temporarily due to Covid 19 lockdown).Other members from all across Africa also connect from their homes…

How fast-charging batteries work and why they matter In order for the European Union to achieve its goal of zero net emissions by 2050, the speed at which devices can be charged needs to increase significantly. Clare Grey, Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, sees her work as an important…