Simone Burel

The nominating institution William Marsh Rice University on the project: Prof. Richard Baraniuk is a visionary pioneer in open education, launching OpenStax in 1999 to improve educational access and learning for everyone. OpenStax has disrupted a broken textbook market, saving students $1.2 billion since 2012. Since COVID-19, demand for these…

Science Communication in Crisis – Could we do better? Falling Walls Circle Tables are lending 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. While the world has been battling…

Ayhay is a Montessori-inspired for-profit and national accredited primary school that provides quality education for children in Madagascar with affordable tuition and local Montessori materials.

PRESENTED BY Shunsuke Ishimoto NOMINATED BY  Tohoku University

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…

The nominating institute EPFL on the breakthrough: Reward-based learning underlies important aspects of human and animal behavior, and recent advances reveal detailed understanding of the underlying neuronal mechanisms in mice. Precise optical and electrophysiological measurements, optogenetic perturbations and computational analyses uncover fundamental mechanisms of brain function during simple forms of…

Over the past decade, the play2PREVENT Lab, using components of social and emotional learning and character development, has developed novel and ground-breaking methods and systems for developing and evaluating videogame interventions, with the input of adolescents at every step of the process, demonstrating significant engagement and impact in the areas…

Since its beginnings almost half a century ago, gene sequencing has become indispensable for basic biological research. Thanks to new techniques, tens of thousands of genomes have been sequenced to this day, including the human genome. Traditionally, the process relied on analyzing dozens of DNA fragments in individual reactions. Shankar…

Michèle Lamont explained how destigmatization happens on a societal level and how particular strategies may help marginalized groups to achieve greater inclusivity. At the same time, she asked all of us to broaden our conception of how inclusion is created and to participate in making spaces for more inclusion.

José Manuel Rojas Díaz is working on addressing the high mortality rate of cervical cancer in Mexican women by developing a novel technology called BiKE (bispecific killer cell engager). This technology is designed to target a specific tumour marker, recruiting and stimulating immune cells (NK cells) to enhance the antitumour…