Stefania Kapsetaki

How Advocacy and Activism Pave the Way for Rights and Dignity After more than 50 years of activity, Amnesty International does not slow down its commitment to promoting freedom and justice worldwide. It recently made headlines with reports on the human rights violations committed by Turkish authorities during the Gezi…

In celebration of #IYPT, we created a year-long campaign called #MyFaveElement. It centered around a series of short videos featuring a Berkeley Lab scientist describing their favorite element. One had a personal story of how understanding the structure of carbon triggered a lifelong love of chemistry. We then invited anyone…

Our group periodically visits those schools of Armenia that are far from Yerevan and these schools do not have a physics laboratory so that children can do different experiments and understand the lessons well. In our practice, there was such a case that one student, seeing us and our experiments,…

Impact of COVID-19: How has the pandemic affected how we do science? 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. The COVID-19 pandemic…

Prof. Marc Gruber is a leading researcher, focused on bringing new technology to market. He significantly advanced the practice of innovation with the Market Opportunity Navigator (co-developed with his PhD student Sharon Tal) – which helps in the highly critical phase of identifying the best markets for new technology. Launched…

Iain Couzin and his team discovered that there exist fundamental geometrical principles that apply across scales of biological organization, from the scale of neural interactions, to individual and collective decision-making. Specifically, their work revealed that animals’ brains cope with environmental complexity by spontaneously reducing the many options they face in…

Gendered Innovation and Multinational Corporations Julia Duwe, partner at Roland Berger, and Simone Menne, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, join Ruth Morgan in sharing their insights on the impact of the pandemic on gender equality and what they consider to be the key to innovation in…

According the hypotheses that plants can “communicate” among themselves, Olga Kisseleva is investigating the possibility of “eaves dropping” on this arboreal “dialogue,” and even taking part in it. This idea has given birth to the project in which trees can “communicate” on two levels: among themselves in the T2T (Tree…

ImmunoFeed is a company that plans to use artificial intelligence to predict the mutations a virus will acquire and produce a cheap edible duckweed vaccine in advance before viral zoonoses can occur.

How Neuroimmunology Develops New Strategies Against Brain Ageing and Degeneration Michal Schwartz’ studies revolutionized the current understanding of degenerative conditions of the central nervous system. Her theory broke the long-held dogma that immune cell entry to the brain should be completely blocked by a cellular wall, and shattered the understanding…