Tamara Worzewski

The Bear is a non-profit organization to promote & develop The Art of Autobiographical Storytelling. We provide a dignified and professional setting for ordinary Berliners to share the extraordinary moments of their lives with as many people as possible, so this unifying effect can enfold. Celebrating 50 shows of true,…

FutureLearn built a community of practice for educators who needed to transition rapidly to remote teaching during the coronavirus pandemic. We built the course with the aim of both supporting emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 and laying sustainable foundations for the longer-term shift to online education. Starting as an idea…

Julia Leduc, co-founder and CEO of Anymate Me, explains why her start up Anymate me is the future of Video Production for academic and corporate training. Anymate Me is a science-oriented deep tech start-up based in Germany. Our mission is to revolutionize linear, costly and time-consuming video production and editing…

While nature builds all her organic materials from CO₂, the stability and inertness of the CO₂ molecule prevents its use in chemical technology. The team of Leitner searches for catalysts as molecular tools to break through this wall. Together with the company Covestro, they developed a catalytic process to incorporate…

There is a need to enable stable and persistent energy sources for integrated electronics and technologies operating in any strategic environment inaccessible to humans. Francesca Cova is developing a battery prototype based on the light-mediated conversion of radioactive decay energies into electricity, exploiting record-efficient scintillating nanoarchitectures.

Benoit Schillings: Breaking the Wall to Invention Machines – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Generative artificial intelligence models are beginning to play a crucial role in automating creative tasks, enhancing simulations, improving content creation, enabling personalised user experiences, and revolutionising various industries. However, these advancements also bring ethical concerns, such…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a fundamental part of modern medical research and practises, while the overall standards to regulate the use of AI are still being defined. This session will discuss the benefits of AI for research and healthcare, e.g., diagnostic accuracy, alongside the risks and obstacles related…

Nominated by: Jessica Gallagher, University of Adelaide Presented by: Lewis Dunnigan

Two corotating vortices, joined together by a slender vortical bridge, drift through an enormous aquarium. Shining through the water’s surface, an expanded laser beam transforms the vortex pair into a moving lens that upwardly projects two black holes encircled by shimmering halos. Vortices may collide with one another (as in…

Marie Louise Conradsen is Head of Open Science at Aarhus University (Denmark). Since 2016, she has led the university’s use of “open innovation in science” as a new model for IP-free industry collaboration – within several research areas incl. material sciences, food, drug discovery and carbon capture. The Open Discovery…