Thomas Frederik Hellmann

The Neuro-G Project engages in neuroscience education and advocacy in Nigeria, addressing challenges like dropout rates, science enrollment decline, lack of neuroscience background in secondary schools, gender disparity, misconceptions about neurological diseases, and scarcity of neuroscience professionals. Targets include secondary school students in remote or disadvantaged areas, victimized students, and…

Nominated by: JST – Japan Science and Technology Agency Presented by: Amane Kimura

While digital media offer the opportunity for people of all walks of life to gain access to essential information, digital literacy is a necessary component of achieving an informed citizenry. From public health info to active political engagement, knowing how to find and interpret reliable information online is essential. While…

This is a podcast where I get to talk with various people (Africans) in the STEM field. They talk passionately about the research and projects and how it is contributing to society. Also, I allow them to provide me with a back story of who they are and why they…

Cell Block Science (CBS) brings informal science learning to the learning centres of 6 Scottish prisons, and provides a platform for researchers to develop confidence and skills in engagement. Researchers, in collaboration with a project officer, develop and deliver individual sessions, and engagement between sessions is sustained through popular science…

How Computational Neuroscience Can Decode Thoughts and Actions When we look at a landscape, listen to a song or recall a memory, what is the exact choreography taking place across the various areas of the brain? – One of the most challenging aspects about the human brain is the question…

Maltiti Mohammed is addressing the environmental and human health impacts of plastic waste in Ghana by proposing a sustainable solution – a clothing and accessories company that exclusively uses recycled plastic. By melting and extruding plastic into filaments, then turning them into yarn for fabric production, his project aims to…

The key principles are to promote data-driven, inter-disciplinary approaches to social sciences and the humanities, foster academic research that involves the genuine participation (through co-design) of local communities, industry and government, and to develop innovative courses at Undergraduate and Masters Level that attracts a wide spectrum of learners at key…

The nominating institution Philips Healthcare on the breakthrough: Vascular disease in children refers to a variety of illnesses that affect blood vessels in the body. Assessment of severity and risk is often done by MRI, or with catheters with contrast injection. This is invasive, costly, and limited by the imaging…

How Neuroscience Explains The Rise of Experience from the Brain Over the last years, much has been learned about the neuronal basis of consciousness in the brain. Together with a recently developed Integrated Information Theory of consciousness, this progress raises the possibility that science will soon come to grips with this most…