Since winning the Breakthrough of the Year 2023 Award in the Art & Science category, Elaine Chew has been invited to serve on its jury.
Elaine attends the 2026 Falling Walls Science Summit, which took place 6-9 November in Berlin — four exhilarating and science affirming days in the company of over 2000 extraordinary attendees.
The programme ranged from Marc Abrahams’ recap of the Ig Nobels to inspiring presentations on the future of medicine to brilliant Breakthrough talks – falling-walls.com/breakthroughs – to tackling tough questions like who funds the future.
As usual, what a gathering of so many incredible individuals; I even discovered King’s College London Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences colleague Mairi Sakellariadou who was a Falling Walls Circle speaker this year!
Big thanks to the Falling Walls Foundation organisers who have outdone themselves!
Last but not least, thanks to Hanna Siemaszko (SciLux podcast host) and Malte Cox (podcast host of the student-run Menschlich, preparing an audio Advent Calendar) for cogent interviews – coming soon!
* Alm, Aschenbrenner, Baraban, Berron, Bornstein, Brönstrup, Bullinger, Daniel, Debette, Dimmeler, Gerhardt, Gerstung, Hansen, Höpken, Iron, Korbel, Koutsouleris, Kramarz, Lickert, Lin, Marijon, Marr, Seitz, Rybniker, Sander, Schultze, Skipper, Speidel, Synofzik, Vogel-Claussen, Zeiher
