Manuel Gómez, predoctoral researcher at CIQUS (research group of Professor Massimo Lazzari) will become tomorrow the first member of a Spanish university or national research center participating in the Falling Walls Lab Finale, He will talk about the process of nanofabrication polymers and their work with SERS substrates, recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Materials Today.
The Falling Walls Lab Finale on 8 November gathers the most outstanding candidates from an international field in Germany’s capital, Berlin. The winners will present their concepts at the Falling Walls Conference on the next day– together with some of the most distinguished scientists of our times.
Falling Walls Conference is an international meeting which starts tomorrow in Berlin to commemorate the fall of the wall, in order to discuss and share ideas that will enhance the social, economic and human progress through science. The first edition of the Falling Walls Conference was organized in 2009 to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall, and since then every year brings together Nobel laureates, representatives from academic and research institutions, and Managers involved in science policy trying to answer the big current and future challenges.
Celebrities like Angela Merkel (Chancellor and Federal Minister of Education and Research), the chairman of the Nobel Foundation, the editors of the journals Science and Nature, the president of the European Research Council (ERC) or scientist Stefan Hell (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014), are just some examples of participants who gathered in Berlin this weekend, among dozens of researchers from different disciplines covering engineering and experimental economics and human sciences will be given.
During the conference a forum for start-ups of scientific and technological base, a round table of strategies in science, and an event for students and young researchers, the Falling Walls Lab, will put in place, among others, launched in 2011, in which 100 proposals from around the world are chosen for their relevance and capacity to change, to be discussed before a panel of judges will select the top three.
A full scene of brilliant minds, in which they can share ideas, research projects or groundbreaking initiatives in order to support dialogue and international cooperation, and develop forms of communication in science that allow to solve the problems of current and future societies