Tiny but mighty: Quantum dots are being used to improve and refine the colours that we can see in television sets and in lighting. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 is awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov for the discovery and development of these particles.
The German singer and songwriter Marius Müller-Westernhagen recently received his Certificate of Induction into the Honorary Senate of the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Nobel Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier attended the ceremony in Berlin.
Claudia Goldin will receive the Economics Prize for her pioneering research that explained why gender differences in earnings and employment rates had changed over time.
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier will receive the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contribution to attosecond physics.
Lindau Alumna Chryso Th. Pallari is conducting research in the fields of epidemiology, infectious diseases, and public health.
Shatarupa Bhattacharya focuses on the genetic disorder thalassemia as well as on blood-borne infectious diseases such as malaria and toxoplasmosis. She shared her #LINO23 experiences and reviewed her career as a female scientist from India.
Lindau Alumnus Polat Goktas participated in the Physics Meeting 2016. Learn more about his experiences in Lindau and his professional odyssey, taking him from Ankara to the corridors of Harvard Medical School, and eventually leading him to the historic beauty of Dublin, focusing on various fields of artificial intelligence.
Greta studies how the critically important bacterial pathogen, Klebsiella pneumoniae, evolves inside human hosts during colonisation and infection and explores it can improve its biofilm formation.
Julia Gensheimer studies T cell development from hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells at UCLA. She hopes the findings will influence regenerative medicine and therapies for age-related diseases.
On Friday, 6 October 2023, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Narges Mohammadi "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all".
On Thursday, 5 October 2023, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature to Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
Our eyes are constantly moving, allowing us to process the world around us. Avi studies the eye movements we make as we move around our natural world and in environments like virtual reality. She is one of the "Women in Research" portrayed in the blog series by Ulrike Böhm.
