For 75 years, the
Lindau Nobel Laureate
Meetings have enabled
scientific and personal
exchange between
generations, disciplines,
and cultures.
Participating in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting as a student, Thomas found Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell as his Ph.D. supervisor, and Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips as his mentor.
Michel Devoret met his scientific hero in Lindau 50 years ago. This summer, he returns as the 2025 Nobel Laureate in Physics, ready to ecourage a new class of Young Scientists that there room in science for them – and for everyone.
Lindau Alumnus Enrique Lin Shiao shares how advice he received from Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie led to a postdoc position in the lab 2020 Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna. Enrique now leads the search and evaluation team at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Lindau Alumna Lučka Bibič learned at the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 2022 that pure science and creative communication can be combined – through inspiring discussion with Nobel Laureate Ben Feringa and fellow Young Scientists.
After conversations in Lindau in 2018, Lindau Alumnus David Niyukuri shifted his research focus to malaria, built a small lab through connections he made here, and now is a researcher at the University of Burundi and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Science and indeed society are entering a new era shaped by quantum technologies and artificial intelligence. #LINO26 will explore how these technologies are reshaping both knowledge and the meaning of understanding itself.
Presentation of the initiative on Mainau Island on 4 July 2025 Promoting Equity and Wellness in Academia Resilient Global Scientific Community The Formal and Hidden Career Curriculum Sustainable Dialogue Across Generations and
Young Scientists at the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting explored creative, ethical, and inclusive approaches to science communication.
Unathi Thango shared her thoughts about the #LINOecon week during the Closing Ceremony.
Simon H. Johnson, 2024 Laureate in Economic Scienes looks back on some of his highlights from the recent 2025 Lindau Meeting and shares his advice to budding economists.
In a heartfelt farewell address at the #LINO25 Closing Ceremony, Simon Nirenberg reflected on the inspiring week in Lindau.
Nobel Laureate Moungi G. Bawendi enjoyed the spirit of optimism and enthusiasm he experienced during the Lindau Meeting. He left Lake Constance with new hope for the future.
This year’s Economics Laureates illuminate the forces behind economic growth, showing how new ideas and creative destruction together sustain the remarkable economic progress we often take for granted.
Explore the scientific journey that led to our modern understanding of regulatory T cells: the immune system’s crucial peacekeepers, and understand why this work was announced to be awarded with a Nobel Prize.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrates three scientists who created a new class of cavity-forming molecules capable of capturing substances like carbon dioxide or pharmaceuticals, opening the door to powerful practical applications.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for bringing quantum physics from the subatomic world onto a chip.
Dipa Ghindani, 2024 Lindau Alumna, describes how the Physics Meeting changed her perspective, drive, and confidence as a scientist.
After #LINO25, Alumna Sajal Arwish says nothing felt the same: the uniquely friendly, one-to-one exchanges with Nobel Laureates – from a panel on circular chemistry & sustainability to a Science Walk with Sir Stanley Whittingham – were truly life-changing.
A recap of three perspectives on security in the age of AI, shared at #LINOecon this summer, concludes our blog series covering the Economics Meeting.
Global Challenges: Hunger, Climate, and the Cost of Inaction. At the 2025 Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences, David Beasley warned that hunger and forced migration fuel global instability. In a high-level panel, economists like Lars Peter Hansen and Joseph Stiglitz call for pragmatic climate action, fair carbon pricing, and global cooperation.
It is a decade since the UN adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and this session will focus on the contribution of chemistry to achieving these goals. The panel is to discuss how chemistry research is contributing to overcoming challenges from climate and energy to environment and health.
From a lot of badges in his office to the synthesis and light lab. Ben Feringa received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”. Visit his Nobel Lab 360° to find out more about his ground-breaking research!
Discover the Nobel Poster Series 2025 highlighting scientific breakthroughs awarded with the last year’s Nobel Prize. Inspired by groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics, the immune system, organometallic chemistry, and technological innovation, this powerful poster collection fuses science, creativity, and visual storytelling.
The session that kicked-off the #LINOecon Scientific Programme revolved around some of the fundamental questions affecting research and innovation in today’s world: Which are the links between curiosity-driven research, innovation, and prosperity? Among the high-ranked panelists was Mario Draghi, former Prime Minister of the Italian Republic and former President of the European Central Bank.
In 2024, John Jumper became the youngest Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in the past 70 years. In 2025 at #LINO25, he took the stage in Lindau to share insights into solving the long-standing challenge of protein folding.
A short documentary film commemorates the 70th anniversary of the first visit of a Peace Nobel Laureate to a Lindau Meeting. Albert Schweitzer’s visit in 1954 not only marked a new epoch for the Meetings but also had a profound impact on some of the 20th-century’s leading physicists that were assembled in Lindau.
