For 75 years, the
Lindau Nobel Laureate
Meetings have enabled
scientific and personal
exchange between
generations, disciplines,
and cultures.
Nobel Laureate and Lindau Alumnus Morten Meldal is optimistic about the future. He trusts that science can provide solutions to today’s challenges and that young researchers, like those he meets in Lindau, will help lead the green transition.
Lindau Alumna Sarah McKee was motivated by the Mainau Declaration 2024 on Nuclear Weapons and surrounding discussions with Nobel Laureate David Gross to change the track of her career, to make a difference. Sarah now works at PRIF in Frankfurt in the field of space arms control.
Lindau Alumnus Lukas Porz participated in the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 2015. Conversations with Nobel Laureates Steven Chu, Stefan Hell, and W.E. Moerner had a significant impact on his career – first in academia, then after transitioning into business and management with his start-up Illutherm.
When Lindau Alumnus Morten Meldal met Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine in Lindau 1986, it influenced his scientific thinking ever since. As Nobel Laureate, Morten Meldal returns to Lindau to an amazing mixture of social contact and science – and a philosophical approach that will shape scientific thinking across generations.
Lindau Alumna Amanda Randles, 2023 ACM Prize in Computing, participated in the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 2012. Her conclusion: “Lindau can bring people and ideas together in ways that wouldn’t happen anywhere else.”
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.
Nobel Laureate Omar M. Yaghi and five Young Scientists at #LINO75 explore what it takes to make scientific discovery accessible to all – and why talent alone is not enough without opportunity. This post summarizes Omar M. Yaghi’s Lecture and the panel he moderated during #LINO75.
Seventy-one years after Nobel Laureates issued the historic Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, the threat of nuclear war is once again growing. At #LINO75, three Nobel Laureates examined the risks of a new arms race and AI-driven escalation.
Odilia, a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley explores how the brain navigates decision-making and the effects of psychedelics on behaviour. The #LINO75 participant shares what drives her curiosity, why reproducibility matters, and her vision for the future of neuroscience.
What makes a scientific problem worth pursuing for forty years? Two #LINO75 sessions explored the Quantum universe.
Jana Braunger is developing machine learning methods to better understand how genes shape cellular behaviour. She shares her path into computational biology.
At #LINO75, Nobel Laureates and Young Scientists explored the dimensions of understanding, from scientific intuition and unexpected discoveries to AI and trust. Can a machine ever truly understand? this is the question experts attempted to answer during the panel.
Nobel Laureate Katalin Karikó’s path to the mRNA breakthrough was marked by rejection, setbacks and decades of research in a field few believed in. In her #LINO75 Lecture, she looked back on that remarkable journey.
Rayhane Nchioua’s research explores the fascinating arms race between pandemic viruses and the human immune system, and how understanding it could help us prepare for future outbreaks.
Lottie from Australia is a PhD graduate at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, where the Lindau Alumna investigates communication impairments in rare genetic childhood dementia disorders.
Camilla from Denmark is a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, where the #LINO75 Alumna studies the molecular machinery that enables plants to transport carbohydrates and interact with microbes.
Kin Israel Notarte reflects on the remarkable journey his career has taken since attending the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 2023. As he enters the final year of his PhD, he shares how his research, global network, and experiences in Lindau continue to shape his path as a scientist.
This year’s meeting featured a breathtaking range of conversations on life, with Laureates discussing everything from what preceded it and why it ends to where it exists and how to live it.
At the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, a panel on rebuilding trust in science focused on what scientists themselves can do to address the issue.
At #LINO75, speakers explored how the tried and tested framework for funding, conducting and sharing scientific knowledge is dramatically changing, and how scientists can guide this change for the better.
A Lecture on a cutting-edge field of chemistry and a panel of Young Scientists from underrepresented regions explored where science is headed – and where it should go.
How can peace, freedom, and democratic values be defended in times of growing global uncertainty? Nobel Peace Laureates Ales Bialiatski, José Manuel Barroso, and Seung-soo Han discuss integrity, human rights, and the responsibility of international institutions in shaping a more peaceful future.
Can health truly transcend borders in an increasingly divided world? Nobel Laureates José Manuel Barroso, Katalin Karikó, and Morten Meldal discuss the future of global health, exploring scientific innovation, equitable access to healthcare, and the roles of politics, trust, and international cooperation in addressing global challenges.
From growing up in rural Hungary to receiving the Nobel Prize, Katalin Karikó reflects on a career shaped by curiosity, persistence, and setbacks. She explains how decades of mRNA research led to life-saving vaccines and offers inspiring advice to the next generation of scientists.
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.
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!
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.
