Five questions to a Nobel Laureate: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Akshat Rathi's interview series continues.Akshat Rathi's interview series continues.
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Five questions to a Nobel Laureate: Dan Shechtman
How much sleep do you need and does it affect your work? On a normal day, I go to sleep at about 11pm and wake up at about 5.45am. When I’m travelling, I don’t have jet lag. I just sleep when I can. Are you addicted to something? Science cannot be the answer Many […]
Ageing, God and Lindau: An Interview with Aaron Ciechanover
Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover is talking about medical progress and its implications.
„We are beginning to understand how cognition works“: Double interview with John O’Keefe and Edvard Moser
Two 2014 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine about childhood, dream jobs and the next big thing in neuroscience.
Interview: Ghada Bassioni, Global Scientist
From young scientist to honorary guest in only two years – find out how Ghada Bassioni took the chances the Lindau Meeting offered her.
An Interview With A Young Researcher: Bettina Keller
On the boat trip to Mainau Island Noble Laureate Steven Chu takes part in a lively conversation with young scientist Bettina Keller at the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
Interview with Hartmut Michel: on biofuels, Max Planck
Harmut Michel won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1988 „for the determination of the structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre“, which helped reveal details of one of nature’s most useful processes. In 2012, Michel wrote an editorial titled „The Nonsense of Biofuels“ in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a leading chemistry journal. He argued that […]
Living in Lindau – Video blogger Núria Sancho Oltra
Soon we will reach the end of our stay in Lindau, where we experienced sunshine and thunderstorms. But the title is not referring to that. The case mentioned in this article deals with a participant, for who Lindau became home over the period of this meeting. But lets start in the beginning. To spread out […]
‘Videos with a personality, flow and message’
After learning about the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau through an online science video collection, Edson Filho will now be behind the camera making films himself as a video blogger at this year’s meeting. His path to this point — like his research in sport and exercise psychology — can be summed up in a […]
Heather Gray: chaotic starts and Higgs excitement
Heather Gray, a researcher working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN, was at this year’s Lindau meeting. I spoke to her over email before it started to find out about her expectations, and afterwards she told me about her impressions of the meeting and what it was like to watch the announcement from CERN with other […]
Lindau through the eyes of the meeting’s organizer
It’s cool enough to experience the Lindau meeting as one of the young researchers (or as one of the bloggers, as it happens). But there’s nothing that broadens your mind like a change of perspective. At my last Lindau meeting, I was fortunate enough to see Lindau through the eyes of a Nobel laureate. This […]
Die Phasen-Transformation des Dan Shechtman
„Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass es jedem Laureaten so geht“, meint Dan Shechtman. Mit dem Anruf aus Stockholm veränderte sich sein Leben – instantan. „Eine Phasen-Transformation.“ Bei diesen Worten denke ich sofort: ‚Aha, sicher vom Wissenschaftler zum Handlungsreisenden der Wissenschaft.’ Aber das trifft die Sache nicht. Shechtmans Augen blitzen und er sagt: „Endlich werde […]