Alicia Asín, computer engineer and CEO of Spanish IT company Libelium, explains how the Internet of Things (IoT) can change our world, from solving parking problems in smart cities to helping farmers reduce their use of fertilisers and pesticides.
Astrophysicist Professor Dr. Jason Hessels, Chief Astronomer at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) at the University of Amsterdam, probes the expanse of deep space for extreme phenomena linked with neutron stars and black holes.
Learn how Dr Polona Itkin journeyed from a small village in Slovenia to the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, and an Arctic expedition on board an icebreaker to collect data for her work on snow and ice modelling to study climate change.
Dimos Dimarogonas, Professor of automatic control at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, is exploring ways to communicate with robots. This will help groups of robots to work together effectively without getting in each other’s way.
Mycelium – fine root-like threads produced by fungi – are amazing structures that we could one day use to ‘grow’ buildings, explains Phil Ayres, an architect, researcher and associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy’s School of Architecture.
Dr Aleksandra Walczak, physicist and research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, explains how our immune system works and why people vary in their response to coronavirus.
