ERC at Falling Walls & Berlin Science Week
Event highlights
Berlin Science Week:
6 November 2021, 18:00 – 19:30
The Transformative Effect of Science
A joint event of the Berlin University alliance and the European Research Council
With Maria LEPTIN, ERC President, amongst the speakers
ERC grantees : Matthias RILLIG, Susanne SCHREIBER, Begüm DEMIR, Surjo SOEKADAR.
Followed by public discussion via livestream and on-site for invited guests at the Berlin Musuem of Natural History.
Watch the recording of the event:
Falling Walls Conference:
8 November 2021, 9:00 – 9:50
Falling Walls Circle – Plenary Table: Translating Science into Medical Application
With Maria LEPTIN, ERC President and Uğur ŞAHIN, CEO of BioNTech and ERC grantee amongst the speakers
8 November 2021, 10:30 – 11:00
Press opportunity with Maria LEPTIN - open to media at Falling Walls (see press contacts below)
Sessions with ERC speakers
8 November 2021
9.00 – 10.00
Volkswagenstiftung Symposium for Breakthroughs in Social Sciences and Humanities: Panel 1 – Creativity and Originality
Livestream & Radialsystem, Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin
With ERC grantee Sabina LEONELLI
10:00 – 11:00
Volkswagenstiftung Symposium for Breakthroughs in Social Sciences and Humanities: Panel 2 – Methods, Resources and Research Formats
Livestream & Radialsystem, Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin
With ERC grantee Elena ESPOSITO
10:00 – 11:00
Charité Symposium for Breakthroughs in Life Sciences – Breaking the Wall to Replicating SARS-COV-2 Polymerase
Livestream & Studio C Radialsystem, 4. Floor
With ERC grantee Patrick CRAMER
11:00 – 11:50
Falling Walls Circle – Round Table: New Batteries for Europe’s Green New Deal
Livestream & Radialsystem, Riverbank
With ERC grantee Clare GREY
11:00 – 11:30
Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Symposium for Breakthroughs in Physical Sciences – Integrated Ion-Trap Quantum Processors
Livestream & Studio A Radialsystem, 5th Floor
With ERC grantee Christian OSPELKAUS
12:00 – 13:00
Charité Symposium for Breakthroughs in Life Sciences – Breaking the Wall to Restoring Vision for Retinal Degeneration
Livestream & Studio C Radialsystem, 4. Floor
With ERC grantee José-Alain SAHEL
14:00 – 14:40
Charité Symposium for Breakthroughs in Life Sciences – Breaking the Wall of Regenerative Approaches to Treating Diabetes
Livestream & Studio C Radialsystem, 4. Floor
With ERC grantee Heiko LICKERT
15:40 – 16:10
Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Symposium for Breakthroughs in Physical Sciences – Novel Operando Methods for Following Battery Function and Failure
Livestream & Studio A. Radialsystem, 5th Floor
With ERC grantee Clare GREY
17:00 – 17:30
Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Symposium for Breakthroughs in Physical Sciences – The Breakthrough 2021: Light Emission from Hexagonal Silicon Germanium
Livestream & Studio A. Radialsystem, 5th Floor
With ERC grantee Erik BAKKERS
9 November 2021
9:45 – 10:00
Breaking the Walls to Restoring Vision for Retinal Degeneration
Livestream & Lecture Hall Radialsystem, Ground Floor
With ERC grantee José-Alain SAHEL
10:15 – 10:30
Breaking the Wall to Wireless Medical Robots inside Our Body
Livestream & Lecture Hall Radialsystem, Ground Floor
With ERC grantee Metin SITTI
11.45 – 12.00
Breaking the Wall to Light-Emitting Silicon
Livestream & Lecture Hall Radialsystem, Ground Floor
With ERC grantee Erik BAKKERS
12.10 – 12.25
Breaking the Wall to Next-Generation Batteries
Livestream & Lecture Hall Radialsystem, Ground Floor
With ERC grantee Clare GREY
14:30 – 14:45
Breaking the Wall of an Algorithm-Based Society
Livestream & Lecture Hall Radialsystem, Ground Floor
With ERC grantee David STARK
15:00 – 15:15
Breaking the Wall to Computational Expressivity in Music Performance
Livestream & Lecture Hall Radialsystem, Ground Floor
With ERC grantee Gerhard WIDMER
17:00– 17:15
Breaking the Wall to Biohybrid Synapses
Livestream & Lecture Hall Radialsystem, Ground Floor
With ERC grantee Francesca SANTORO
ERC-funded Falling Walls Finalists:
- Chase BEISEL, Falling Walls Life Sciences Finalist
- Paola PICOTTI, Falling Walls Life Sciences Finalist
- Daniel AHMED, Falling Walls Engineering and Technology Finalist
- Juan Ignacio CIRAC, Falling Walls Physical Sciences Finalist
ERC grantees attending the summit:
- Uğur ŞAHIN, CEO of BioNTech
- Sabina LEONELLI, Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter
- Elena ESPOSITO, Professor of Sociology at the University Bielefeld and the University of Bologna
- Patrick CRAMER, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- José-Alain SAHEL, Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, director of the UPMC Eye Center, and the Eye and Ear Foundation Chair of Ophthalmology
- Heiko LICKERT, Director of the Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research at Helmholtz Center Munich and Chair of Beta Cell Biology at the Technical University Munich
- Clare GREY, Royal Society Research Professor
- Metin SITTI, Director at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- Erik BAKKERS, Professor at the physics departments of both the Eindhoven and Delft Universities of Technology
- David STARK, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University
- Gerhard WIDMER, Head of the Institute of Computational Perception at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, and deputy director of the AI Lab at the Linz Institute of Technology
- Francesca SANTORO, Head of the ‘Tissue Electronics’ lab at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
- Christian OSPELKAUS, Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig
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