Year: 2019

Ada Yonath Avec Gisou Van Der Goot

Ada Yonath

Basic Sciences, Life Sciences/Health

“Next generation eco-friendly antibiotics and thoughts about origin of life“

Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

Conference held on December 17th, 2019

Ed Winters

Ed Winters

Life Sciences/Health, Sustainability/Environment

“The hidden costs of our food choices”

Ed Winters, co-founder and co-director of Surge

Conference held on December 16th, 2019

Giulia Galli

Giulia Galli

Computer Science, Sustainability/Environment

“Marveling at materials through in-silico lenses”

Giulia Galli, Liew Family professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of  Molecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago

Conference held on November 13th, 2019

Alessio Figalli

Alessio Figalli

Basic Sciences

“From optimal transport to soap bubbles and clouds: a personal journey“

Alessio Figalli, mathematician and laureate of the 2018 Fields Medal

Conference held on November 11th, 2019

Joris Zufferey

Hiroshi Amano

Basic Sciences, Sustainability/Environment

“Gallium nitride (GaN) as a key material for establishing a sustainable society”

Hiroshi Amano, physicist, engineer and inventor

Conference held on October 14th, 2019

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Basic Sciences, Computer Science

“Algorithms to Live By”

Authors of Algorithms to Live By, The Computer Science Of Human Decisions

Conference held on October, 7th, 2019

Fiona Watt at EPFL

Fiona Watt

Life Sciences/Health

“Exploring heterogeneity of human skin cells”

Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), King’s College London

Conference held on 27 September 2019

Conférence de Yuval Noah Harari à l'EPFL

Yuval Noah Harari

Culture/Society, Innovation, Life Sciences/Health, Politics

Conversation with Yuval Noah Hariri

Historian, philosopher and bestselling author 

Conference held on July 10th, 2019

Stephen Quake

Stephen Quake

Basic Sciences, Innovation

“A cell is a bag of RNA“

Stephen Quake, Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University

Conference held on July 3rd, 2019

Richard Baldwin

Richard Baldwin

Economy/Finance, Engineering

“The Globotics Upheaval: globalization, robotics, and the future of work“

Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Conference held on May 15th, 2019

Klaus von Klitzing

Klaus von Klitzing

Basic Sciences

Conversation with Klaus von Klitzing

Laureate of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics

Conference held on April 15th, 2019

Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter

Basic Sciences

“Science, Reality, Credibility“

Saul Perlmutter, professor of physics. Laureate of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

Conference held on April 8th, 2019

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Basic Sciences

Conversation with Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Researcher and co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Conference held on March 6th, 2019