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Ben Feringa

Nobel Prize laureate and professor in chemistry, University of Groningen

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Ben Feringa - The Joy Of Discovery

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Steven Chu

Nobel Prize laureate and professor in Physics, Stanford university 

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Steven Chu Materials As An Enabling Technology In Getting To Net Zero GHG Emissions

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Caroline A. Ross 

Ford Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Caroline A. Ross - Magnets For Memories, Sensors And Com­mu­ni­ca­tions

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Leslie Schoop

Professor in chemistry, Princeton University 

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Leslie Schoop Can AI Discover New Materials (1)

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Michael Mayer

Professor in BioPhysics, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg

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Armi Tiihonen 

Assistant Professor, Chalmers University of Technology

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Armi Tiihonen - Developing Tailored Materials For Solar Cells Faster By Using AI And Automation In Lab­o­ra­to­ries

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Tomáš Jungwirth

Professor in Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences and University of Nottingham  

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Tomas Jungwirth Spintronics A New Paradigm In Digital Bits

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William DeGrado 

Professor, University of California San Francisco

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William Degrado De Novo Design Of Functional Proteins

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Sinéad Griffin 

Staff Scientist, Theory of Nanostructured Materials, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

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Sinead Griffin - Impossible Materials Discovery

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Nako Nakatsuka

Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Chemical Nanotechnology EPFL 

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Nako Nakatsuka Nan­otech­nolo­gies To Decode The Chemical Language Of The Brain (1)

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Sibylle Bauer

Director of Studies, Armament and Disarmament, at SIPRI

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Sibylle Bauer Peace And Security Impli­ca­tions Of Technology Development Responsible Research And Innovation As Upstream ...

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Emma Frans 

Senior Research Specialist, Karolinska Institutet, moderator 

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