Wrocław Falling Walls Lab 2023 awarded!
Dr Anna Siekierka from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology is the winner of this year’s Wrocław Falling Walls Lab. Her project concerned the recovery of energy from batteries.
Processing used batteries and accumulators requires a large amount of energy, and recycling them is difficult due to the fact that they contain toxic elements. Dr Anna Siekierka proposes the use of reverse electrodialysis (RED) equipped with an ultra-selective membrane dedicated to transporting only one selected cation (cobalt), with simultaneous energy recovery.
Second place belongs to dr Joanna Sadowska from the College of Surgeons in Ireland, who presented an innovative way of regenerating human tissue using bone as an example. The prize, for both the winner and runner-up, is participation in the Falling Walls Lab 2023 world finals to be held in Berlin.
This international competition, aimed at students and young scientists, has a very interesting formula. Its participants have to present their idea for a breakthrough technology, scientific work or business in three minutes. Speeches are judged by an interdisciplinary jury made up of experts from academia and the public sector. The jury of the Wrocław edition, coordinated by prof. dr hab. David Blaschke, deliberated under the chairmanship of prof. Anna Chełmońska-Soyta.
Congratulations to the winners!
Further information about Falling Walls Lab can be found on the website.
