Iain Couzin among the Falling Walls Global Call Winners 2022
Iain Couzin, co-spokersperson of the CASCB, is one of the Falling Walls Life Sciences Winner 2022. The prize is awarded to researchers who submitted "ground-breaking projects".
"Which are the next walls to fall in science and society?" That is the leading question of the Falling Walls Award. The jury reviewed more than 1.000 entries from 105 countries and decided that Iain Couzin, co-speaker of the Excellence Cluster “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” at the University of Konstanz and Director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, is a ground-breaking researcher.
As a Falling Walls winner of the year 2022 Iain Couzin is hence shortlisted for the Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022. The Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2022 will be announced on Tuesday, 13 September.
Falling Walls Summit in November 2022
In the eyes of the Falling Walls Foundation, the fall of the Berlin Wall exemplifies the responsibility to breaking down barriers in research and society. On the occasion of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Falling Walls Summit will take place in Berlin from 7 to 9 November 2022. At the summit, researchers who where recognized for a "Scientific Breakthrough of the Year" will present their work.
Further information: www.falling-walls.com