Molecular biologist Eleni Tomazou is on the cutting edge of cancer research. Her main focus is on Ewing sarcoma, a cancer in children affecting muscles and soft tissues. She conducts her research at the St. Anna Children’s Hospital in Vienna, Austria.

‘Cognitive Biologist’ and behavioral scientist Alice Auersperg has spent 20 years studying Kakadus/Kea, an Indonesian species capable of constructing and utilizing tools to master specific tasks.

Marine Biologist Markus Möst studies ecological systems of inland water. And he does so by focusing on Daphnia, also known as water fleas, small planktonic crustaceans crucial to the balance of the nutritional chain. Markus researches these freshwaters for the study of ecotoxicity and its environmental consequences.

Ruth Mateus-Berr is a professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, as well as a scientist and multisensual design researcher. She works predominantly in the field of dementia, hosting art workshops with affected people to astonishing results. Her decade long research culminated in the international art show ‘DEMETARTS’, an exhibition aiming at generating empathy for the part of society afflicted with this neurodegenerative disease.

Roland Resel is a solid state physicist and professor of physics at the University of Technology in Graz, Austria. His groundbreaking research on the behavior of surface materials laid the foundation for important advances in technology.