A key characteristic of the Falling Walls Conference is the high calibre of speakers who present their state of the art research. We are currently reviewing proposals for breakthrough research from all over the world to offer a unique programme.
We are happy to introduce a part of our speakers 2010:
Dalton Conley, Senior Vice Provost, Dean for the Social Sciences and University Professor, New York University, Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA, Senior Advisor to the UN Millennium Project
Frederick Cooper, Professor of History, Department of History, New York University
Olafur Eliasson, Professor, Universität der Künste Berlin, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin
Laura Engelstein, Henry S. McNeil Professor of History, Department Chair, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Doug Guthrie, Dean of The George Washington University School of Business, Professor of Management and International Business, The George Washington University, Washington DC
Yael Hanein, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Electronics, Tel Aviv University
Wolfgang Holzgreve, Chief Medical Director, University Medical Center, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Reinhard Hüttl, Professor, Chair, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, President, acatech, German Academy of Science and Engineering, Berlin
Ichiro Inasaki, Provost, Director of the Institute of Science and Technology Research, University Professor, Chubu University, Kasugai City, Japan
Thomas Lengauer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Honorary Professor, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
Julie Livingston, Associate Professor, History Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Jürgen Mlynek, Professor, President, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Berlin
Christoph Möllers, Professor of Law, Chair of Constitutional Law and Legal Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Manfred Prenzel, University Professor, Dean of the TUM School of Education, Technische Universität München
Shalini Randeria, University Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Zürich, Fellow at Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Sabine Schmidtke, University Professor, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Professor of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Tania Singer, University Professor, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department Social Neuroscience, Leipzig
Eckhard Thiel, Professor of Hematology and Oncology, Director of the Medical Clinic for Hematology and Oncology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Daniel Vanmaekelbergh, University Professor, Groupleader in Chemistry and Physics of Nanostructures, Dept. of Condensed Matter and Interfaces, Debye Institute for NanoMaterials Science, Universiteit Utrecht
Katja Windt, Full Professor, Bernd Rogge Professor of Global Production Logistics, Jacobs University, Bremen
If you wish to suggest speakers and breakthrough work, please send us a mail: Office@Falling-Walls.com.
