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Innovators Under 35: A Global Community

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Created in 1999, Innovators Under 35 is the Some winners of previous editions are now leading community of innovators, pioneers and recognized worldwide. Most of them have turned social changemakers and the most prestigious groundbreaking ideas into successful projects and recognition worldwide bestowed by MIT sustainable companies, and are now transforming Technology Review, the oldest technology the world as we know it. Among them you will magazine, published by The Massachusetts find prominent personalities as Konstantin Institute of Technology. Novoselov (Nobel Prize in Physics), (developer of PayPal), Since its creation, MIT Technology Review (founder of ), Daniel Ek (co-founder of has been publishing the list of the most brilliant Spotify), Linus Torvalds (developer of Linux) Innovators Under 35 that are making exciting and Helen Greiner (CTO of CyPhyWorks and strides, shaping their fields and solving problems co-founder of iRobot). in remarkably different ways. In 2011, the magazine brought the search for talented youth to local Each year, MIT Technology Review relies on its editions in different countries within . The committee of judges, made up of experts from main objective of the regional European award leading universities and companies, to select has been to strengthen this young European the 35 best profiles of candidates. In addition to community of innovators and pioneers. this, in 2019 the competition will be recognizing five different categories of winners: Inventors, Today, the European program lends visibility Entrepreneurs, Visionaries, Humanitarians, to the work of the most talented, young, and Pioneers, according to their profile as technological leaders and consolidates innovators. From generating new opportunities to an international innovation community. reimagining how things are done, this competition Each year, brilliant men and women are creates a unique platform for those individuals that recognized for their advancements in diverse strive make a disruptive and impactful change. technical fields which include: biotechnology and medicine, computer and electronics We look forward to your participation in helping us hardware, software, Internet, artificial find the next, most innovative young talents! intelligence, robotics, telecommunications, nanotechnology and materials, energy or transportation.

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The European Community

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+1.100 candidates 72 Ambassadors Nominated or recommended top profiles to compete From the 28 European Union country members for a spot amongst the winners applied last year

35 winners 40% of the innovators From 15 different European countries Are working on Software projects or AI

Female Innovators 85% of the laureates Made up more than one-third of last year´s winners list Have founded their own startup company or organization

More than 25% of the laureates More than 30% of the winners Are working on Biotechnology & Medicine projects Have been proposed by one of our Ambassadors

155 jury members Experts in technology and entrepreneurship with different backgrounds evaluated the candidates

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Knowing Former Laureates

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Francesca Santoro Paul Duan Tom Carter Christina Friis Blach Petersen Italy, 2018 France, 2018 United Kingdom, 2018 Denmark, 2018

Researcher Francesca Santoro has always If Uber can use algorithms to coordinate the Many keen gamers dream of being able to Society is becoming increasingly aware of the had a special sensitivity towards women deployment of its cars, why can’t a city do the physically push the wall that hides a secret door, impact of exercise and diet on health, but very few abuse victims who have suffered large skin same for the deployment of its ambulances? This feel the touch of the vegetation as they move people appreciate the importance of a healthy wounds. After completing her master’s degree is the question posed by Bayes Impact, an NGO through the jungle, or unleash a lightning bolt intake of light. Christina Petersen wants to make from the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) based in California (USA) and Paris (France), which against one of their enemies. These kinds of clear the importance of aligning daily habits to and a doctorate at the Technical University of is trying to solve social problems with artificial sensations are possible thanks to the device these biorhythms. The solution proposed is an Aachen (Germany), this biomedical engineer intelligence (AI). Paul Duan decided to leave his job created by Tom Carter while he was studying elegant wearable, the LYS 1.0, which contains light decided it was time to “develop a project that at Eventbrite in Silicon Valley (USA) to give back to engineering at the University of Bristol (UK). It sensors that mimic the functioning of the human would help people”. Santoro spent three years society what he himself had received. is composed of a set of speakers that emits eye’s photoreceptors. These measure in real time in the Chemistry Department at Stanford ultrasonic waves focused on the player’s hands. the intensity and color of the light and transmit Duan´s biggest project is Bob Emploi, a job University (USA) exploring the possibilities that Upon impact, these waves make the skin vibrate data via Bluetooth to an app from which the user search tool created in coordination with the nanotechnology opens up for designing new and create the sensation of touch. To precisely has access to them. There they are analyzed by French Government. The platform uses artificial materials that interact better with living cells. direct the waves, cameras that detect where they various algorithms and the end result is advice and intelligence to give personalised advice to Her work crystallised in her current project: a are complete the device. feedback designed to make the user’s routines unemployed people in France. To improve their photovoltaic material that can be integrated into healthier. Essentially this project strives to improve job search, the platform asks them questions In addition to its application in the gaming industry a plaster, which transmits electrical pulses to people’s sleep, alertness, productivity and mental and analyses their answers based on the current Ultrahaptics has been collaborating with Bosch to skin cells damaged by burns or injuries to and well-being through understanding light in their labour market. Duan’s work and that of the whole bring its technology into the automotive industry. give instructions to these cells to accelerate their environment. Bayes Impact team has been recognised by the Last year at the CES show they presented a car regeneration. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and he was with a system of recognition of gestures and As personally useful as this may be, it can also be To avoid using large devices, she proposed chosen in 2015 as one of the under-30s spotlighted haptic feedback, with which it is possible to move applied to businesses and industries that seek creating a plaster that captures solar energy with a by Forbes magazine. The young man states that dashboard controls without touching them. Carter to improve the well-being of employees and thin photovoltaic panel at the top, which is organic, Bayes Impact, his “life project”, aspires to become has developed a disruptive technology and design more efficient office spaces and buildings. flexible and lightweight. This panel transforms something like “the United Nations of technology” co-founded a company of 100 employees with The device is on sale in 11 countries, and up to light into electricity and transmits it in the form and to continue to create similar projects all over more than 30 million in funds and an enormous present they have sold 2,000 units of the LYS 1.0 of controlled pulses to the damaged skin cells the world. potential in different markets. (particularly to corporate customers). with which it is in contact. Santoro strives to also monitor healing and degradation state of wounds. press_innovatorsunder35 @opinno.com #Innovators35EU www.innovatorsunder35.com 7 MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INNOVATORS UNDER 35 KNOWING FORMER LAUREATES These are some of our laureates who are making an impact

Daniel Wiegand Kristina Tsvetanova Hugo Mercier Timothée Boitouzet Germany, 2017 Austria, 2017 France, 2017 France, 2016

Small, clean airplanes are not only a human fantasy. Kristina Tsvetanova is a Bulgarian living in Hugo Mercier is working in the neuroscience field In 2008, Timothée Boitouzet began his For many megacities, they will prove crucial as Austria and graduated with honors in Industrial and how technology help tackle sleeping disorders. architecture studies at the school of Versailles. At the streets become increasingly clogged and Engineering. Inspired by a blind friend, she founded This interest led him to co-found a company called 23, he was admitted to Harvard, which allowed him current aviation practices are loud and dirty. With the BLITAB Technology GmbH in 2014. Her Rhythm that has grown to house a staf of 70 current to continue his studies while also being initiated in his start-up Lilium, Daniel Wiegand, graduate of the team has developed the first Braille tablet with an employees and has achieved over 20€ million in molecular biology. During his training in this area, Technical University of Munich,is pioneering this innovative actuating technology which creates funding and revenues since its initial establishment in he realized that there is an alternative to brick, new way of transportation, opening up a completely tactile text and graphics: an “iPad” for the blind. 2014. stone or concrete to be considered for building new technological area - the field of battery- Their novel invention is the smart tactile technology tomorrow’s constructions: wood. Mercier´s work for Rhythm began with the powered planes. that can be integrated into various environments research he initially conducted on sleeping This material has historically been associated and smart body applications. BLITAB converts any The founders received money from the EU start-up patterns and the neurological aspects behind with more rudimentary and simple structures, but document into Braille text; little smart dots (“tixels”) funding programme Climate-KIC Accelerators, from sleep disorders. Today, he is working on the in Boitouzet’s view, wood has a great potential to raise immediately from the surface and then fall Business Incubation Centre Bavaria, and from the development of Dreem, the first active sleep transfrom modern buildings. Boitouzet’s company, down again. UnternehmerTUM fund run by TU Munich. Since wearable to improve sleep quality through neural Woodoo, has developed a treatment that gives then, investors have come to include the well-known Within a couple of months, more than 2,500 stimulations that promote deep sleep using sound. wood new properties, amongst which the ability venture capitalist Frank Thelen, Christian Reber, customers pre-ordered BLITAB. In addition, they Within a time frame of 2 years, Rythms’s team to become translucent stands out. In addition to who sold his app Wunderlist to Microsoft; and have developed use cases with key B2B and B2G has generated over 20 patents and developed overcoming the issues surrounding strength and Atomica, the investment firm from Skype founder stakeholders and have been featured by the BBC a wearable device that conducts an automatic, aesthetics, the treatment patented by Boitouzet Niklas Zennström. Recently, the Chinese internet as one of the top 10 groundbreaking technologies in-depth analysis of brain activity while the user also makes the material fireproof and waterproof. giant Tencent Holdings announced a 90 million presented at the Global Tech Show. BLITAB has sleeps. Several metrics have been monitored to Since his regontition as an Innovator Under 35, euros investment into the start-up in a new round of also been approached by more than 40 leading evaluate the efficiency of the stimulation process. many national and international media sources financing aimed at developing a five-seat air taxi that universities worldwide to collaborate in furthering They have also completed their clinical trials with have profiled him as one of the most innovative could transport passengers or cargo as far as 300 the development of the technology. Hotel Dieu Hospital in Paris, and Pr. Damien Léger. young minds and placed him in the international kilometers and reach a speed of 300 kilometers an These results are beating literature state-of-the- spotlight. hour. art, and are unprecedented in terms of sleep improvement compared to existing products.

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Olga Malinkiewicz Sébastien Deletaille Xavier Duportet Luz Rello Poland, 2015 Belgium, 2015 France, 2015 Spain, 2014

A materials scientist and entrepreneur, Olga Sébastien Deletaille is a Belgian entrepreneur In 2014 Xavier Duportet co-founded Eligo Luz Rello, a PhD in Linguistics from Pompeu Fabra Malinkiewicz gave up her postdoctoral studies founder of Real Impact Analytics, a company Bioscience, a spin-off company from MIT and University (Spain) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at at the University of Linköping (Sweden) in 2014 that transforms telecom data into actions through the Rockefeller University (USA). Together with Carnegie Mellon University (USA) has focused to found the company Saule Technologies and a suite of big data technology, applications, his partner David Bikard, they developed a her research on finding out ways to help kids with pursue her dreams. To this end, this young woman processes & Business Analytics Services. system that takes advantage of genetic edition dyslexia. Her results have been translated into the focused on taking a mineral that could revolutionize Sebastien realized that the data they were techniques and nanotechnology to cut part of development of several digital tools and apps that the solar energy industry -perovskites- to the mass gathering and analyzing could also be used to the genetic material of certain bacteria killing or help these children to improve their reading and market. address social issues in developing countries and deactivating them, while leaving intact the rest of writing skills, and allow to adapt web pages and decided to start his “Data for Good” project. microorganisms that make up the flora. digital content to easy-to-read formats for people In 2014, Malinkiewicz presented her inkjet printing with dyslexia. manufacturing process for perovskite sheets in The cornerstone of “Data for Good”´s philosophy The team modifies a specific virus called one of the main conferences in the field in Boston is the information hidden within different data bacteriophage and empties it of their genetic She continued her research and founded the (USA), and nowadays, she is commercializing correlations, like those which may exist between material then, they insert in them a synthetic DNA social enterprise, Change Dyslexia, to significantly perovskite technology. Recently, her team the rate of prepaid phone card refills and food circuit, meaning an artificially created DNA with decrease school failure due to dyslexia. Since presented a small, flexible module, which can purchases in certain regions of Africa. When this a specific function. After being injected into the the launch of this project, she has gained national be easily incorporated into a smartphone at the data was crossed, Deletaille´s team identified bacteria by the virus, and thanks to the CRISPR and international media attention and received International Conference on Perovskite Thin a positive correlation between the purchase of system, the circuit codes the Cas9 enzyme the prestigious recognition “Premio Fundación Film Photovoltaics (ABXPV) in Barcelona. The foods rich in vitamins and prepaid phone card and RNA, allowing the Cas9 to be directed to a Princesa de Girona Social” in 2016. She brought demonstration device, when exposed to light, refills.Inversely, an increased rate of phone card concrete sequence of the bacteria’s genome, cut her project one step further by signing an provides enough power to charge up the battery of refills is directly associated with decreased it, and kill the microorganism. This is how modified agreement with Samsung. Together, they created a mobile phone. consumption of food with inferior nutritional value. bacteriophages eliminate the bacteria carrying Dytective for Samsung: the first test for tablets and More importantly, these results can be applied to resistant or virulent genes and leave the rest of computers that measures the risk for children of Presently, Olga’s team at Saule Technologies has other fields using the cell phone data. Once a data the microbiome untouched. Duportet’s team has suffering from dyslexia in just 15 minutes through reached an agreement with Skanska to cover correlation is identified it is no longer necessary to carried out test´s in vitro with a cocktail of various linguistic games. Dytective’s launch has generated office buildings with semi-transparent perovskite repeat the same studies in other geographies. bacteriophages capable of injecting synthetic DNA a massive and positive media impact (TV, radio, solar cells on a commercial scale. With this into types of bacteria. They are also working on a print and online) so far and is a very useful test for technology, Skanska is becoming a leader in the way to target species and strains of bacteria. the early detection of dyslexia in kids. green building & construction sector worldwide. press_innovatorsunder35 @opinno.com #Innovators35EU www.innovatorsunder35.com 9 MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INNOVATORS UNDER 35

Our European Collaborators

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Throughout the years, MIT Technology Review has built a large community with over 1.000 professionals and institutions: innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, influencers, professors, researchers, universities, incubators, public and private organizations and media partners.

These community members have collaborated actively with the Innovators Under 35 Europe project to support innovation and showcase the talent of Europe’s young minds. Their mission is to cooperate by spreading the word about the competition, as well as suggesting candidates with disruptive projects that are suitable to participate +1.000 +150 in the awards. With their help, Innovators Under experts publications 35 contributes to knowledge creation and Top researchers, entrepreneurs and about our innovators were published on the diffusion of new technologies to make industry leaders are part of our network national and international media last year the world a better place to live in.

In addition, MIT Technology Review relies on a diverse committee of judges made up of technologists, inventors and entrepreneurs from the best universities and companies worldwide. It is their job to evaluate the projects submitted +150 +300 by Innovators Under 35 candidates and help the editors choose the best awardees. The list of expert jury members alliances judges changes each year and is published along Have evaluated our candidates Help us maximize our reach globally with the list of winners in the official awards page.

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Emmanuelle Tognoli Julien de Wit María Alegre Bruno Wattenbergh Associate Research Professor of MIT Professor, Associate Member at Researcher at Columbia University Senior Advisor and Ambassador for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences the Broad Institute, and Founder of Center on Global Energy Policy Innovation at EY Belgium (Ernst & Young) at Florida Atlantic University Morpheus, LLC and Academic Director of the AMISM Advanced Masters at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management

Rahul Raj Erick Brethenoux Nuria Oliver Cécile Tharaud MD, PhD, Associate Professor Research Director at Gartner Director of Research in Data Science Vice President of Innovation at Groupe in Experimental Neurosurgery at Vodafone and Chief Data Scientist at NAOS (Bioderma, Instituts Esthederm, at University of Helsinki and Helsinki Data-Pop Alliance Etat Pur) University Hospital

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