Stefano Cestellos-Blanco and his team SSwEET was one of three finalists in NASA’s CO2 Conversion Challenge. The UC Berkeley team demonstrated abiotic CO2 to sugar conversion and were the only academic lab among industrial scale companies to be named a co-winner of this prize!

The fruitful collaboration started from a talk at the GT Networking Conference 2019. Alumni Marcelo M. Morato and Joey D. Ocon published a paper on Renewable Energy regarding demand compliance on the Philippine islands using renewable energy grids.

Digitalization & Smart Technologies can build a sustainable society of the future & strategically address challenges related to the SDGs. Eleven Green Talents have joined forces & published their view on a Smart Green Planet. A wonderful outcome of alumni cooperation on the Networking Conference 2019.

Mario Heredia has published Potential for Farmers’ Cooperatives to Convert Coffee Husks into Biochar and Promote the Bioeconomy in the North Ecuadorian Amazon as a result of his research stay at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2020.

Green Talent Muhammad Hegazy is one of the seven winners of the "CAADRIA Young Award 2021" by the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. This award is part of an international conference and based on the academic excellence and the importance of the submitted paper. 

Check out this portrait of Kennedy Mbeva (Green Talent 2014) who is passionate and enthusiastic about how sustainable models can be implemented to fight the climate change. To support African researchers, Kennedy co-founded African Research & Impact Network, a platform connecting researchers globally.

Dr Mohit Saraf has been awarded the Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow for 2 years by the USIEF, Fulbright Commision in India. Now also winner of the Grand prize of Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation Photo Contest.

Muhammad Iqhrammullah, Green Talent 2020 and doctoral researcher from Universitas Syiah Kuala working in the wide range of the chemistry field. He is currently initiating many research projects involving young researchers from various fields.