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Lindau Alumnus Enrique Lin Shiao shares how advice he received from Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie led to a postdoc position in the lab 2020 Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna. Enrique now leads the search and evaluation team at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.Watch his Lindau Moment on YouTube or LinkedIn.

Can science and storytelling coexist?Lindau Alumna Lučka Bibič learned at the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting that pure science and creative communication can be combined – through inspiring discussion with Nobel Laureate Ben Feringa and fellow Young Scientists. Find her Lindau Moment in Youtube.

Lindau Moments is a new video series highlighting impactful stories of encounters at the Lindau Meetings to celebrate our 75th anniversary.Our first episode features 2018 Lindau Alumnus David Niyukuri . After conversations in Lindau, David shifted his research focus to malaria, built a small lab through connections he made here, and today works as a malaria researcher at the University of Burundi

How common are mental health struggles, discrimination, and bullying in academia?Are these related to gender, sexual orientation, place of origin, or ability? What drives researchers to leave – and how can we improve the current state?📝 Take part in an international survey on equity and wellbeing in academia, aimed at early-career scientists in STEM – both those currently in academia (PhD/ PostDo

How does communication shape the relationship between science and society? That was the question that set the tone for a dynamic workshop at the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting — and it didn’t take long for the room to fill with curiosity, creativity, and bold ideas. Guided by Lindau Alumni Shane Bergin and Leonhard Moeckl, Young Scientists explored not just how science is communicated, but why

Lindau Alumna Unathi Thango gave a heartfel farewell speech to sum up the 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences last August. She spoke passionately about her experience, a video call between her father and a Laureate, and what insights she brings back from Lindau. 🔗Find Unathi's speech in our Annual Report or on our website.

What makes the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings so special? According to Nobel Laureate Simon H. Johnson, it’s the extraordinary cross‑generational exchange between top researchers and emerging talent from around the world — conversations that spark new ideas, challenge assumptions, and encourage economists to confront society’s biggest questions.  Looking back at the 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Eco

Lindau Alumnus Simon Nirenberg gave a heartfelt farewell speech at the end of 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, reflecting on the power of curiosity and courage.  Find an excerpt of the speech and more in our Annual Report or on our website:

At the end of last year, Lindau Alumni-led AuthentiSci received 2nd place in the 2025 Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Prize for Innovation in Global Security.In a new blog post, Lindau Alumnus Nicholas Clifton reflects on why misinformation in science is a global security issue, and how the AuthentiSci platform works to address the issue. 👉To find out more about AuthentiSci, a webtool th

Nobel Laureate Moungi G. Bawendi (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023) shares deeply personal impressions from his first Lindau participation, the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.In his contribution to our Annual Report, Professor Bawendi reflects on the meaningful conversations he had with Young Scientists during #LINO25 — and how their optimism, curiosity, and enthusiasm left a lasting impact on hi

Lindau Alumna Noelia Rechnitzer writes about lessons beyond the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for Chemistry World: "Lindau taught me that science thrives on connection – across generations, across disciplines and across continents. It reminded me that mentorship is not a hierarchy but a circle. Each of us can lift another, just as someone once lifted us. (...) Science should not be a ladder t

The 2025 Nobel Prize honors the breakthrough work by Shimon Sakaguchi, Fred Ramsdell, and Mary E. Brunkow on the mechanisms that keep our immune system in check so it doesn’t attack our own body. 🔗 Find out more on our blog.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 honours three scientists who have developed a new form of molecular architecture characterized by large cavities. These molecules can encapsulate important substances – from carbon dioxide to pharmaceuticals – enabling a wealth of different real-world applications.Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 202

2024 Lindau Alumna Dipa Ghindani reflects on her experience at the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: which Laureates inspired her most, and how the meeting has shaped her journey:While the meeting may not immediately change my research, it transformed something larger – my perspective, drive, and confidence as a scientist. Listening to Nobel Laureates recount the challenges, failures, and triump

Lindau Alumna Sajal Arwish reflects on her participation in this year's Chemistry Meeting on our blog: The Science Walk with Sir Stanley Whittingham was amazing; we had a very good scientific discussion. Morten Meldal and his wife also inspired me in many ways. His words – “Young Scientist before, now a Nobel Laureate… yeah, I did it” – were truly motivating. I remember my exchange with Ben L. Fer

On Monday, 13 October 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creati

On Wednesday, 8 October 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”From the press release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:“The Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry 2025 have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases an

On Tuesday, 7 October 2025, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”.From the press release of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:A major question in physics is the maximum size of a system th

On Monday, 6 October 2025, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”From the press release of Karolinska Institutet:“The body’s powerful immune system must be regulated, or it may attack our own organs. Mary

The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings mourn the passing of Nobel Laureate George Smoot at the age of 80.Professor Smoot was awarded the 2006 NobelPrize in Physics together with John Mather for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Professor Smoot led the blackbody form experiment, based on measurements made by NASA's COBE satellite. The dis