Project Lead Falling Walls LabFalling Walls Foundation
Lisa currently serves as Project Lead for the Falling Walls Foundation’s interdisciplinary format for early-career researchers, the Falling Walls Lab. The Lab provides outstanding talents from 60 countries a platform for pitching their innovative ideas – in just three minutes each. Prior to joining Falling Walls in 2015, Lisa worked in non-profit programme and event management, science management, and the Berlin start-up scene.
Her enthusiasm for science communication and belief that science can be a catalyst for change drives her daily work conceptualising and organising the annual, global Falling Walls Lab Finale in November, where 100 finalists from 80 international Falling Walls Labs compete for the “Falling Walls Young Innovator of the Year“ title. In the run up to the Finale, Lisa also manages the finalists’ extended programme in Berlin, which among other highlights includes attending the Falling Walls Conference, the Foundation’s flagship event, where 20 of the world’s leading scientists are invited to present their current breakthrough research on 9 November, the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Lisa enjoys creating fruitful experiences for participants that leave them feeling inspired and eager to take their research to new levels. In her freetime, she enjoys discovering Berlin's ever-changing landscapes by bike and on long walking-tours.
Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America, Oceania, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa