Apocalypse now! Research, Solutions and Citizen Science

We are the cause, let’s be the solution!  

Many of us are overwhelmed and anxious about the current state of the world. Draughts, floods and increasingly extreme weather are going to affect all of us – sooner or later. With other pandemics lurking around the corner, many of us feel paralysed and unsure about the future.

That’s why Soapbox Science Berlin and LGBTQ STEM Berlin have joined forces again for this year’s Berlin Science Week Campus. Eight experts will show you new and exciting scientific results, as well as advances in the fields of sustainability, waste management and climate research in bite-sized talks. Further we discuss how citizen science can contribute to these topics. Our experts will be there to answer all  the questions you have been burning to ask.

Instead of waiting for the world to collapse around you, come and join us! Learn about how different crises are still affecting our lives even after they disappeared from the news and how YOU can get active in your community. Dare to know!

12:00 – 12:30
Maya Ben-Yami
Technical University of Munich + Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Climate tipping points

LGBTQ STEM Berlin + Soapbox Science Berlin
Introduction to the organizing teams

12:30 – 13:00
Natalia Andrea Tarazona Lizcano
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and MENZYPOL-NET
The plastics dilemma, how can microbes help us?

Terra Sztain
FU Berlin
Computational simulations of SARS-CoV-2

13:00 – 13:30
Klaus Jäger
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
How renewable energy can tackle the climate crisis

Betty Noriega-Ortega
European Citizen Science Association
Citizen science: you can be a scientist too!

13:30 – 14:00
Chiara Pasquini
FU Berlin / Aurora Energy Research
Hydrogen production

Heather Murdock
Universität Potsdam
Can Flood Early Warning Systems prevent Disasters?