SIYSS PARTICIPANTS 2024

BIOLOGY/BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE/BIOMEDICINE

Anna Cochrane

Anna Cochrane

University of Cambridge

Using a novel sheep model, my research assesses the impacts of maternal obesity in pregnancy on fetal cardiovascular function.

Cher Xu

Cher Xu

University of Melbourne

My research focuses on the spray-drying encapsulation of probiotics in kale and carrot juice powder by investigating their microbial, physiochemical and functional properties

Honglin Chen

Honglin Chen

University of Melbourne

CRISPR/Cas13 offers a promising new approach to precision cancer treatment by targeting and destroying cancerous RNA with high specificity, potentially overcoming the limitations of traditional therapies.

Julia Riek

Julia Riek

Schweizer Jugend forscht

Which environmental factors are decisive and how do they influence the decision to hatch or enter diapause in the butterfly Papilio machaon (Swallowtail)?

Dominika Csáki

Dominika Csáki

Hungarian Association for Innovation

In my research,
I used artificial intelligence to help better understand fish behaviour.

Aurelia Monserrat Santos Dolores

Aurelia Monserrat Santos Dolores

National Network of Youth Activities in Science and Technology in Mexico (laREDMex)

My project focuses on rainwater collection that reduces drinking water consumption at home.

Florian Reddel

Florian Reddel

Stiftung Jugend forscht – Germany

The objective of my research is the development of a process mechanism with enhanced efficacy for the production of a biomaterial derived from plant tissue and biomedical applications.

 Ria Kamat

Ria Kamat

Regeneron ISEF, Society for Science and the Public

My research focuses on stopping bone cancer from spreading to other body systems by manipulating the bone remodeling system​

CHEMISTRY

Piotr Olbryś

Piotr Olbryś

The European Union Contest for Young Scientists

Using quantum calculations, I designed new and sustainable materials for the batteries.

Jimin Lee

Jimin Lee

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

My research focuses on designing hydrogen peroxide-responsive small molecules that effectively modulate multiple pathological factors of Alzheimer’s disease.

ENGINEERING

Alyssa Göranssson

Alyssa Göranssson

Luleå University of Technology

My research focuses on how carbon capture technologies can be implemented to further reduce carbon emissions from steelmaking.

Melina Sattelmeier

Melina Sattelmeier

Luleå University of Technology

I numerically investigate how pumped hydropower storage affects the thermal conditions in hydropower reservoirs with the aim of finding ways to reduce its environmental impacts.

Samira Baumann

Samira Baumann

Schweizer Jugend forscht

My research project focuses on the development of a wireless system for communication in water that can provide a sufficiently high data rate to control various devices or transmit information.

PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS

Davide Farassino

Davide Farassino

Schweizer Jugend forscht

I investigated a double pendulum to see how well a neural network can predict the behaviour of chaotic systems.

Aleksandra Petkova

Aleksandra Petkova

The European Union Contest for Young Scientists

 My project proposed the best theoretical model for ship wakes so far and was one of the first to experimentally investigate the narrow angle regime

Hilary Chee

Hilary Chee

World Scientific Publishing Company

I investigate the time-dependent retraction speed of a fragmenting soap film bound by a Slinky spring through formulating a force-based theoretical model and corroborating it with experiments.

Julien-Pierre Houle

Julien-Pierre Houle

Youth Science Canada

I developed an algorithm to compute Green’s function on a quantum computer, yielding results consistent with those obtained through classical numerical methods.

Shuhan Luo

Shuhan Luo

Regeneron ISEF, Society for Science and the Public

This research focuses on explaining hadronization, the process of quarks and gluons combined with each other into hadrons, happening at the very start of the universe and in particle colliders.

Theodor Anton Sivager

Theodor Anton Sivager

The Danish Youth Association of Science

My project aims to integrate secondary sounds from the splashes of raindrops into acoustic rainfall measurements

Anna Oliva

Anna Oliva

Regeneron ISEF, Society for Science & the Public

My research is on the trajectory of a point-like object moving in a boundary shaped like a square or a rectangle and reflecting off the boundary with a constant angle.