Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Following the 2026 anniversary meeting, Dr Thomas Gruber will step down from his role as Executive Director and Member of the Board and Council of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings at the end of July, as jointly agreed. Der Beitrag Dr Thomas Gruber to Pass on the Baton After the 2026 Anniversary Meeting erschien zuerst auf Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings .

Below you can find brief summaries of the sustainable work of Lindau alumni that emerged from the spontaneous workshop in Lindau. The survey on equality and wellbeing in academia is currently underway. Updates and initial results of the survey will be linked on this page. At the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry in July 2025, a group of Young Scientists came together to discuss chal…

Published 19 March 2026 by Shane Bergin and Leonhard Moeckl Science Communication: Building Trust, Inclusion, and Integrity The Science Communication Workshop during the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, facilitated by Lindau Alumni Shane Bergin and Leonhard Möckl, invited Young Scientists to explore what it means to communicate science with creativity, responsibility, and care. On this page, y…

From 28 June to 3 July 2026, the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will bring together around 75 Nobel Laureates and more than 600 Young Scientists from across the globe, marking a milestone in the history of one of the world’s most distinctive forums for intergenerational scientific exchange. At a time when geopolitical tensions, technological disruption and growing debates about trust in scien…

Synonyms for the Lindau Spirit: Inspiration, Connection, Education – Unathi Thango’s Farewell Speech Unathi Thango, University of South Africa, gave an engaging farewell address at the 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences. If I were to sum up the whole experience, I’m just going to use one word: Wow! But obviously, that’s not going to be enough. So, I thought of the three themes that are…

Celebrate Science: Ethics and Social Impact in Focus – Simon H. Johnson’s Personal Lindau Impressions Simon H. Johnson shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson – and promptly made his way to Lindau at the earliest opportunity. Here, he looks back on some of his highlights from the recent Meeting on economics and shares his advice to budding econo…

Curious and Empowered by the Lindau Community – Simon Nirenberg’s #LINO25 Farewell Speech Simon Nirenberg from Brown University gave a heartfelt farewell speech at the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, reflecting on the power of curiosity and courage. From the moment I entered this Meeting, I felt empowered to pursue curiosity. The Nobel Laureates were very deliberately walking around like all …

A Light in Dark Times – Moungi G. Bawendi’s Personal Lindau Impressions Moungi Bawendi, Chemistry Laureate 2023, relished his interactions with the Young Scientists and was inspired by the spirit of optimism and enthusiasm he experienced at the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. What I found striking, and this was something that was a cause of great optimism for me, was the level of enthusiasm. …

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to three professors for demonstrating how innovation drives economic growth, which in turn delivers greater human welfare while consigning outdated technologies to history. Joel Mokyr, 79, won half of the 11 million Swedish kronor (US$1.2 million) prize in October 2025 for articulating the essential conditions for continuous techno…

The immune system is one of the more complex systems of the human body, consisting of organs, such as the spleen and thymus, numerous types of cells and over 1,500 proteins. What differentiates the immune system from other systems is that it has to decide what is a foreign body and what is not – in other words, what is “self” and what is “non-self”. Attacking the Wrong Target For decades, scienti…

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 2…

In the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology – celebrating 100 years since the birth of quantum mechanics – it seems apt that the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three quantum physicists. On 7 October, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis were jointly recognized “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri…

Ulrike Böhm is deeply committed to science communication and open science, and she strongly champions women in research. On her blog, she features portraits of female scientists — many of whom have taken part in the Lindau Meetings. In 2025 she published interviews with women invited to the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry) and to the 8th Lindau Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences.

Dipa Ghindani, 2024 Lindau Alumna, describes how the Physics Meeting changed her perspective, drive, and confidence as a scientist. Der Beitrag Meeting Minds That Inspire – Reflections from Lindau erschien zuerst auf Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings .

After #LINO25, Alumna Sajal Arwish says nothing felt the same: the uniquely friendly, one-to-one exchanges with Nobel Laureates – from a panel on circular chemistry & sustainability to a Science Walk with Sir Stanley Whittingham – were truly life-changing. Der Beitrag A Life Changing Experience erschien zuerst auf Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings .

A recap of three perspectives on security in the age of AI, shared at #LINOecon this summer, concludes our blog series covering the Economics Meeting. Der Beitrag Security in the Age of Artificial Intelligence erschien zuerst auf Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings .

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 creat…

On Friday, 10 October 2025, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." Der Beitrag Nobel Peace Prize 2025 erschien zuerst auf Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings .

On Thursday, 9 October 2025, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art." Der Beitrag Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 erschien zuerst auf Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings .

Global Challenges: Hunger, Climate, and the Cost of Inaction. At the 2025 Nobel Meeting in Economic Sciences, David Beasley warned that hunger and forced migration fuel global instability. In a high-level panel, economists like Lars Peter Hansen and Joseph Stiglitz call for pragmatic climate action, fair carbon pricing, and global cooperation. Der Beitrag Climate Change and Food Security: How to …