Inselhalle

Main Hall

Altyeb Ali Abaker Omer
Pu’er University, China

Sara Al-Araimi
University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Oman

Karen Arulsamy
Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Daniel Lachos Perez
University of Massachusetts, United States of America

Kathrine Maxwell
Senckenberg Society of Nature Research, Germany

Moderator: Omar M. Yaghi
University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

This panel brings together Young Scientists from across the world to re-examine how research priorities are set, whose needs they reflect and whether we are missing important questions.

Moving beyond research scopes shaped by a limited set of regions, the aim is to highlight overlooked challenges across diverse contexts, such as health, agriculture, climate resilience, energy systems, biodiversity, and social equity. It also probes disparities within regions, where certain topics and communities remain underrepresented.

What critical questions are we overlooking, and how can global science become more distributed so that the questions we pursue truly reflect the full spectrum of societal needs?