In the final episode of Season 1, we met Prof. Stefan Hell - a Nobel prize winning physicist who in his own words was "forced into becoming an applied physicist." (!) He is known for developing a technique of optical microscopy that broke the 125 year reign of Abbe's limit and today allows us to look down at the molecular scale with just a simple m…

Shadow profiles? User behaviour? Utility function?!Dr. David Garcia breaks down his research in computational social science for us. There is more to social media than what meets the eye.More info: http://simplifyd.xyz/blog/ep-11-david-garciaWe publish a new episode every week. Follow us to stay updated!…

We spoke to Daniel Längle, CEO of 1nfusion, a med-tech startup trying to change the way blood infusion pumps work. A graduate engineer from ETH Zurich, Daniel tells us about their innovative new technology and goes on about all the work that goes into building a successful med-tech startup.Check out 1nfusion here: http://1nfusion.com/More details: …

Tobias Joos' start-up, Crowd Container, lets you order high quality food ingredients like spices and oils directly from the farms where they are grown. In his conversation with us he makes the case for seasonal availability of ingredients and drops the ball on all that is opaque about the food certification sector.More details: http://simplifyd.xyz…

Prof. Vijay Natarajan from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, joined us to talk about data visualization. He works with what he calls "scientific data" - data that comes from imaging devices and satellites and such, not the kind that Facebook is collecting on you. His work he explains is to create such visualizations so that the experts ca…