The audience learns how a quantum computer works, what influence climate change has on our beer, how microorganisms are recognised by plants and much more.
In the process, Soapbox Science also dispels an old cliché that stubbornly persists in many people's minds: Scientists are old men with frizzy, grey hair. The Soapbox Science series of events has been proving that the opposite can indeed be the case for more than ten years now at a wide variety of locations around the world.
“Soapbox Science Rheinland" is organised and carried out jointly by the Excellence Clusters ImmunoSensation2 (University of Bonn), CECAD (University of Cologne) and CEPLAS (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and University of Cologne), with the support of volunteers. In addition, the Citizens' University of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1208 support the event.