SGU Student and Lecturer Rose as Finalists at Falling Walls Lab 2016
The first international, multi discipline science competition hosted by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD or Deutscher Akademischer Austauschedienst) and University of Indonesia was held on Tuesday 27th of September at the “Falling Walls Lab” Jakarta. The falling wall was initiated on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.
There were 122 participants who registered and continued to the selection process which lasted from July to September 2016. The selection process ended with a short list of 30 finalists. The finalists included Bachelor’s and Master’s students, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers and entrepreneurs. Each contestant had 3 minutes and was allowed a maximum of three slides to presents their research projects, business models and social initiatives that could solve the global challenge in front of seven jury members and an audience. They came from various disciplines, such as mechanical engineering, information and technology, architecture and science.
Two of the 30 finalists, Dr. Maulahikmah Galinium and Christina Dewita Annelies came from Swiss German University. Dr. Maulahikmah Galinium is a lecturer from Information Technology. He presented his research about Contact Smartcard Interoperability. This research is continuation from his Doctoral Study in University of Rome Tor Vergata (2009 – 2013). Currently the interoperability of Smartcards, especially in Identity smartcard, is still a challenge due to there being ino standard to create such a smartcard. Therefore a middleware to communicate with these different smartcards is required to solve the interoperability.
Christina Dewita Annelies is currently in the seventh semester of Pharmaceutical Engineering. Her idea comes from the enormous amount of sea salt water that can used as an alternative energy source to create electricity. The sea salt energy was a highly efficient green technology that therefore can be used for people who live without access of electricity.
