Welcome to our ‘Behind the Scenes’ podcasts dedicated to EU research and innovation. In this series, journalist Jennifer Baker spends time with some of Europe’s most brilliant scientists and innovators, whose discoveries are having a lasting and important impact on our daily lives. From Atlantic ocean health checks, pioneering cancer vaccines and quantum computing games to zero-waste houses, new-breed organic farming, and recycling textile. These and other compelling stories await listeners in our latest pods. Earlier in the series to celebrate the annual Research & Innovation Days we explored everything from the inner-secrets of biophysics, fungal architectures, robotics and automatic control, a...
Latest episodes
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24 min
S02/E06: Cancer mission… curing more, curing better
In this final episode of the season two, Jennifer Baker meets Dr Martine Caroff a French scientist, mentor and entrepreneur who founded two equally impressive biotech businesses. H…
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24 min
S02/E05: A blossoming career as a soil keeper
In the fifth episode of season two, journalist Jennifer Baker talks to the Austrian organic farmer and entrepreneur Alfred Grand who today is a member of several high-level EU and…
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23 min
S02/E04: The importance of recycling your jeans
Join us for the fourth episode of Behind the Scenes’ second season and hear why our guest, Ann Runnel from Estonia, created Reverse Resources (RR), a business for tracking and trad…
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21 min
S02/E03: The dream house with zero-waste impact
In the third episode of this season’s ‘Behind the Scenes’, Jennifer Baker talks to Andrej Fidersek, a Slovenian zero-waste specialist who recently won the Rising Star Prize given b…
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21 min
S02/E02: Quantum chess moves for the real-world
Episode two in this latest series of ‘Behind the Scenes’ finds Carla Caro Villanova, a physics student, Spanish Physics Olympiad, prestigious CiMs-Cellex scholar, and a self-declar…
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21 min
S02/E01: Learn to love the Ocean
In episode one of our fresh batch of ‘Behind the Scenes’ stories, we speak with Prof. J Murray Roberts, a marine biologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and chief researcher…
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1 min
TRAILER: Conversations with European researchers and innovators
Over the course of six episodes, Jennifer Baker interviews some of Europe’s most brilliant scientists and innovators. Tune in to learn more about such diverse research topics as bi…
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16 min
EPISODE 1: Understanding how our immune system works
In this first episode, Jennifer Baker talks to Dr Aleksandra Walczak, physicist and research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the École Norm…
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17 min
EPISODE 2: The cook, the fungi and his architecture
This second episode talks about harnessing the fungal mycelium for the purpose of growing architecture under the EU-funded FUNGAR project with Professor Phil Ayres – architect, res…
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15 min
EPISODE 3: Conversations with Robots
In the third episode of our series, Jennifer Baker talks to Dimos Dimarogonas, Professor of automatic control at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Dimos is workin…
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15 min
EPISODE 4: A village on ice
Join us for the fourth episode of our series and discover the journey of scientist Dr Polona Itkin from a small village in Slovenia to an expedition in the Arctic Ocean aboard the…
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16 min
EPISODE 5: Investigating space
In the fifth episode of our series, Jennifer Baker talks to Professor Dr Jason Hessels, Chief Astronomer at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) at the University…
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20 min
EPISODE 6: Building the Internet of Things
In the final episode of this season, Jennifer Baker meets Alicia Asín, a computer engineer, CEO and co-founder of the Spanish IT company Libelium. Her work explores how the Interne…