The 11th Sofia Science Festival will take place on 15 and 16 May 2021 at Sofia Tech Park and on 17 and 18 May digitally for students.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, changes may occur – both in the dates and format (digital or face-to-face). Please follow the festival page for the latest information.
Join Dr. Jane Goodall and learn more about her early years in Gombe, the challenges she faced and why young people give her hope for the future of our planet.
World-renowned astrophysicist Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell presents the stories of three eminent female astronomers who lived between 1750 and 2016 and today’s position of women in astronomy.
Roger Highfield reveals how early life repairs and organises itself, what this means for the future of pregnancy, and how we might solve IVF disorders and prevent miscarriages.
The Big Bang theory has many holes and omissions. Most notably it leaves unanswered the question: what banged? Prof. Joao Magueijo sheds light on this shady matter.
Dr. Livia Tomova presents results from her research on the effects of social stress, social isolation and loneliness on the human brain.
There are trillions of microbes living in our guts, transforming food molecules into metabolites and our bodies use these microbial waste products. Simon Spichak tells us how that happens.
Former NASA astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger shares her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut and the road that has taken her dream to fruition in April 2010.
Polish archaeologist and history teacher Marcin Gostkowski tells us how much archaeology we can find in Asterix and Obelix’s adventures brought to us by pop culture.
Hungarian evolutionary biologist Dr. Orsolya Bajer-Molnárhow on how COVID-19 is one of many epidemics and on how we could make the many a lot less.
Lea Hartl, scientist at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, gives an overview of current glacier recession in the Alps.
This talk with Robert Nicholls will explore the magnitude, sources and resulting impacts of sea-level rise and the potential responses for possible adaptation.