From June 30 to July 5, 2024, more than 30 Nobel Laureates and around 600 young scientists gathered in Lindau for the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which this year was dedicated to the field of physics.

The annual meeting rotates between the disciplines of physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics, as well as interdisciplinary themes. It offers a platform for networking and features a diverse program designed to encourage interaction and exchange among young scientists and Nobel Laureates.

Florina Marxer successfully passed an international selection process and had the great honor of participating in the meeting with support from the University of Liechtenstein. She is a doctoral student at ETH Zurich, where she researches how proteins self-organize into functional larger structures during cell division within the field of biophysics. According to Florina Marxer, the exchange with students and Nobel Laureates at the Lindau Meeting was inspiring and will shape her both as a scientist and as an individual.

At the conclusion of this year's meeting, attending Nobel Laureates signed a declaration warning against the use of nuclear weapons. The first such “Mainau Declaration” was initiated in 1955 by German Nobel Laureates Otto Hahn and Max Born, also warning against nuclear arms. This year’s declaration marks only the third Mainau Declaration in the history of the meeting—truly a historic moment.