We're thrilled to introduce the 2011 TEDGlobal Fellows! They'll join the TED community in Edinburgh for TEDGlobal 2011: "The Stuff of Life."
Manuel Aguilar (Guatemala) - Founder of Quetsol, an organization meeting the energy needs of the Guatemalan people with appropriate tech solutions.
Femi Akinde (Nigeria | US) - Founder of SlimTrader, the first platform in Africa allowing consumers to shop for goods and services via their mobile phones through text.
Suleiman Bakhit (Jordan) - Jordanian social media entrepreneur creating comics, animation, and games for the Middle East.
Yana Buhrer Tavanier (Bulgaria) - Investigative journalist working to expose the inhumane treatment of children and adults with disabilities and mental illness in the Balkans.
Monika Bulaj (Poland | Italy) - Photographer + documentarian telling the stories of people and places in conflict.
Bilge M. Demirkoz (Turkey | Switzerland) - Particle physicist + educator currently working at CERN on the ATLAS experiment, looking for new physics.
Julie Freeman (UK) - UK based artist combining science, technology, and natural systems, in order to create work that "translates" nature.
Jose Gomez-Marquez (Honduras | US) - Director of the IIH (Innovations in International Health) Lab at MIT, inventing and deploying medical technology for global health.
Lars Jan (US) - US based media artist and founder of Early Morning Opera, a multidisciplinary art lab creating works about "America right now."
Somi (Rwanda | Uganda | US) - East African soul-jazz vocalist + songwriter and founder of New Africa Live.
Christine Lee (US | China) - American bio-archeologist working to uncover and better understand Mongolia's and China's ancient civilizations.
Jae Rhim Lee (US) - Founder of the Infinity Burial Project, a project developing a unique strain of mushroom that decomposes and remediates toxins in human tissue.
Jon Lowenstein (US) - Photographer specializing in long-term, in-depth projects around power, poverty, and violence -- also working to create a foundation committed to social justice through visual communication.
Sonaar Luthra (US) - Creator of Water Canary, a water-testing device that collects real-time water quality data from the field.
Nathalie Miebach (US) - Boston based artist using weather data to create sculptures and music.
Serge Mouangue (Cameroon | Japan) - Tokyo based Cameroonian cross cultural artist + designer -- bringing both African and Japanese techniques into his work.
Alex Odira Odundo (Kenya) - Kenyan inventor of the Sisal Decorticator, a device turning sisal plant into fibre, and the Sisal Twinner, a device turning sisal fibre into rope.
Genevieve von Petzinger (Canada) - Canadian doctoral student studying ancient geometric signs from the Ice Age.
Lucianne Walkowicz (US) - Postdoctoral Fellow studying the effects of stellar activity on exoplanets with the Kepler Mission.
Jodie Wu (US | Tanzania) - Founder of Global Cycle Solutions, an organization developing and selling appropriate tech in the form of bicycle add-ons.