Kilian Gunthner

Kilian Guenthner

Kilian Günthner

Selected Press

Project: Music Tools and Widgets

Project: Music Tools and Widgets

Music Tools Website

Music Tools Website

Kölner Stadtanzeiger & Kölnische Rundschau (Newspapers)
Smartphone Sets Tempo in Rehearsal Room
He is an inventor with many talents: technically gifted, musical, and tech-savvy. His latest project brings all of this together. Kilian Günthner has developed an app for musici...
Sheconomy
When Design Strikes the Right Note: How a Young Violinist Helped Shape an App for Musicians
Violinist Juli Bazzazi knows that perfect tuning is more than just technique. Together with app designer Kilian Günthner, she shows how creative collaboration between art and te...

Project: Flood Protection System

Project: Flood Protection System

Kölnische Rundschau (Newspaper)
Flood Protection Using Diaper Technology
Kilian Günthner from Mülheim earned an award for an invention inspired by diapers: he installed superabsorbers on doors that swell and seal gaps automatically when flooding occu...
Express (Newspaper)
Cologne Researcher Detects Explosives
September 2007: heavy rain; water runs under the front door and into the hallway. Kilian Günthner reached for a baby diaper and sealed the door with it. That was the beginning o...
Kölnische Rundschau (Newspaper)
Kilian Tackles Flooding with Diapers
Kilian Günthner focused on flood protection in the “Technology” category. His idea came after the September floods that left large parts of Bad Münstereifel under water. In man...
Kölnische Rundschau (Newspaper)
Bad Münstereifel: Kilian's “Diaper Patent” Wins Award
The best young researchers in North Rhine-Westphalia recently competed in Bochum at the junior division of Jugend forscht, Germany’s national science competition, known as Stude...

Project: Digital Reflected Light Microscope

Project: Digital Reflected Light Microscope

12-Year-Old Kilian Günthner Builds a Super Microscope from Simple “Ingredients”
Kilian Günthner from Stotzheim made it all the way to the top: he won first prize in the field of Technology at the North Rhine-Westphalia state competition Schüler experimentie...
Kölnische Rundschau (Newspaper)
Young Researcher with a Fan Club of His Own
At the 18th state-level Schüler experimentieren competition, the best young researchers from across North Rhine-Westphalia gathered at RWE. Among them was Kilian Günthner...
Kölner Stadtanzeiger (Newspaper)
Best in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Field of Technology
A high-quality reflected-light microscope typically costs between €10,000 and €100,000. Kilian set himself the ambitious goal of building one at a cost of only €200 to €300...