3MT: Three Minute Thesis Competition

And the winners are...

First place
Harini Lakshminarayanan
 
Runner-up
Gabriela R. Araujo
 
Audience Award
Daniel Barco

►  The competition is open to all PhD candidates matriculated at UZH. Participants will have only three minutes to bring the quintessence of their research across to a general audience.

►  Jury Awards (first place: 700 CHF, runner-up: 500 CHF); Audience Award (300 CHF).

►  Everyone is welcome to attend!

► 3MT: Three Minute Thesis

An academic contest of skills and expertise in the arena of science communication. Participants will have only three minutes to bring the quintessence of their research across to a general audience. 3MT origins (University of Queensland). 

► UZH 3MT Particpants 2023

          Qing Chen (Department of Informatics)
          Tülay Karakulak (Institute of Molecular Life Sciences)
          Marziyeh Bamdad (Department of Informatics)
          Harini Lakshminarayanan (Institute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology)
          Dylan Bastiaans (Paleontological Institute and Museum)
          Alexandra Matyunina (Department of Banking and Finance)
          Anna Westermair (Institute of Biomedical Ethics)
          Alec Hochstrasser (Institute of Parasitology)
          Peng Yan (Institute of Neuroinformatics)
          Daniel Barco (Department of Quantitative Biomedicine)
          Lukas Schwyter (Department of Quantitative Biomedicine)
          Gabriela Rodrigues Araujo (Physics Institute)
          Kien Nguyen (Department of Geography)
          Paulo Pereira (Institute of Experimental Immunology)
          Emina Ucambarlic (Department of Ophthalmology)
          Samira Müller (Institute of East Asian Studies)

► UZH 3MT Jury 2023

          Ave-Lii Idavain, Filmmaker & Science Communicator

          Boris Buzek, Program Manager at the Swiss National Science Foundation

          Doris Baumann, Postdoctoral Researcher and 3MT Award Winner

          Tobias Heilmann, Coach and Consultant for Early Career Researchers

► UZH 3MT Awards

          Jury Awards

               First place: 700 CHF

               Runner-up: 500 CHF

          Audience Award (people's choice)

               Winner: 300 CHF

► UZH 3MT Training / ECTS Credit

PhD candidates participating in both the 3MT Training and the 3MT Competition will receive 1 ECTS credit as part of the Graduate Campus Transferable Skills course program.

► U21 3MT

The best presentation (1st place, Jury Award) at the UZH 3MT Competition will go on to compete in the international Universitas 21 (U21) 3MT competition as a video submission in the fall.

► Overview of past 3MT award winners at UZH.