On March 27, 15 candidates from the University of Bordeaux took up the challenge by presenting their research project in 180 seconds, in simple terms to a lay audience.
Tailor-made training
Popularising their research, working on their body language and their speeches... Before taking to the stage at the Agora on March 27, PhD students received training in writing and public speaking, coordinated by the Graduate Research School, to help them pitch their topic, capture the audience's attention and convince.
University of Bordeaux's finalists
With passion, humor, metaphors, cultural references... and using a single slide, the PhD students brillantly performed a clear, concise and convincing presentation of their research in 3 minutes, in front of an audience including high school students and a jury.
It was an opportunity for the audience to discover a varied overview of research at the University of Bordeaux: economic sciences; neuroscience; cancer biology; public law; sedimentary geology, paleoceanography and climatology; lasers, matter and nanosciences; automation, production theory, signal and image processing, cognitive engineering; chemistry and technologies of living systems; public health; geochemistry and ecotoxicology; management sciences; computer science; physical chemistry.
During the final, 3 candidates in particular convinced the audience and the jury:
- Amine ES-SOUFI: audience's award, for his research thesis on the topic: "Behavioral analysis of clay dominated pavement soils under the effect of drought"
- Laura VIAUD: jury's first award, for her research thesis on the topic: "Dynamics of hydrogen interaction on tungsten surfaces: quantum or classical?"
- Sylvain DUFAU: jury's second award, for his research thesis on the topic: "Monitoring multi-physic by integrated sensors for predictive infrastructure maintenance"
It was a pleasure and an honor [...] to listen to these young researchers performing their presentation. I am impressed because it's a lot of work to be able to synthesize [...] months of work in 3 minutes.
Regional final in La Rochelle
Amine, Laura and Sylvain will represent the University of Bordeaux at the regional final in La Rochelle on April 10. They will compete with candidates from the University of Limoges, the University of Poitiers, the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, the University of Bordeaux Montaigne and La Rochelle University. The finalists will compete to qualify for the national final of the "My thesis in 180 seconds" contest.
Congratulations to all the candidates from the University of Bordeaux!