The 2nd EURAXESS Science Slam concluded.
Our five finalists were all fantastic and full of originality. In the end, Wang Yanting from Peking University won the audience over with her "Story of Addiction" and will go to Europe for a scientific tour!
Thanks to all the brilliant finalists, enthusiastic public, swirling waiters and waitresses, cool sound technicians, authentic kung fu masters and distinguished jury members for a memorable evening!
A science slam is a scientific talk where researchers compete to present their work in front of a non-expert audience.
The EURAXESS Science Slam 2014 will take place on 6th November 2014 in Beijing. Five researchers from across China will compete for the main prize in an evening full of original presentations.
It will be you who decides whose slam performance is the best. You will have the power to judge the creativity, originality and style of the five slammers, out of which only ONE will become the winner! Come, bring your friends and see for yourself how to make science most accessible, creative and fun!
Free drinks and food are included.
It is an OPEN EVENT - but better register by clicking on the pink RSVP button above, to secure a seat. The capacity is limited!
Update: We are pleased to announce that the scientific jury has selected the lucky five who will compete for the main prize !
The five slam finalists are (...drums...) :
- AMBROSI Raymond - From the Boxer Uprising to Cultural Resurgence- The Underground Plum Flower Boxers and the Rejuvenation of Community Life in Rural North China
- DENG Zhuo - 'Who stole my electrons?' - Electron Loss Process in 3rd Generation Solar Cells
- FLORES Nahiely - Numerical Models in Astrophysics
- LI Miaoyan - Bitcoin, Its Development and Risks
- WANG Yanting - A Story about Addiction
EURAXESS Science Slam across the world in 2013
Dr. Yu Yang from Wuhan became the winner in China with a slam presenting landscape design and floating wetland treatment to increase public space in Wuhan.
Milene Möller, Ph.D. student in Genetics and Plant Breeding at the University of Sao Paolo, became the winner in Brazil. She talked about her research on soybean resistance to stink bugs.
Dr. Jibby from Thailand won in ASEAN with a rap song about her work developing a vaccine to combat Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea Virus. She travelled to Europe, met with the team at Institut Pasteur and bagged a Franco-Thai Fellowship!.
EURAXESS is a European Commissions' Directorate-General for Research and Innovation initiative supporting researchers. Find us on china.euraxess.org
In Japan, doctoral student Mugiko Komatsuda won with her slam "How Physical Exercises Affect Obesity and Overeating" (Lee Wolgar, EURAXESS Links Japan representative, on the right)
Ms Shraddha Karve, Ph.D. student at IISER Pune, won in India with a slam called ‘Master of all trades is jack of none’. "Thinking about evolution in E. coli in terms of Wolverine and Calvin and Hobbes, rather than error bars and sample sizes, was a pleasant change," says Ms Karve.
Ms. Katrien Kolenberg, Ph.D. is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA. She won in North America with her slam called "Stellar Sounds" on astroseismology.
