CSET Thesis in Three
In the Sugar Club yesterday evening, 19 PhD students from 6 SFI funded CSETs gave their elevator pitches for their PhD in the CSET Thesis in Three competition, which ran as part of Innovation Dublin.
CLARITY research featured very well, with Sarah Hughes, a CLARITY PhD student from DCU winning third overall prize for her presentation on “Effect of exercise on vascular health” and Anthony Schoofs winning second overall prize and third in the commercialisation prizes for his presentation on “Stripping your electricity bill”.
The first overall prize went to Fiona Young from CRANN for her presentation “Carbon nanotube fibres-A new spin on nature’s web”.
Run by CLARITY and CNGL, about 100 audience members were entertained by bite-sized pieces of research projects in 3 slides of 3 minutes each. The event was sponsored by the participating CSETS: CLARITY, CNGL, CRANN, SBI, Lero and BDI as well as UCD, Snap Printing Donnybrook and the campus bookshop.
The judging panel consisted of: Stephen Flinter from SFI, Michael McAleer from the Irish Times and Ben Hurley from the NDRC. The event was expertly MC’d by Virginia Perry-Smith from Disney Research.
