Scientific culture "My Thesis in 3 minutes" - Our doctoral students present their research work... in English!

For the first time, UNITA is organizing a thesis popularization competition based on the French "Ma Thèse en 180 secondes" model. For this first edition of My 3-min PhD Thesis, four female and one male doctoral students will take part in the exercise, presenting their thesis in 3 minutes and... in English!

The selection for theuniversité Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB) will take place on Thursday June 15, 2023 at 2pm at theIAE Annecy (Amphi 12). Candidates will present their work to a jury of professionals from the academic, business and media worlds.

Participants in 2023

• Joyce DE SOUSA, doctoral student, member of the Computer Science, Systems, Information and Knowledge Processing Laboratory (LISTIC)
  Her thesis is entitled "Planning and steering the massive territorial deployment of urban solar energy".
• Hervé DI DOMENICO, doctoral student at the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité (LIBM)
  His thesis is entitled "OPEX-FHA: Optimizing the physical condition, cognitive capacities and health of military personnel during the first weeks of OPEX deployment: Fatigue and innovative considerations in the coupling of hypoxia training and pre-heat acclimatization".
• Ella LOUIS, doctoral student member of the Laboratoire InterUniversitaire de Psychologie. Personality, Cognition, Social Change (LIP/PC2S)
  Her thesis is entitled "Adolescents, sleep and risk-taking: a family approach".
• Rowena MATHEW, doctoral student at theInstitut de Recherche en Gestion et en Économie (IREGE )
  Her thesis is entitled "Electric vehicles and storage opportunities".
• Blandine PICHON, PhD student at the LISTIC ( Computer Science, Systems, Information and Knowledge Processing Laboratory )
  Her thesis is entitled "Artificial Intelligence methods to help measure sensory disorders in autism".

The jury

Candidates will present their work to a jury of professionals from the worlds of academia, business and the media, who will select the two doctoral candidates who will take part in the international final in Pau on September 22, 2023.

They will be competing alongside candidates selected by member universities of the UNITA alliance:Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA),Università degli studi di Torino (Italy),Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain),Universidade da Beira Interior (Portugal), Universitatea de Vest Din Timisoara (Romania), Università degli studi di Brescia (Italy), Universitatea Transilvania (Romania), and Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain).

About the competition

To prepare for this competition, 12 hours of coaching and training are planned, as for the French version of the competition. They are led by Pascale Balland, in charge of scientific and technical culture at USMB, as well as Jacques Jaussaud and Jean-Marc Sotiropoulos fromUniversité de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA).

This highly formative experience enables doctoral students to strengthen their oral communication skills with an English-speaking audience, and in future, thanks to the Alliance UNITA, to give greater visibility to their research work, both in France and internationally.

To know more about it

• Review the performances of USMB candidates at the pre-selection of the national competition last February.