Saturday full of science stories! Results of eliminations for the 3MT® competition
The eliminations for the 8th Silesian edition of the three Minute Thesis® competition are behind us. A record number of participants took part in eliminations! More than 30 PhD students from 6 research centres talked about their research projects. 10 finalists, whose speeches will be presented during the finals on November 28th at the Silesian University of Technology Library, were selected.
Young scientists want to talk about science “in layman’s terms,” that is, in a clear, understandable way, easy for the audience to follow. This is evidenced by the number of people who applied for this year’s edition of the three Minute Thesis® competition in Silesia. The Saturday eliminations were attended by over 30 PhD students: from the Silesian University of Technology, the University of Silesia in Katowice, the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, the University of Economics in Katowice, the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The jury selected 10 finalists:
Angelika Auguścik (Silesian University of Technology)
Daria Bal-Madej (Silesian University of Technology)
Izabella Biesiada (Silesian University of Technology)
Sandra Binek (Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa)
Anna Hepa-Banasik (Medical University of Silesia in Katowice)
Mateusz Janecki (Silesian University of Technology)
Maria Lukosek (University of Silesia in Katowice)
Adam Mazurski (Medical University of Silesia in Katowice)
Anna Mrukwa (Silesian University of Technology)
Wojciech Sawicki (University of Silesia in Katowice)
The topics of the presentations during the elimination were extremely diverse. Young scientists talked about dialog with artificial intelligence, the era of digital humanities, liver disease treatment, animal implants, urban space design, marketing, and many other issues.
The doctoral candidates’ speeches were assessed by a jury composed of:
- Dr Katarzyna Sujkowska, Prof. of the University of Silesia – linguist from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia, president of the Agere Aude Foundation for Knowledge and Social Dialogue,
- Dr Hab. Eng. Sandra Grabowska, Prof SUT – Deputy Director of the Science Popularization Centre Vice-Dean for Infrastructure and Organization of the Faculty of Materials Engineering and Industry Digitization of the Silesian University of Technology,
- Dr Hab. Eng. Robert Michnik – scientist from the Department of Biomechatronics of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology.
The finals of the 8th Silesian edition of the three Minute Thesis® competition will take place on November 28th at 18:00 in the Library of the Silesian University of Technology. It will also be broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Silesian University of Technology.
The organizer of the Silesian edition of three Minute Thesis® is the Science Popularization Centre of the Silesian University of Technology in cooperation with the University Self-Government of Doctoral Students and the Doctoral School of Silesian University of Technology. Media patronage over the competition was taken by the “Science in Poland” service. The patron of the event is EURECA-PRO.
For more information go to: https://www.polsl.pl/rjo7-cpn/wp-content/uploads/sites/761/2025/11/Lista-wystapien-3MT-2025-eliminacje.pdf
Text by Aleksandra Wojaczek
