Three Minute Thesis Winner 2024

Ferdinando Sereno (Engineering Sciences) at UCL presents his winning Three Minute Thesis presentation: "Development and production of a stable encapsulin-based mRNA vaccine".
An 80,000-word thesis would take 9 hours to present. Their time limit… 3 minutes!
The 3MT competition asks Doctoral candidates to present their research in just three minutes, in language appropriate to non-specialists, and with only one single presentation slide to support them. Can it be done? Scroll down and find out.
Doctoral candidates competed in faculty heats from February to May 2024 with the winner and runner-up from each Faculty Heat progressing to the UCL 3MT® Institutional Final, which took place on Wednesday 5 June as part of the Doctoral School Showcase Day.