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| The eight finalists have had 180 seconds to persuade the jury with the most striking and important of their work using an informative language | Improving the mechanical properties of polymers and obtaining materials that are suitable for designing bone prostheses and that these can also be produced by novel methods such as 3D printing is the objective of the thesis by Cristian S nchez, winner of the 'Thesis in 3 minutes' contest, organized by the International Doctoral School (EINDOC) of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena. According to the jury, the materials used for bone prostheses are "aggressive and sometimes cause infections that can lead to death." In this sense, he has detailed that in the last decade in the world there have been more than 82,000 deaths from this cause.
"Very few materials meet the properties that a bone needs," he said, explaining that through the use of supermaterials such as polymers, it would be possible to develop prostheses that adapt to what needs each person and does not affect their health. The jury of the contest was made up of the Vice-rector for Research, Catalina Egea, the director of the Doctoral School, Pedro S nchez Palma, the deputy director of the Doctoral School, Mari Luz Mat , the head of the Doctoral School Comunicaci n, Blasi Navarro and the coordinator of the Scientific Culture Unit, Jos Luis Serrano.
They have been in charge of assessing the synthesis capacity of the candidates to highlight in three minutes the relevance and objectives of their research, as well as the rigor of the data presented and the ability to transmit to the p I public interest in his thesis. In this sense, the second place in the contest went to Francisca Marco Cutillas, who explained the importance of studying the oververting of dams to improve their safety conditions and avoid damage. In third place has been the researcher Ana Fern ndez Guillam n for her presentation on how renewable energies can help to react to the inconsistency of the electrical system, generating a better response and promoting the Most of the energy used comes from these energy sources. Finally, a second prize was awarded to Patricio Rubón Ortega, who has also presented a paper on dams.
He, specifically, is analyzing in the laboratory the phenomenon of aeration and biphasic flows in dams and how energy is generated. The first prize is endowed with 800 euros; the second, with 600; the third, with 500, in addition to an acc sit with 200 euros. In the competition, 8 researchers were finalists out of the 21 candidates who submitted to the competition.
Cristian S nchez Rodr guez, Francisca Marco Cutillas, Mara Bar n Yusti, Ana Fern ndez Guillam n, Jos Sebasti n Vel zquez Bl zquez, Carlos Alberto Toledo Arias, Patricio Rub participated in the final n Ortega Lara and Kerras Hayet.
Six of the competitors are engineers, one of them an architect and, among them, a graduate.
Two are international students. The 3MT® competition was originally developed in 2008 by the University of Queensland (Australia) as an exercise for PhD students to cultivate their skills in academics, presentation and communication of research results .
Since then, different universities around the world have replicated this initiative.
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