Milica Zivanic, representative of the UPC in the "Present your thesis in 4 minutes" contest

PhD student Milica Zivanic has been chosen as a representative of the UPC for the "Present your thesis in 4 minutes" contest, organized by the Fundació Catalana per la Recerca i la Innovació, with the collaboration of Generalitat de Catalunya.

The purpose of the competition is to propose to PhD students, of any scientific discipline, the challenge to explain their research for a maximum time of 4 minutes with a simple and easily understandable language for a general public.

Milica has been chosen as representative of the UPC by a jury of 5 member during the Institutional Final contest, which was held on May 12th at the Vèrtex Building, along with the Open Day of the Doctorate School.

The Interuniversity final of the contest will take around June, in a date and location yet to be determined.

To find out more about Milica's thesis, "Fighting cancer with plasma and hydrogels", co-directed by Dr. Cristina Canal and Dr. Abraham Lin (Universiteit Antwerpen), you can watch last Friday's presentation here  ⬇️ (minute 1:16:10)

 Or you can also take a look to Milica's 1-minute presentation video, "Cancer treatment written in the stars" here ⬇️