Early career researcher flash talk competition

• Wednesday 30 April
• 16.00-17.30
• Earth Institute kitchen, 4th floor UCD Science East

The annual UCD Earth Institute competition for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working on environmental, climate and sustainability topics is one of the highlights of our spring calendar. Participants give a quickfire two-minute presentation on their research, with a judges' prize, audience choice prize as well as an award for most creative performance. 

This year's speakers

1. Mattie Purinton: The foraging ecology and conservation of African vultures
2. Julius Busse: Why maths matters in environmental research: Predicting particle transport in ocean pollution
3. Zeting Li: Assessing global urban risks to current and future climate changes
4. Sneha Unnikrishnan: From bark to barn: Fermenting wood waste into animal nutrition
5. Jingyu Xiang: Charging station location problems for electric vehicles
6. Niamh Burke: The Curse of Knowledge: Designing accessible scientific tools through community collaboration
7. David Ramírez Solana: Turning trash into silence: Metamaterial noise barriers from recycled plastic
8. Nakisa Soltani: Cycling Commuting: part commute, part adrenaline sport?
9. Muhammad Saqlain: Development of a DAS-based slope monitoring approach
10. Fulya Islek: Climate change and wind energy potential in the Mediterranean region
11. Virginia Morera-Pujol: Badgers on trial: protect or prosecute?
12. Ciara Lynch: Bioplastics from cheese waste?! Microscopic recycling factories at work