Thesis Talk 2025

(de izquierda a derecha, Yannick Sztamfater, segundo premio; Diego Serrano, primer premio, y Gretel Castillo, tercer premio de Thesis Talk 2025)

The final session of Thesis Talk 2025 took place on June 16th from 12:00pm at the Lecture Hall (Salón de Grados) at the Auditorium (Padre Soler Building) in Leganés campus. Thesis Talk is the annual contest at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid where our PhD students present their thesis project in front of a non-specialized audience in less than 4 minutes.

The jury awarded with 900, 600 and 300 euros, respectively, the three highest-ranked presentations, which were:

First prize: Diego Serrano Ortega - PhD in Statistics for Data Science - "El bosque que escucha a los aviones"

Second prize: Yannick Sztamfater García - PhD in Aerospace Engineering - "Satellites, a species at risk of extinction"

Third prize: Gretel Castillo Figueroa - PhD in Humanities - "La Antigüedad clásica en la pintura de vanguardia cubana"

Congratulations on the good work!

The final was broadcasted live via YouTube streaming and can be watched in its entirety here: Thesis Talk 2025 Final

These are the rest of presentations shortlisted for the final:

Carmen Ballester Bernabeu - PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation - "La imitación es la forma más sincera de admiración."

Carolina Mª Martín Santos - PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation - "Hacia una red eléctrica estable y sostenible."

Christian Israel Ruiz Pérez - PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Organization - "¿Cómo podemos ser mejores conductores?"

Ester Martínez Sanzo - PhD in Media Research - "El reto de la inteligencia artificial a través de los medios."

Javier Borau Bernad - PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation - "Infraestructuras inteligentes para una movilidad más eficiente."

Javier Lorca Hernando - PhD in Multimedia and Communications - "FM-OFDM: Desafiando el efecto Doppler mediante una nueva forma de onda para comunicaciones."

Javier Otero Martínez - PhD in Signal Processing and Communications Engineering - "Antenas Líquidas: fluyendo hacia nuevas formas de comunicación."

Marcos Rodríguez Sánchez - PhD in Materials Science and Engineering - "Additive Manufacturing of Fe-based Metallic Glasses."

Mireia Andueza - PhD in Signal Processing and Communications Engineering - "Detección temprana de cáncer de páncreas con Biopsia Líquida e Inteligencia Artificial."

Pilar González - PhD in Statistics for Data Science - "Datos que salvan vidas: explorando la genética del cáncer."

Raquel Ruiz Incertis - PhD in Media Research - "¿Cómo influyen los medios de comunicación en nuestra imagen de la Unión Europea?"

Sara Temsamani - PhD in Media Research - "Cine, nación y poscolonialismo. Imaginarios fílmicos del Marruecos independiente (1956-1979)."

Xinyi Chu - PhD in Humanities - "El pasado no ha desaparecido: el Antiguo Régimen persiste en la modernización."

Below you may find all the presentations that participated in the contest, sorted by research area:

Social Sciences

PhD in Economics

Orlando Diaz Rivera - Inmigración, redes y mercado laboral

PhD in Economic History

Alexandre Macedo João - State Intervention and the Role of Institutions: Analysing the impact on the Iberian Cereal Sector (19th and 20th Centuries)

Humanities, Communication and Library Science

PhD in Humanitis

Guillermo Martínez Valdunquillo - Espectros del espacio: representaciones del paisaje estadounidense en el cine documental contemporáneo

Victorino López Iglesias - El deporte como herramienta para construir una nación política. El caso español.

Xinyi Chu - El pasado no ha desaparecido: el Antiguo Régimen persiste en la modernización

Gretel Castillo Figueroa - La Antigüedad clásica en la pintura de vanguardia cubana

PhD in Media research

Felipe Núñez Sánchez - Perfiles de percepción ante el cambio climático: cuatro formas de interpretar la amenaza

Ester Martínez Sanzo - El reto de la inteligencia artificial a través de los medios

Raquel Ruiz Incertis - ¿Cómo influyen los medios de comunicación en nuestra imagen de la Unión Europea?

Sara Temsamani - Cine, nación y poscolonialismo. Imaginarios fílmicos del Marruecos independiente (1956-1979)

Law

PhD in Law

Blanca Escribano Cañas - La gobernanza ética de la inteligencia artificial en las organizaciones

Carlos Aguilar - Luego de las tinieblas espero la luz

María Alejandra Albarracín - El cerebro humano y el derecho a la libertad de pensamiento versus las neurotecnologías

Pedro Aránguez Díaz - La sostenibilidad en el comercio internacional: tomándose los derechos en serio

PhD in Advanced Studies in Human Rights

Claudia Aniballi - Neurotecnologías y derechos humanos: ¿Estamos preparados?

Felipe Romero Rueda - Cuando el “desarrollo” justifica la barbarie: la responsabilidad de las empresas en la degradación ambiental durante los conflictos armados

Sciences and Engineering

PhD in Statistics for Data Science

Diego Serrano Ortega - Metric statistics

Pilar González - Datos que salvan vidas: explorando la genética del cáncer

PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Raúl Quibén Figueroa - A small solution for mitigating aviation's climate impact

Tani Angiero - The hidden danger in operating rooms: how fluid dynamics and AI can save lives

Yannick Sztamfater Garcia - Satellites, a species at risk of extinction

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation

Adela Collado Rodríguez - Climate Change: What the atmosphere is telling us

Andrés Cela - Abriendo puertas

Ángel Hernández García - La modelización multifísica de sistemas de almacenamiento de energía electroquímica

Carlos Wijnakker Aguilera - Descarbonización sin Apagones en Sistemas Eléctricos Insulares

Carmen Ballester Bernabeu - La imitación es la forma más sincera de admiración

Carolina Mª Martín Santos - Hacia una red eléctrica estable y sostenible

Daniel Moreno París - Beyond the Surface of Materials: THz meets Machine Learning

Gabriela Cordova - Revolucionando la Conducción Autónoma: IA para un Tráfico Urbano Más Seguro

Hilario Espinós Martínez - Control cuántico desde el interior de un diamante

Javier Borau Bernad - Infraestructuras inteligentes para una movilidad más eficiente

Kaleem Arshid - UAV Swarm Trajectory Design for Wireless Networks Using Genetic Algorithm-Driven Repulsion Forces

Nicole Andrea Continelli Flores - Enhancing soft robot performance with AI

Raúl Fernández Matellán - Personas e Inteligencia Artificial: conduciendo en equipo

Saleemullah Memon - Blockages Prediction for Intelligent Transportation Systems under Joint Sensing and Communication Framework

Silvia Delgado Sánchez - Estabilidad en sistemas eléctricos dominados por electrónica de potencia

Vafali Soltanmuradov - StabilEdge: Enhancing Edge AI with Formal Verification

Víctor Muñoz - Robótica que sale del armario

PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Organization

Christian Israel Ruiz Pérez - ¿Cómo podemos ser mejores conductores?

Darío Pardillos Pobo - Concentrated Solar Power: The Flexible Renewable with Storage, Inertia, and Synchronous Generation

Farshad Afshari - Removable and Smarter Tires for a Greener Planet

PhD in Multimedia and Communications

Javier Lorca Hernando - FM-OFDM: Desafiando el efecto Doppler mediante una nueva forma de onda para comunicaciones

PhD in Signal Processing and Communications Engineering

Alejandro Lopez Barrios - Your Lights Are Listening

Clara Álvarez - Inteligencia Artificial Interpretable para la predicción de vientos extremos

Javier Otero Martínez - Antenas Líquidas: fluyendo hacia nuevas formas de comunicación

Lucía Schmidt Santiago - Teaching AI to Imagine Bacteria: Generating MALDI-TOF Spectra with Deep Learning

Mireia Andueza - Detección temprana de cáncer de páncreas con Biopsia Líquida e Inteligencia Artificial

Sebastian Diaz Beiza - Antenas para aplicaciones multibanda y de alta frecuencia en redes futuras

Yudong Li - Research on Massive MIMO Hybrid Beamforming Based on Deep Learning

THESIS TALK 2025

Thesis Talk 2025 - Call (English version) - Terms and conditions of the call (English version available for informational purposes for non-Spanish-speaking candidates) -

Through Thesis Talk, our Ph.D. candidates are welcome to present their research projects before a non-specialist audience in just 4 minutes, focusing on the what, how and why of their research. A single static slide is permitted to enhance their presentation. Participants can choose the language of their presentation (English or Spanish).

THESIS TALK is inspired by Three Minute Thesis (3MT), originally created by the University of Queensland (Australia) in 2008, and replicated by more than 200 universities around the globe. Through this initiative, the Doctoral School highlights the importance of the research projects carried out by our PhD students and encourages their dissemination through a format and language adapted to the non-specialized audience.

Thesis Talk 2025 is open to all our students enrolled in a Ph.D. program during the 2024/2025 academic year, including those who have participated in previous editions.

This year’s edition will consist of two stages: an online pre-selection and an on-site final event.

If you are interested in submitting your candidacy, you must complete the application in two steps:

- Filling and submitting the application form before March 14th 2025 (23:59 CET)

You need to attach this authorization of participation form, signed by your thesis director

- Send your presentation video + static slide to escueladoctorado@uc3m.es (may be as file attachments or links to cloud storage) before May 5th 2025 (23:59 CET)

IMPORTANT: Due to the widespread interruption in the electricity supply and in accordance with art. 32.4 of Law 39/2015, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, all administrative deadlines whose computation is affected by the interruption of the electricity supply that occurred on April 28 and 29, 2025, are extended by (2) business days.

Therefore, the deadline to submit applications has been extended to May 7th 2025

Thesis Talk is a 2-credit activity of our research skills training program (formación transversal). Registration is free.

How to participate

Participants are required to submit their presentations for the preselection on a digital format with the following features:

Language: Spanish or English (minimum level of language proficiency required: C1 or equivalent).
Time limit: 4 minutes. Presentations over that limit will be disregarded.
Participants can freely choose the title of the presentation.It can also be different from that of the thesis.
A single static slide (PowerPoint or similar) is permitted. The slide cannot feature any dynamic elements (transitions, animations…), participant’s name, title of presentation or any academic or professional affiliations
The slide will not be inserted in the video but submitted to the Doctoral School as a separate file to be edited later.
No additional electronic media (e.g. sound and video files) is permitted.
No additional props (costumes, musical instruments, laboratory equipment) are permitted.
Presentations must be spoken (no poems, raps or songs). Quotes can be included if relevant to the thesis topic.

Technical features:

Recording can be made on any device (cell phone, PC, camera, etc.)
Horizontal orientation
Format: mp4
The video cannot be cut or edited (except for cuts at the beginning and the end to remove minor details (i.e. the moment where the camera is turned on and off)

Recommendations:

Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Centered, medium shot (from chest upwards)
Background should be neutral or blurred as to center the attention in the speaker.
It is recommended to record the video in a quiet interior environment, with natural daylight, and avoid artificial or back lighting.

Recommended time allocation:

15-50 seconds: scope and purpose of the project
120-150 seconds: student’s contribution, methodology and outcomes
30-60 seconds: significance and contribution of the outcomes

Preparation

Participants can prepare their presentation in two ways:

1- Preparatory workshops of the Doctoral School (optional)

Workshop in Spanish (6 hours).

Teacher: Mercedes Cavanillas

Monday 7 and Thursday 10 April from 10:30h to 13:30h, online, 12 seats

This workshop is a reduced version of the workshop “Efficient presentations” from our catalog of research skills training (formación transversal).

Workshop in English (6 hours). Minimum English level required: C1 or equivalent.

Teacher: Trisha Ballsrud

--- Tuesday 1st and Thursday 3 April from 10:00h a 13:00h , on-site (Leganés campus), 6 seats

Free registration. To sign up for these workshops:

- Applicants must check this option on the registration form.

- The language of the workshop must be the same as the presentation.

- Places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

- Commitment to attend both sessions is required.

2- Self-preparation. The following material can be useful:

Thesis Talk (previous editions): 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016

3MT Presentations | The University of Queensland (Australia)

3MT Presentations | University of Warwick (Reino Unido)

3MT Presentations | Aarhus University (Dinamarca)

How to win the 3MT. Original from thesiswhisperer.com

Giving oral presentations ( nature education)

Stages

Pre-selection (estimated for second half of May)

Once the registration has been completed, videos will be shared only with the members of the Jury designated by the Dean of the Doctoral School. The Jury will evaluate the videos and select a shortlist of 15* participants to qualify for the final. The videos will be publicly available then.

*Number is subject to change according to the Jury’s criteria.

Final (scheduled for June 16th 2025)

Finalists will deliver their presentation in person. A jury of experts will assess the presentations and choose the three best according to the evaluation criteria established in these contest rules. The jury’s decision will be announced at the end of the final.

ON-SITE FINAL EVENT: Please keep in mind that if your presentation is selected for the Final, it is an event that requires your presence at the University on the indicated date. You will not be able to participate remotely.

Evaluation criteria

The presentation must:

Focus on research work and personal contribution.
Provide understanding of background and significance of research.
Describe methodology and key results of research
Follow a clear, logical sequence.

The presenter must:

Capture the attention of the audience: presence, eye contact, vocal range, pace, confident stance..
Use an appropriate language for a non-specialist audience, without trivializing the research.

The slide must: