The second edition of the ‘3 Minute Thesis’ competition has 12 finalists, including Renata Castelo Branco, a Computer Science and Engineering PhD student at Instituto Superior Técnico. The final of the competition will take place at the National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, on June 6th.

Renata Castelo Branco will present her research conducted at the Algorithmic Design for Architecture group, where she develops mechanisms that make programming easier for architects. The PhD student conducts her research at the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), a research unit affiliated to Técnico.

This competition challenges PhD students from the 18 Schools of Universidade de Lisboa to explain the impact of their research to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes using a single slide.