The "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" competition, inspired by the "Three minute thesis", conceived at the University of Queensland in Australia, is organized in France by France Universités, the CNRS, and the University of Lyon. Doctoral students have three minutes to present and explain their thesis topic in a clear, entertaining and accessible way. It is possible to attend the national final, which will take place on May 31 at the Bourse du Travail in Lyon, or to follow it online. The astrophysicist Hélène Courtois will be the godmother of this event, Isabelle Bonardi, Amélie Cordier, Paul Dequidt, Axel Villard-Faure will be part of the jury. For this 9th edition, 28 university groups and universities have organized the first stage of the "My thesis in 180 seconds" competition in their institutions. Nearly 600 doctoral students participated in this "regional" final, 58 of whom won the jury's first prize or the public's prize and were selected for the semi-final held in Paris in early April. The 16 finalists will now compete in Lyon on May 31. After the journalist Fred Courant in 2021, it is the astrophysicist Hélène Courtois, professor at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, very invested in the transmission of knowledge, who will be the godmother of this final 2022. The public will be able to attend this event free of charge on site, within the limits of available seats, or live from 6:30 pm on the Facebook page, the YouTube channel and on the competition website. Internet users will be able to vote for their favorite finalist and contribute to his or her winning the "public prize". High school students from the Lyon Academy will also be present at the event and will vote for their favorite finalist, who will then win the "high school students' prize". Finally, three prizes will be awarded by the jury composed of :
  • Isabelle Bonardi, Director of Pop'Sciences, Culture, Science and Society Department of the University of Lyon
  • Amélie Cordier, researcher in artificial intelligence and president of the Lyon-iS-Ai collective
  • Paul Dequidt, PhD in signal and image processing,1st prize of the jury and public prize of the national final of MT180 2021
  • Axel Villard-Faure, science journalist and program manager in the Discovery & Knowledge unit of ARTE France
  • The 5th member of the jury, representing the world of research, will soon be known.
The winner of the jury's first prize will represent France at the international final in Montreal, Quebec, on October 6. Co-hosted by Emilie Martin du Fou, science journalist for Ciel & Espace and France 5, and Pierre Girard, science journalist at ARTE, this final will also reward the three jury prizes by offering them a day's immersion in ARTE France's Discovery & Knowledge unit.

The 16 finalists of the contest :

Yaovi Jean-Pierre ADJIKPO The legal aspects of the labelling of seafood products University of Western Brittany Laboratory for the management of marine and coastal resources and spaces (Université Bretagne Occidentale/Ifremer) Review his performance Samantha AGUILLON Role of the ecology and population dynamics of the Lesser Molossus of Réunion in the circulation of infectious agents University of La Réunion Laboratory of Infectious Processes in Tropical Island Environments (CNRS/University of La Réunion/Inserm/IRD) Review his performance Julien BERTHE Morphologies and landscapes of the Montagne de Reims, contribution of spatial analysis under GIS of lidar images University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne Study group on geomaterials and natural, anthropic and archaeological environments (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne) Review his performance Esther BOISSIN Debunking intuitions and promoting logic in adult and adolescent populations University of Paris Cité Laboratory of Child Development and Education Psychology (CNRS/Université Paris Cité) Review his performance Oscar COSSERAT Geometric integrators in Poisson geometry La Rochelle University Laboratory of Engineering Sciences for the Environment (CNRS/La Rochelle University) Review his performance Anne COUSIN Nanobodies for the detection and resistance to viruses responsible for vine diseases University of Strasbourg Institute of Plant Molecular Biology (CNRS) Review his performance Pierre Damien FOUGOU Electronic money in the European, African sub-regional and OHADA banking spaces University of Bordeaux Research Institute of Business Law and Heritage (University of Bordeaux) Review his performance Natacha GUYADER Stability monitoring of model cosmetic emulsions through a multi-scale/physical characterization for a better understanding of aging and preservation processes CY Cergy Paris University Systems and Applications of Information and Energy Technologies Laboratory (CNRS/CY Cergy Paris Université/ENS Paris-Saclay/Cnam/Université Paris-Saclay) Review his performance Isabelle HOXHA Neurocognitive mechanisms of perceptual anticipation in decision making University of Paris-Saclay Complexity, Innovation, Motor and Sports Activities Laboratory (Université Paris Saclay) Review his performance Daniela KREBBER How does biodiversity influence the response of tropical forests to climate change? University of Guyana Laboratories Ecology of forests in French Guiana (CNRS/AgroParisTech/INRAE/Cirad/University of Guiana) and Botany and modelling of plant and vegetation architecture (CNRS/Cirad/INRAE/IRD/University of Montpellier) Review his performance Bastien MARGUET Modeling the birth of grain boundaries in two-dimensional materials: application to graphene Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 Institut lumière matière (CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) Review his performance Emilie MAUDUIT Sociality and phenotypic plasticity in spiders University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier Research Center on Animal Cognition (CNRS/ University Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier) Review his performance Alphanie MIDELET Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome with continuous positive airway pressure: study of remote monitoring data to understand the impact of treatment modifications and predict acute events Grenoble Alpes University Hypoxia and cardiovascular and respiratory physiopathologies laboratory (Inserm/Grenoble Alpes University) Review his performance Charlotte MONTILLOT Identifying the role of VPS13B in the central nervous system University of Burgundy Franche-Comté Lipids, nutrition, cancer laboratory (University of Burgundy/Inserm/UBFC) Review his performance Anais PERRICHET Targeting IL-1 to increase the efficacy of chemoimmunotherapy in cancer University of Burgundy Franche-Comté Lipids, nutrition and cancer laboratory (University of Burgundy/Inserm/UBFC) Review his performance Maxime ROBIC Visual servoing of a satellite constellation University of Rennes 1 Research Institute in Computer Science and Random Systems (CNRS/University of Rennes 1) Review his performance Translated from La finale de « Ma thèse en 180 secondes » aura lieu à Lyon le 31 mai prochain

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