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A team of students from the University of Helsinki, led by Czech PhD researcher Jakub Kubečka, has won this year’s annual contest Dance Your PhD, organised by the prestigious US magazine Science. The winning video, called Molecular Clusters, features an original rap song and dance explaining how groups of molecules stick together to form clouds.
The trio of research students from the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research at the University of Helsinki, including Jakub Kubečka, Ivo Neefjes and Vitus Besel, won both the physics category and the top prize.
They were selected by a jury composed of previous winners and world-renowned artists and scientists for presenting the best combination of science and art, beating 39 competitors and pocketing a cheque for $2000.
These PhD students won a prize for rapping about molecular clusters on a rooftop
University of Helsinki graduate student Jakub Kubecka has won Science magazine’s annual “Dance your PhD” contest for his video Molecular Clusters, which he wrote and performed with fellow students Ivo Neefjes and Vitus Besel.
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Posted: Mar 04, 2021 6:06 PM ET | Last Updated: March 4
From left to right, Vitus Besel, Ivo Neefjes and Jakub Kubecka shoot the video for Molecular Clusters at the University of Helsinki. The video won Science magazine s annual Dance Your PhD award. (Faustine Cros )
Yes, the song by Finnish researcher Jakub Kubecka features ‘endearingly crude’ dance on a rooftop and the immortal line ‘I’m the first author, you’re just et al’