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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.
The newest winners of Science's annual Dance your Ph.D. contest are Jakub Kubečka, Ivo Neefjes and Vitus Besel, researchers studying atmospheric sciences.
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Finnish scientists Vitus Besel, Ivo Neefjes, and Jakub Kubečka (left to right) created a rap video about atmospheric molecule clusters that won this year’s Dance Your Ph.D. contest. Faustine Cros
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Mar. 3, 2021 , 10:00 AM
You may never look at clouds the same way again. A video created by three atmospheric science graduate students at the University of Helsinki features an original rap song and choreography explaining how groups of atoms stick together to form the billowy shapes in our sky. And it has just won
Science’s annual “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest.