Moroccan Jihane Kenfaoui won today, October 7, the prize in the “My thesis in 180 seconds” competition, the French version of the Australian model “Three-minute thesis”, held in Canada.
The “My thesis in 180 seconds” competition takes place at the University of Queensland in Canada, where post-doctoral students present their research topic in simple words to a diverse and uninitiated audience. As stated in the rules, each student must make a clear, short but compelling presentation of their research project in no more than three minutes. And all this using a single slide.
Jihan Kenfaoui is a doctoral student at the University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah of Fez, at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies in Fez, and The Department of Phytopathology, National School of Agriculture Meknes. She is doing her Ph.D. research in the “survey and diagnosis of the phytosanitary state of the vine and development of alternative control methods”. Thanks to her research and her skills, she could explain that complex topic in less than 3 minutes, competing with 20 other finalists from different French-speaking countries.