U21 3MT® 2025/26 Competition

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3MT Showcase and Winners

3MT First Place Winner –
Lie Wen, National University of Singapore

3MT Highly Commended –
Alexandra Boese, University of Glasgow

3MT People’s Choice Winner –
Francisca Durán, UC Chile

AI as a Walking Partner? Exploring International Students' Use of AI to Support their Academic English Needs

Franciele Spinelli

The University of Queensland 

Finding the Glimmer of Alien Worlds with GLINT

Stephanie Rossini-Bryson

The University of Sydney 

Harnessing Powerful Lasers to Help Build a Fish Tank of the Universe

Smrithan Ravichandran

University of Maryland 

Cool Roofs for Climate Change

Noah Bunkley

The University of Auckland 

Treating Ovarian Cancer with our own Cells

Aarushi Caro

KU Leuven 

What’s It Like Down There? Exploring Buried Rocks for Clean Energy

Rioko Moscardini

University College Dublin 

Design of an Injectable Hydrogel as a Biomaterial for Phytochemical Delivery in Cervical Cancer Treatment

Gabriela Rivera Hernández

Tecnológico de Monterrey 

RNA Drugs: Our New Superhero Against HTLV-1

Tiana Wang

UNSW Sydney 

Ice Mélange: the Cork in the Glacial Bottle

Lokesh Jain

The University of Edinburgh 

Psychotherapy as a Journey in the Brain

Nick Kabrel

University of Zurich 

The Road to Recovery - Psychedelic-like Drugs for Improving Mental Health

Yara Khatib

UC Davis 

Exploring the Integration of Generative AI in Advertising Agencies: a Co-creative Process Model for Human-AI Collaboration

Weila Cui

University of Nottingham 

Bridging the Literacy Gap with Morphology

Alexandra Boese

University of Glasgow 

Microscopic Marvels: Illuminating Blood Disorders with Nanotechnology

Francisca Durán

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 

Criminodynamics: Modelling Crime in Communities

Olebogeng Molefe

University of Johannesburg 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Future of Work - An Example from Medical Imaging

Yuxuan Wu

University of Birmingham 

The Ius Constituendum of Using Blockchain to Achieve the Objects of Land Registration

Prita Suyudi

Universitas Gadjah Mada 

I Gut a Feeling I’m Full: How Bacteria Signal the Brain

Lie Wen

National University of Singapore 

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