Winner of the postdoctoral symposium

[Davide Ciccarese]

Dear Postdocs and participants to the Postdoctoral Pitch Night,


On 24 August, we hosted the Postdoctoral Pitch Night (a.k.a. Postdoctoral
Symposium) at the iHQ.

We were delighted to listen to all the fantastic talks and the incredible
science that each of you is doing.


Please find here the final results of the competition:


*Jury Favourite*


1st. Florian Metzler, Modifying nuclear reactions in solid-state
environments via quantum engineering (500 $);

2nd. Caroline Apra, Shining hope to patients with brain cancer;

3rd. Jan-Georg Rosenboom, ImmuGel;


*Most likely to succeed as a business (best problem / best customer) *


1st. Jan-Georg Rosenboom, ImmuGel (500 $);

2nd. Onur Güvenç, deScrapped & Arturo Deza, Artifici;

3rd. Caroline Apra, Shining hope to patients with brain cancer;


*Crowd favorite*


1st. Arturo Deza, Artificio (300 $);

2nd. Murat Onen, Future of AI: Analog Processor & Johannes Kalliauer,
open-source product database;

3rd. Florian Metzler, Modifying nuclear reactions in solid-state
environments via quantum engineering.


Please get in touch with our Treasurer: pda-treasurer at mit.edu for info on
how to get your money prize.


Please find here some pictures of the event. LINK
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1W--3fF_0LzaipVYpKpIwb3qgtNifgT-W?usp=sharing>


The startuppers that gave the inspirational talk are:


Bruce Crawford, Nona Technologies https://www.nona-technologies.com/

Shivang Dave, PlenOptika https://plenoptika.com/

Floris Engelhardt, Kano Therapeutics;
https://www.activate.org/kano-therapeutics


Stay in touch with the PDA and innovation & entrepreneurship resources SLACK
LINK
<https://join.slack.com/share/enQtMzk5MTgzMDU0NjYxMS03ZGUxMmUxZTIyNGQ0ZGNhMGZmNmIyMTAwNDNkMzgxYTBhNWJlOTBiMDQ5NGViMTc4MTI0M2Y2ZGQ0ZWExNGNj>


Find out all the funding resources here:
https://pda.mit.edu/resources/funding-resources/



Thanks a lot to all of you for making this event possible,


-- 
Davide Ciccarese, PhD
Fundraising committee chair,
Postdoctoral Associate
Massachusetts Instute of Technology (MIT)
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
mob.+1 (617) 9551734
-- 
Davide Ciccarese, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Massachusetts Instute of Technology (MIT)
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
mob.+1 (617) 9551734
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