{"id":12086,"date":"2025-01-31T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/life-en\/?post_type=news&p=12086"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T10:27:50","slug":"winner-of-luxembourgs-science-slam-2024","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/life-en\/news\/winner-of-luxembourgs-science-slam-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of Luxembourg’s Science Slam 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Six scientists attracted a full house of more than 150 visitors during Luxembourg\u2019s Science Slam<\/a> 2024. They had 10 minutes to present their research in an understandable but also entertaining way in front of a sold-out Cercle Cit\u00e9 on October 4 covering topics from economics, law, engineering, humanities and biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audience voted for aerospace engineer Citlali Bruce Rosete<\/a> from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT<\/a>) to become Luxembourg\u2019s Science Slam Master 2024. She took home the golden trophy along with the space satellites she brought with her. In this interview she speaks about how she came up with one idea for her Slam in the supermarket. You can also watch a recording of her slam at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was your Slam about?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My slam was about my PhD research topic in space systems engineering, where I am analysing swarms of extremely small spacecraft. In my slam I focused on the miniaturisation of satellites down to gram-scale spacecraft, as well as some proposed mission concepts for these extremely small satellites.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you prepare for it?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with my fellow slammers, we had a coaching session with Manuel Maidorn, one of the organisers of the Science Slam, explaining how to organise and structure our slam and how to find the story and the key message we wanted to tell. After deciding on this key message, I started thinking about my story with analogies in my everyday life that I could compare to satellites. With my colleagues in the lab, we always joke about how our satellite (a PocketQube) is the size of a Rubik\u2019s cube, so I thought: \u201cwhy not actually bring and show a Rubik\u2019s cube in my talk?\u201d Another day, I was walking in the supermarket around the cheese section and thought: \u201cthat slice of cheese seems like a perfect model for a ChipSat!\u201d An important part for me was showing how these small satellites can be useful to society and how they are helping us to better understand our world. I decided to share two or three missions that are currently active or that are being proposed to bring everyone closer to these satellites.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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