Searching for the real puppet master

A crowd of more than 100 people came to the Rosensäle for the first live finale of the "Three Minute Thesis" competition after the Corona pandemic. In this competition, doctoral candidates present their thesis in just three minutes on a single slide.

In the end, doctoral researcher Juhi Parmar from the Institute of General Psychology II won the jury prize with her presentation "Will the real Puppet Master please stand up? Understanding priming processes". The jury prize is endowed with 100 euros. Juhi Parmar also won this year's audience award. The second place in the jury voting went to Mrudula Arunkumar with her presentation "The power struggle during learning".

3MT® is an internationally renowned competition that is conducted at numerous universities throughout the world. It was invented in 2008 by the University of Queensland, Australia, and the Coimbra Group has established this competition in Europe. As a member of this renowned university network, the University of Jena takes part in this competition. The winner from Jena will take part in the Europe-wide preliminary competition with her presentation. The three best participants can present their paper at this year's Three-Minute-Thesis Final in Cologne and win up to 3000 euros.

The videos and photo impressions can be found here.