{"id":871,"date":"2026-06-17T13:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/?p=871"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:27:20","slug":"a-day-to-celebrate-early-career-science-the-2026-phd-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/2026\/06\/17\/a-day-to-celebrate-early-career-science-the-2026-phd-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"A day to celebrate early-career science: The 2026 PhD Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-872 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/files\/2026\/06\/PhD-Showcase-01.06.2026-00024-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>On Monday 1 June, PhD students gathered on the 12th floor of the Michael Uren Building at the White City campus for this year&#8217;s PhD Showcase \u2013 a day built around sciences, posters, presentations and friendly competition.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Formerly known as Rising Scientist Day, the Showcase moved to its new home on the 12th floor in direct response to student feedback, and the change paid off: the venue gave the day a bright, open setting for students to share their work and connect with one another. Lunch, sponsored by Bio-Rad, kept everyone fuelled through a packed programme.<\/p>\n<p>The morning belonged to the poster competition, where students presented research spanning Brain Sciences, Immunology, Infectious Disease and beyond. In the afternoon, attention turned to the three-minute thesis competition \u2013 a test of how clearly and compellingly a researcher can distil years of work into just 180 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>A general knowledge quiz dropped in mid-afternoon to give everyone a breather and an excuse to mingle, before prizes were awarded for the best posters and the strongest three-minute thesis presentations. The day closed with a networking reception.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-873 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/files\/2026\/06\/PhD-Showcase-01.06.2026-00001-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hearing from alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights was the alumni slot, where former PhD students returned to talk candidly about their own PhD journeys and the careers that followed. We were delighted to welcome\u00a0<strong>Nicola Davis (Brain Sciences)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Nan Fletcher-Lloyd (Brain Sciences)<\/strong>, alongside Carmen Ramirez Moncayo (MDR\/Clinical Sciences), who shared honest reflections on life during and after the PhD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And the winners are\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First poster session<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Niamh Wilkinson \u2013 MDR<\/li>\n<li>Riona Pye \u2013 Infectious Disease<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Bracanovic \u2013 MDR<\/li>\n<li>Qizhen Jia \u2013 Immunology and Inflammation<\/li>\n<li>Chloe Angwin \u2013 MDR<\/li>\n<li>Hanh Duyen Tran \u2013 MDR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Second poster session<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geoffrey Leung \u2013 Immunology and Inflammation<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Kleine \u2013 Brain Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Josephine Luetke Boerding \u2013 Immunology and Inflammation<\/li>\n<li>Ishani Shah \u2013 Infectious Disease<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Thomas \u2013 MDR<\/li>\n<li>Asha Marshall \u2013 Infectious Disease<\/li>\n<li>Linda Wong \u2013 MDR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-874 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/files\/2026\/06\/PhD-Showcase-01.06.2026-00007-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 1 June, PhD students gathered on the 12th floor of the Michael Uren Building at the White City campus for this year&#8217;s PhD Showcase \u2013 a day built around sciences, posters, presentations and friendly competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1947,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275632,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-updates","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1947"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/dobs-staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}