Dance your PhD profitable dance on your interior Kylie Minogue to provide an explanation for meals science

After Sulo Rokka, “The normal way” to defend PhD, he did not know what to do with himself. So they dressed like chili pepper and made a dance video about it.

Helsinki Food Scientist University is the winner of the annual dance your PhD competition of the magazine of Science this year, in which the academics dig up their lab coats for latex to explain their complex disserted with movement and songs.

“After PhD defense, I felt a little empty. And then this idea happened to my mind, like, let’s do it,” Rauka said As it happens Host Nil Koxle.

“I believe it is an interesting combination of science that meets dance.”

Look This year’s winning dance your PhD entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoa6GJ6_LES

Rauka’s PhD is “called”Insight in oral chemical perception: focus on food related behavior.“In the terms of the common man, he studies how various people react to chemical compounds that make the food feel warm, cold or acidic.

“I am curious about how we experience and experience food through our senses,” he said.

In his video, Rokooka spoke about the songs about “Hot Hot Hot Hot” and “Cool Cool Cool”, as chillies in a laboratory filled with chili chili and mint leaves as dancers in the lab coat.

Later, the dancer, all the students from the theater group Viikki-SPEKSI, remove your labkot to reveal the sparkling disco outfits, while Rauka sports a warm red unitard courtesy of his friend and stylist Temu Murimaki.

“They looked at me like red chili pepper and I felt completely like Kylie Minogue Padam Padam Video, “Rauka said.

Asked if he is a fan of the Australian pop star, Rukka replied: “Yes, of course, who is not, who is not?”

Rukka won the overall award, as well as in the chemistry category, earned the $ 2,750 US ($ 3,804 CDN) award.

Priya Reddy from Frederick Shiller University Jena in Germany, won in biology category His video that uses dramatic, explanatory dance to explain the vaccination of the plant.

Arfor Hovman of Insbrook University in Austria took Physics Award for himself Space-enhanced electronic music video about laser cooling,

And Manisha Biswas of Humboldt University, Berlin won the social science category for her Vocabulary To detect evolutionary and cultural benefits, well, synchronized movement.

Look Dance your PhD category winning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhzedbwqfauhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lprysgu0sochttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhyjtae9if8

John Bohanon, a former science correspondent-detta-detta scientist who started the competition in 2008 and continued to look after it, this year’s contestants made more European slant than previous years.

“This year, American scientists did not seem to be in the mood to dance,” He said in a press release“Lucky to the world, scientists in Europe have doubled their creativity and enthusiasm.”

‘Bring peace on dinner table’

Rokka says that he was thrilled with an opportunity to share his research, which says that the food is implications outside the lab. In his thesis, he found that chemical compounds in food do not affect everyone in the same way.

“People are different, and there are personal differences. And I think such personal differences in sensitivity can explain our food experiences,” he said.

“We need to understand our personal differences to get a better understanding of each other. And I believe that by doing this we can bring peace to the dinner table, and beyond.”