THAI RESEARCHER WINS 1ST EURAXESS SCIENCE SLAM ASEAN 2013 IN SINGAPORE

Dr. Phanramphoei Frantz, a virologist working at BIOTEC in Thailand, has won the EURAXESS Science Slam ASEAN 2013. Dr Frantz won over the participants of 160 scientists and researchers at the EURAXESS Science Slam ASEAN finals, which were held on 25 September 2013 in Singapore. The Thai researcher captured the audience and the five strong juries with a rap song about her work at the Virology and Cell Technology Lab at BIOTEC where she develops a vaccine to combat Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus. 

Dr Frantz was among the 5 finalists, while more than 40 young researchers in ASEAN had submitted proposals in the hope to secure a place in the finals. Dr Frantz won a trip to Brussels in Belgium where she will attend the EURAXESS Conference "Raising Researchers' Voices - opinions on jobs, careers and rights" in late November 2013. There, she will be joined by champions of the science slams that took place concurrently in the EURAXESS Links hubs Brazil, China, India, Japan and North America.