Students compete for a place to present their research to UK Parliament
30 January 2019
34 students presented their research at UCL Posters in Cloisters, competing for a place in Posters in Parliament, which showcases the best of undergraduate research from UK universities.
UCL undergraduates from a wide range of courses including Psychology, Biochemistry, Urban Planning and Economics, and recent graduates, presented their research posters in an exhibition in the UCL Cloisters on Wednesday 30 January.
Celebrating undergraduate research at UCL
A shortlist of students from across UCL presented their research to the panel and all presented their research to the UCL community at a lunchtime event.
Expertise from around UCL
The judging panel was made up of both students and staff:
• Sam Smidt, UCL Arena Centre Director
• Ruth Siddall, Student mediator
• Kaila Singh Sari, Head of Research, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Students who were selected
Two research posters were selected by the panel to represent UCL at Posters in Parliament, a national undergraduate research competition, on Thursday 7 March.
First place was awarded to Alice Pistono (pictured) who is a fourth year student studying MSci Natural Sciences in the department of Natural Sciences. She presented research on ‘DNA Degradation under shifting temperature conditions’
Second place was awarded to Ana Maria Ionescu, Delphine Tavernier, Roumyana Kotopanova, Maxim Sverjinski, Gonzalo Valdes Davila and Samuel Shannon who are second year students studying Biochemical Engineering. Their research was focused on ‘Bioethanol production from longline seaweed in United Kingdom’
Students influencing change
Ana Maria and her team told us how exciting it was to be involved in the event:
“Taking part in competitions like this is important to us. Sharing our research on with the UCL community and getting as many people involved means that we can potentially influence change.”
Research-based education in action
Dr Sam Smidt said of the event,
”It is great to see research-based education in action from our undergraduates from first year through to their final year. The quality of research on display today is outstanding.”
Full list of shortlisted students
Those in bold were commended.
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Victoria Voelker, BSc Psychology
Disa Witkowska, BA Linguistics
Nick Palatty, MSci Psychology
Navya Sharan, BSc Psychology
UCL Computer Science
Fazaan Hassan, MEng Computer Science
Bharaghavi Damodharan, MEng Computer Science
UCL School of Pharmacy
Joshua Gentry, MPharm Pharmacy
Trevor Lowe, MPharm Pharmacy
Xin Yi Thum, MPharm Pharmacy
Xie Jie Yeo, MPharm Pharmacy
Laylan Siddik, MPharm Pharmacy
Shuofei Zhang, MPharm Pharmacy
Zhi Xin Yan, MPharm Pharmacy
UCL Division of Biosciences
Sofia Esteban Serna, Msci Biochemistry
Akanksha Jain, MSci Cell Biology
Sophie Gray, BSc Human Sciences
Tom Edwards, BSc Human Sciences
Lena Kaisinger, BSc Human Sciences
UCL Chemistry
Tereza Kacerova, BSc Medicinal Chemistry
UCL Natural Sciences
Alice Pistono, MSci Natural Sciences(winner)
UCL Physics and Astronomy
Dominik Kufel, BSc Physics
UCL Medical School
Davina Puri, MB,BS Medicine
Marcellus Augustine, MB,BS Medicine
Victoria Ngai, MB,BS Medicine
Institute for Global Health
Sara Beqiri, BSc (Intercal) Medical Sciences with Global Health
Bartlett School of Planning
Jolene Lim, BSc Planning and Real Estate
Sebastian Borkiewicz, BSc Urban Planning, Design and Management
Anastassia Gusseinova, BSc Urban Planning, Design and Management
Division of Infection and Immunity
Sophie Sanford, BSc Immunology and Infection, Div. Infection and Immunity
UCL Economics
Hannah Buttle, BSc(Econ) Economics
Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Jakub Zalesak, BSc Physics with Medical Physics
Sofia Erixon, BSc Psychology
UCL Biochemical Engineering
Ana Maria Ionescu, Delphine Tavernier, Roumyana Kotopanova, Maxim Sverjinski, Gonzalo Valdes Davila, Samuel Shannon (winner), Biochemicaly Engineering
Institutional priorities
Posters in Parliament is staged by the British Conference of Undergraduate Research and designed to show the growing emphasis on undergraduate research at UK universities. A key objective of our institutional strategy, UCL 2034, is to give all our students at every level the opportunity to carry out research.
Posters in Cloisters 2020
Further information on the next round of UCL Posters in Cloisters will be available from September 2019.