TRACES PhD students have recently challenged themselves with an exercise inspired by the well-known Three-Minute Thesis format. Are you familiar with it? The idea is simple but demanding: you have just three minutes to explain your research to a non-specialist audience: clearly, concisely, and engagingly.⏰💬

The doctoral researchers in TRACES took on this challenge and presented their research topics in short, three-minute videos, distilling complex scientific ideas into accessible and creative stories.💡

Would you like to discover more about supercooled water, uncertainty quantification, ice protection and detection systems, ice roughness, rivulets, ice crystals, surface grooves, and other in-flight icing topics?

Then take a look at these fascinating—and often fun—videos, and explore the cutting-edge research carried out by our doctoral researchers.

• Did you know that turbulence might not be the only one responsible for shaking up and down the aircraft you’re in? By Carlos Neves Guillen
• Ice can change everything in flight! By Henidya Putri Heramarwan
• Have you ever heard of electro-thermal ice protection systems? By Akshaya Kannan
• Impact of rotation on UAM icing. By Philipp Buchen
• Did you know ice build-up on aircraft wings can dramatically change airflow?  By Michele Picciolo
• Would you have guessed that we use evaporation to deal with in-flight icing?  By Alessandro Franceschini
• What are rivulets? By Hani Mina
• Have you ever wondered how planes stay ice-free and safe in freezing conditions? By Bélen Bonet Jara
• Have you ever heard of uncertainty quantification? By Omar Kahol
• What role do capillary forces play in aircraft icing? By Shivam Kumar Pandey
• Ever wondered how water droplets in clouds freeze? By Francesca Mondonico
• In-flight icing: why ice shape matters? By Tenzin Tadin
• Ever wondered what happens when tiny droplets from clouds hit an airplane? By Reda Kamal
• Did you know that ice roughness can affect a wing’s aerodynamic performance? By Riccardo Gaudioso
• Why is ice crystal icing a problem for aircraft engines? By Pavlos Stratakos