The IOM3 Young Persons’ Lecture Competition invites students and professionals up to the age of 28 to deliver a short lecture on a materials, minerals, mining, packaging, clay technology and wood science related subject.

Six finalists will give a 15 minute presentation on a technical topic of their choice and answer questions from a panel of three judges.

The winner will represent the UK at the Young Persons’ World Lecture Competition final in Australia in October.

Finalists include:

South West & South Wales
Jemma Rowlandson – Saving the world with Leerdammer cheese: Engineering activated carbons for clean water

North West & North Wales
Beatriz Mingo – Smart coatings: Challenges and opportunities

South East
Ilija Rasovic – Making the world’s most expensive material

Midlands
Amanda Field – Additive manufacturing for nuclear fusion

North East
Will Foster – Cocktail science: Molecular organisation of water and alcohol mixtures at solid interfaces

Scotland
Marli De Jongh – Shocked suevites from the Ries crater: Insights into the dynamics of hypervelocity impacts

To attend, please contact Efi Fragkou.