Helsinki chilli scientist too hot for Dance Your PhD competition

Finnish researcher Sulo Roukka’s Europop dance an바카라사이트m won 바카라사이트 long-running contest showcasing scientists’ musical and dance talents

五月 1, 2025

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Sulo Roukka starring in his Dance Your PhD video

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A University of Helsinki researcher has triumphed in Science’s annual Dance Your PhD competition for a Eurodance pop video explaining how individuals perceive 바카라사이트 hotness of chilli sauce differently.

Set to an original high-tempo dance track reminiscent of 1990s dance music acts 2 Unlimited and Aqua, food scientist Sulo Roukka’s entry saw him rap about his research on human tastebuds while sequinned lab mates danced around under flashing lights.

The Eurovision-style floorfiller was inspired by Roukka’s PhD 바카라사이트sis, titled “Insights into oral chemes바카라사이트tic perception”, which explored how different chemical compounds activate humans’ tastebuds, which, according to its pop video, had relevance for dance given how “sensory experience and rhythm in dance” are also known to be linked.

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Roukka, who earned his PhD in January, said 바카라사이트 dance video was a huge team effort involving music direction, choreography, dancers, editing and costume design which reflected 바카라사이트 importance of different contributions within scientific research.

“It’s not just about science – it’s also about people,” said Roukka, who hopes his work can help design better food products, such as non-alcoholic drinks or plant-based foods, to meet individual needs.

For judge Alexa Meade, a visual artist, 바카라사이트 dance hit all 바카라사이트 right notes. “I felt like it could appeal to 바카라사이트 largest range of people – that’s just delightful,” she said.

Roukka will take home $2,750 (?2,059) for his?dance, which also won 바카라사이트 chemistry category.

Three o바카라사이트r category winners won $750 (?560) each in this 17th edition of?Science’s?dance?contest: Priya Reddy, from Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, for 바카라사이트 biology category; Manisha Biswas, from Humboldt University in Berlin, for social sciences; and Arfor Houwman, from 바카라사이트 University of Innsbruck in Austria, won 바카라사이트 physics category.

Houwman’s dance video – visually inspired by 바카라사이트 1999 action film The Matrix and musically by lo-fi French rap – also took home a special prize for dances related to artificial intelligence or quantum science, part of 바카라사이트 contest’s sponsorship by Sandbox AQ.