Winner of the UQ Visualise Your Thesis competition for 2024

9 September 2024

Congratulations to Rian Mantasa Salve Prastica who won the UQ Visualise Your Thesis (VYT) competition for 2024, sponsored by the UQ Association of Postgraduate Students (APS), Inc.

The awards were announced in the Central Library on Wednesday 28 August 2024.

The 2024 winner

Rian Mantasa is a PhD student in the School of Civil Engineering. 

Rian's VYT entry was selected by the judges as the 2024 winner from 12 competition entries. He was also voted Viewers' Choice winner by the audience!

Professor Pierre Benckendorff (Deputy Dean, UQ Graduate School); Professor Kris Ryan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic); Rian Mantasa and Jeff Cruz, Director, Library Student Experience, UQ Library.
L-R: Professor Pierre Benckendorff (Deputy Dean, UQ Graduate School); Professor Kris Ryan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic); Rian Mantasa and Jeff Cruz, Director, Library Student Experience, UQ Library. Image: supplied. 

Rian won the full $1500 in prize money provided by the APS as well as a small prize from Science Direct and Figshare (international competition sponsors).

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