CIES 2025 3 Minute Thesis Competition Results
Published on the 29 May 2025
We are pleased to announce the results of our CIES 2025 3 Minute Thesis Competition. The 3MT format requires higher degree researchers to speak to the core of their years’ long and incredibly detailed research to communicate their work – its reasons, findings and uses – to the general public, yes in just three minutes.
Congratulations to all twenty-two of our higher degree research participants for their outstanding presentations and inspiring research.
🏆 Winners of the CIES 2025 3MT Competition:
1st Place: Tareq Khondoker – Topic title: ‘Low-carbon 3D printed concrete - for a sustainable tomorrow.’ Supervisor: Dr Ali Kashani
2nd Place: MD. Ibrahim Mostazid – ‘Cracking the code of green concrete cancer.’ Supervisors: A/Prof Ailar Hajimohammadi & Em Prof Stephen Foster
3rd Place: Gunja Shah – ‘Greener concrete from lithium waste: a new path to low-carbon construction.’ Supervisor: Dr Ali Kashani
4th Place: Mikael Gilbert –‘More than just bricks: the economics of Net Zero energy homes.’ Supervisors: Dr Khalegh Barati & A/Prof Johnson Shen
They will advance to represent CIES in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering Round on Friday, 6 June 2025. We wish them the very best!
A warm thank you to all participants and judges for your hard work and enthusiasm. Our judges were Dr Khalegh Barati, A/Prof Ailar Hajimohammadi, Dr Mehri Makki Alamdari and Dr Adnan Sufian. Your contributions made this event a great success.
A special thank you to Associate Professor Johnson Shen for hosting the event.
N.B. Last year CIES PhD researcher Milad Mousavi was awarded first place for the 2024 Faculty of Engineering’s 3 Minute Thesis competition and came second in UNSW overall! Fingers crossed for 2025!