Tecnun Ceit their scientific advances at the 5th edition of Tecnun 2026

Last Friday, January 16, the fifth edition of Tecnun Research Conference (Tecnun 2026) was held, where nearly 65 doctoral students from the School presented their research in posters and parallel talks throughout the morning. 

The congress place in the Central Building the Miramón Technology Park and was attended by more than 130 people, including staff researchers from both Tecnun and Ceit. Among the doctoral students who presented, almost 30% are international, coming from various countries such as Mexico, Italy, Tunisia, Mozambique, Pakistan, and Brazil, among many others. 

The workshop with a discussion paper Kiko Llaneras, PhD in Industrial Engineering and data journalist at El País. During the talk, entitled "How to communicate complexity," the journalist stated that "the tools are the same in journalism and science, what varies is the timing."

"Before, what was scarce was content, information, and entertainment. Today, what is scarce is attention," said Llaneras.

After the plenary session, doctoral students with poster their research in one minute in the main auditorium of the building (Elevator Pitch), followed by a session in which a jury evaluated each poster and presentation individually. 

Once finished, parallel talks (Podium Sessions) began in different rooms throughout the building. In these sessions, doctoral students presented their research in 10-minute talks before a different jury in each conference room. 

The jury was composed of professors, researchers, and final-year doctoral students from both Tecnun Ceit. 

For poster presentations, the jury evaluated the elevator pitch, motivation, and clear presentation of objectives, structure, and coherence, as well as more formal aspects such as the quality of figures, fonts, etc., and finally, responses to questions from the jury.

In the case of the podium sessions, the same guidelines were followed, except that an assessment of each doctoral student's oral skills was added. 

Finally, at the closing ceremony, the award best poster to PhD student Adriana Peña Malavé, graduate Manufacturing in Thermoforming: Unlocking New Possibilities for Mold Production," and the award best Podium Session went to Valentine Takudzwa Machaka, titled "Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity: An Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) Technology Approach."

The deputy director of Research at Tecnun, Marta Ormazábal, stated that "theTecnun 2026 congress is an excellent opportunity to learn firsthand about the research being carried out at Tecnun CEIT, presented by their doctoral students."

The deputy director explained that doctoral students, professors, and researchers alike "left their usual workspaces to focus exclusively on sharing and learning from this research." 

"This change of environment allows us to put aside our daily tasks, even if only for a few hours, and open ourselves up to learning what other colleagues are doing," he said.