European Space Agency Spin Your Thesis 2021!

The Spin Your Thesis 2021! programme is one of the programmes of ESA and allows students to perform their own gravity-related research. This is particularly catered towards PhD and Masters students in order for them to do their respective theses utilising simulated hypergravity.
Our programme started with a proposal submitted in September 2019; this included preliminary experiment design, theoretical research and project planning. Having received the confirmation of acceptance in December, the programme included a 1.5-week training in January. From thereonwards mentors have been further supervising the project, through means of design reviews and experiment reports. Although the experiment will be built and tested at our own facilities in Durham, the actual experiment campaign week, which is set for September, will take place at the ESA ESTEC Life, Physical Sciences and Life Support Laboratory. The experiment execution will be followed by a period of data analysis and publication; the latter of which ranges from journal publications to conferences and presentations. See the links below for more information