Podcast For Progress

In 2017, Hugo Bettencourt was finalist of the Portuguese section of the science communication competition ‘FameLab’, and appeared at the Noite Europeia dos Investigadores 2017. Here, he talks about this experience. FameLab is an international science communication competition initiated by the British Council. Hugo explains the application process, and what is expected from the presentations. He also shares some of what he learned in the special science communication workshop for finalists. At the end he had a great experience and made some friends. And it even got him some additional gigs as a science communicator. background Born and raised in Lisbon, Hugo Bettencourt studies biomedical engineering. Currently he is working on his MSc thesis in neuroscience at the Champalimaud Foundation. It is very important to him to participate in the complete scientific process. Too often, he says, engineers in science only get to do data analysis. He is not yet clear about his career goals. But he already knows sci