Interactive Tutorial:
Structuring your research story
Most research yields papers, presentations, and posters as sole tangible deliverable, yet most researchers have never learned to structure a research story effectively for their audiences. As a result, they provide a self-centered, chronological, overly detailed account of what they did, with little or no motivation for their work (who cares?) and little or no interpretation of their findings (so what?). This interactive tutorial proposes a systematic, readily applicable approach to structuring research stories in papers, presentations, and posters, so as to get messages across effectively to a variety of audiences. It illustrates this approach with papers on electronics for particle physics.
In this tutorial, you will learn
- the overall objective of research communication,
- the questions that audiences typically want answered,
- a standard structure you can use to write abstracts / papers,
- how to adapt this structure for research presentations or posters,
- how (or whether) AI can help improve your research communication.
Friday, 10 October, 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Given by Dr. Jean-luc Doumont
Dr. Jean-luc Doumont is an engineer (Louvain) and has a PhD in applied physics (Stanford). He is known for his no-nonsense approach, his highly applicable, often life-changing recommendations on effective communication. As part of his early research efforts, he participated in detector development projects at CERN in 1985 and 1987.
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Registration required, cost 80 Euro
