Science Slam Club Basel

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Science Slam 2026

30 October 2026 – Kulturhuus Häbse

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The Science Slam Club Basel invites you to an evening full of science and entertainment at Science Slam 2026!

About the event:

Motivated researchers from various disciplines compete against each other to briefly and understandably explain a scientific topic in eight minutes. Whatever is fun is allowed! From presentations to props to songs and live experiments, there are no limits to creativity. The viewers vote the best slams, which entertained and fascinated them the most. The audience can also look forward to an exciting supporting program.

The evening will be in English, the slams will be in English and German. 🇬🇧🇩🇪

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Host: Amber Eve

Programme:

20:00 · PART I

WELCOME: AMBER EVE

GUEST SPEAKER: CLAUDIO MIOZZARI
(Grossrat SP Basel-Stadt)

GUEST SLAM
JONAS BIEDERMANN (Winner 2025)
Wie lange ist die Küste Grossbritanniens?

LAETITIA LEHMANN
Nappies for concrete: the pow(d)er they share

CHIMUKA MULEYA
What happens after “C”?

ARTHUR KRAUSE
2 hours feels like 2 weeks of holidays

MUSIC: TWO MAGPIES

~21:15 · BREAK

~21:30 · PART II

MUSIC: TWO MAGPIES

VICTÒRIA BRUGADA-RAMENTOL
The brain, the game, and the data

ANDOR VÁRI-KAKAS
How can you predict surprises?

PASCAL MÄSER
Lob der Amoebe

CYRA SCHMANDT
Green or red flag? A microbe’s dating profile

AUDIENCE VOTE

SHORT FILMS

~22:45 · AWARD CEREMONY

What is a Science Slam?

A Science Slam is a competition of the best science communicators in which motivated young researchers give a concise and comprehensible ~8 min presentation of a research topic. Anything goes! The slammers can use presentations, stage props or ask the audience to do a short experiment. To win the audience’s vote, the slam must be understood by a layman, fascinating, and of course entertaining.

For Who

Whether you’re in math, physics, engineering, chemistry, biology, history, psychology, social studies, arts or any field we missed here, you are welcome to present your work.

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Partners

Prizes for slammers kindly provided by:

June 7, 2026
FameLab Basel semi-final 2026
FameLab 2026 brings young researchers to the stage to share their science in just three minutes. The Basel semi-final took place on 3 June at 6:30 pm at Verso.

FameLab is an international science communication competition that gives young scientists a stage to inspire audiences around the world. Their challenge: explain a scientific topic in just three minutes – convincingly, creatively and without slides.

Thanks to all participants, the jury members, Kelly and Aurelie for making this an amazing evening!

And congrats to Mohammed, Anna, and Sofia for reaching the Swiss final.

These were the participants:
1. Victoria Brugada Ramentol “The Algorithm Knows Your Brain”
2. Claudia Nguyen “Uncertain: Superbugs and Where to Find Them: Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance Over Time and Space”
3. Meltem Gönel “When the vessels go on strike: Why Successfully Treating a Stroke Is Sometimes Not Enough to Save the Brain”
4. Michael Lukas Keller “A Toast to Potential: What a skin cell can tell us about dementia”
5. Sofia Garipova “Rolling stones that save our lives”
6. Anna Uzonyi “Scars are cool, but dolphins are cooler”
7. Leonie Seefeldt “Slaying Sleeping Beauty”
8. Mohamed El Fakiri “The Radioactive Pop”
9. Marta López Gilberte “How far we’ll go: The unknown waters of fitness and assisted reproduction”
10. Cristina Cipriano “Who decides which nature survives?”
Important Dates
- Semi-Final Bern, 30 April 2026
- Semi-Final Zurich, 6 May 2026
- Semi-Final Lausanne, 20 May 2026
- Semi-Final Basel, 3 June 2026
- Virtual Master Class on 13 & 14 June 2026 (mandatory for all national finalists)
- National Final on 6 September 2026 in Bern
- International Final – December 2026
January 26, 2026
Science Slam Basel 2025
Join the Science Slam Club Basel for an evening where science meets entertainment!

Friday, 3 October 2025, 8.00 pm – 11.00 pm

Kulturhuus Häbse, Klingentalstrasse 79, 4005 Basel

👉 Tickets
- 10 francs: reduced price
- 15 francs: full price
- 25 francs: Supporter ticket – You contribute a little extra and help make the event possible. ❤️
Please note: You can select your preferred ticket category in the final step of the booking process.

After Party: The official Basel Science Slam Afterparty Location will be at Schall & Rauch from 11.30 pm

About the event:

Motivated researchers from various disciplines compete against each other to briefly and understandably explain a scientific topic in eight minutes. Whatever is fun is allowed! From presentations to props to songs and live experiments, there are no limits to creativity. The viewers vote the best slams, which entertained and fascinated them the most. The audience can also look forward to an exciting supporting program.

The evening will be in English, the slams will be in German and English. 🇬🇧🇩🇪

Host: Amber Eve

Our guest speaker is Christine Blume

The musical acts are Piera Nicola and Daria Arkova

Our guest slammer is the Winner of the 2023 Basel Science Slam Michael Morari

And these our contestants for this years edition of the science Slam:

Arthur Krause – Get High On Your Own Supply

Samira Künzler – Origami Gone Wrong: Epigenetics in cancer

Jonas Biedermann – What’s In A Voice?

Alex Serra – Turning Looters into Tutors: Lessons we can learn from parasites

Christian Lotz – TAZAPF: For a better gut feeling

Kunal Soni – Make Electrictiy Great Again!

Alex Lammers – Die Spinnen, Die Wissenschaftler*innen
August 24, 2025