Harshini Tekur, PhD student in Physics at IISER Pune, has been selected for a Merit Prize at the Asian Scientist Writing Prize 2017 competition. Open to all across Asia, this science writing competition invites non-fiction articles of ~1500 words covering any scientific discipline. The 2017 competition received 227 entries of which a total of 26 winners were announced.

 

The Merit Prize category in which Ms. Tekur has been selected comes with a $500 World Scientific Publishing book voucher. Tekur's article titled "That Sync-ing Feeling" was on the concept of synchronization, its occurrence in the natural world and the interest the phenomenon has generated amidst the scientific community cutting across disciplines. 

 

More information on this competition is here.

 

Congratulations to Harshini Tekur on this achievement and looking forward to more writings from her.