 Hi, my name is Fiamma Martins. I'm a dual degree PhD student. I'm affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from CMU's College of Engineering and I also work with the counterpart department from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. I'm from Porto, Portugal. When preparing for the three-minute dis-excompetition, the rehearsal part was one that I enjoyed working on the most. A funny story about this is that I rehearsed from home and since my house is at least 100 years old, the floor can be quite noisy sometimes, which meant that I had to practice with some background noise. But in retrospect, I think that it helps in dealing with distractions. Ultimately though, I think that my neighbor wasn't so excited about me entering the competition because he had to deal with quite a bit of noise there. In my research, I look into the factors that influence energy consumption in mobile network infrastructure. And one of the things that I really enjoy about my research topic is that it requires knowledge on a whole array of domains, from basic computer networks and protocols to wireless communication systems, virtualization technologies and service-based architectures, just to name a few. That definitely makes research challenging because we have to look at design considerations across all those domains as factors that can potentially impact energy consumption of mobile network infrastructure. And yet, I think it is quite rewarding when you start from a question that is centered around a highly complex system and you finally manage to understand how all those pieces come together. When I think about doing research at CMU, the first word that comes to mind is collaboration. I think it is very straightforward to find people with common research interests, with whom you can exchange ideas, share knowledge, start common research projects. And I think that it is what ultimately drives science and technology.