Ever licked a chili pepper and thought, “This needs a dance break”? No? Well, Dr. Sulo Roukka did—and he turned that burning sensation into an award-winning musical number.

The 2025 Dance Your PhD champion has arrived, and he brought both the heat and the chill. In a dazzling explosion of interpretive science, Roukka breaks down his doctoral thesis, “Insights into oral chemesthetic perception: A focus on food-related behavior”, by singing and dancing his way through everything from capsaicin infernos to minty arctic blasts.

Check it out!

[Via Neatorama]