By LifETIME CDT Student: Eleanor Barton (Aston University) Who knew 3 months could fly by so fast? From April to early July 2025, I had the opportunity to go on placement in the research and development (R&D) team at Terumo Aortic in Glasgow. My PhD project at Aston University focuses on developing methods to experimentally validate …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Emma Jackson (She/Her) (University of Glasgow) In September 2024 I travelled to Valencia, Spain for my PhD placement at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. My placement involved working with Dr. Gloria Gallego-Ferrer at the Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (CBIT). The focus of my project was investigating how dynamic magnetic fields …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Dora Rogkoti (She/Her) (University of Glasgow) Hello! 😊 I’m Dora, currently a final-year PhD student at the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment in Glasgow. From September until December 2024, I had the opportunity to visit Professor Hans Van Oosterwyck’s lab (MAtrix Group) at KU Leuven in Belgium. My project focuses on the …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Mohamed Patel (He/Him) (University of Birmingham) GSBS Medical Trust (India) The GSBS Medical Trust is a charitable organization operating in Central Mumbai, India for last 5 decades. The Trust is a non-communal body registered under the Charity Commissioner in 1973 which offers diagnostic services and medical treatment to needy patients irrespective …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Hannah Williamson (She/Her) (University of Birmingham) As I scanned out of the building for the last time, I realised the last 4 months I’d spent on placement with Integrated Graphene had flown by in a summer tinted blur. At the start of May, I moved to Scotland to work for the engineering …
By LifETIME CDT Student: Sabah Sardar (She/Her) (University of Glasgow) I had the opportunity of undertaking my PhD placement at ETH Zurich in the Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics. It proved to be transformative and incredibly rewarding experience that allowed me to explore the world of Fluidic Force Microscopy (FluidFM). In this blog post, I’ll take …