Nidhi Kapil hosts Nuffield Placement student at the Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering (CNIE)
27 September 2021
Nidhi Kapil and Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens from the UCL Department of Chemical Engineering and theCentre for Nature-Inspired Engineering(CNIE)participated in and hosted student Miss Minahil Ahmad under the .
Nuffield Research Placements are funded by the and delivered by . They are engaging, hands-on research projects, where students have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of a host organisation.
Minahil worked on the project The Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles for Novel Scientific Applications. She was also awarded for this project.
Minahil says
“My time conducting a Nuffield project with UCL was amazing, and taught me so many skills; all the way from writing emails and time management to structuring a scientific report. Despite the COVID-19 challenge, the virtual experience was still extremely engaging with daily video calls, and my supervisors were lovely! They helped me a great deal (with absolutely anything I needed) and my understanding of my topic of research has grown tenfold. I would highly recommend a Nuffield project with UCL to anyone who is looking for a better understanding of what researchers do and why research is so vital to the future of many industries!”