MSc Chemistry
'The part I enjoyed most about the Master's was that I was given the opportunity to go abroad for an internship at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.'
'The fundamental approach of the Chemistry programme is what I find so attractive. You start from nothing, and delve deeply into the material.'
'What I really enjoy about my work, is that my models have a highly predictive value. In the past people were skeptical but time and again experimental values turn out to be the previously predicted simulation value for a perfect structure.'
'My simulations of protein unfolding need computing power - lots of computing power.'
'Where does a substance end up if I throw it in the canal? How much of it will end up in the air, how much will end up in the fish? And just how toxic will it prove to be for those fish? In my research concerning (emerging) water contaminants, I have mainly focused on the study of water-soluble polar residues in the ecosystem.'