For three months, I worked with a great team at Zimmer&Peacock in Horten, Norway; a company which focuses on electrochemical device design, fabrication, and implementation across many relevant industries. My project centered around materials engineering and integration for glucose sensing flexible electrodes, as well as high throughput screen-printing optimization. Having the opportunity to do an industry-focused internship during my Ph.D. gave me valuable insight into the priorities of the academic versus international industrial markets, and better understanding of the importance of quality control and scale-up factors when designing experiments at the lab-scale.  The chance to work internationally helped to grow my outlook towards engineering, and how our skills can be useful to a vast number of industries. Working out of Norway was a wonderful experience, and I’m happy to have been able to travel to new places (within Norway, Italy, Sweden, Demark and France) and make incredible memories with new friends throughout my time there.

I encourage those not only who are interested in industry but those looking for international experience to pursue an internship, whether it be for the LRG or with the LRG!