Highcliffe student cleaning up the world!

I’d been given some incredible opportunities and made some amazing friends, many of whom I’m still in close contact with over four years down the line.  However, it was time to move on and with four As at A-level under my belt I was ready to start my chemistry degree at The University of Bath.

I knew an MChem degree wasn’t going to be easy, but why should that stop me? It was a great challenge to rise to and gave me the chance to do an industry placement for a year, developing cutting edge materials for electronics.  As a break from the academic work, I got involved with many other activities such as becoming a Freshers’ Week Captain and the Chairman of the Life Saving Club.

At the end of my four years as an undergraduate, I received my first class honours degree and decided that I loved Bath and chemistry so much that I would spend another four years here and embark on a PhD.  I’m now part of the Doctoral Training Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies and am synthesizing new materials for hydrogen storage, which will be vital for future clean energy solutions.  It’s really motivating working on something that you can see will make a real difference.

I am so thankful to all those at Highcliffe for all the support I received, giving me the very best chance to pursue a career as a scientist and, believe it or not, every time I enter the lab I still proudly don the lab coat (now slightly dirty and a little tighter round the middle) that I have been wearing since year twelve.

Dan Davies

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