UCLan reports:

Physics graduate from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) gained an internship with the European Space Agency (ESA).

Adelchi Asta graduated from the MPhys Physics course in July and moved to the Netherlands to begin his internship in the Non-metallic Materials Department at the ESA-ESTEC. Based in Noordwijk, he worked on the development of a model for modern polymeric materials.

Adelchi has since finished the internship and will start an MSc in Modern Applications of Mathematics at the University of Bath in September.

Adelchi enjoyed a truly international study experience while at UCLan. He is from a Franco-Italian family and spent his early life in Rome and Paris. He moved to England for his studies and his MPhys project on nano-block copolymers and nano-colloids was supervised by Dr. M. Pinna, an Italian.

During this project Adelchi visited the University of Barcelona for three weeks and worked with…