From India to Australia, Germany and the UK, Manasi Jadhawar has counted many places as home.
But her love of Scotland saw her come to Aberdeen to study, and she now plans to stay in the city for work after graduating with an MEng in Chemical Engineering.
Manasi, who is 23 and from India, has received a job offer from Shell after successfully completing an internship with the company, working in the wells engineering team where she helped kickstart the company's aim to develop a global standardised method of plugging and abandoning old oil wells.
She will now be working in Aberdeen as an upstream commercial advisor in the energy transition team, which is responsible for managing all new energy transition projects as part of Shell’s move to cleaner energy sources.
Reflecting on her five years at the University’s School of Engineering, she said: “The experience has been really enjoyable, particularly when I was made a class rep in second year where I was able to represent my fellow students, and an Erasmus+ programme in third year where I travelled to Valencia to learn about the various processes and disciplines within chemical engineering.
“I also worked as a student demonstrator for the chemical reaction engineering course where I developed my skills and confidence in public speaking, which helped prepare me for my assessed summer internship at Shell.
“Covid brought t some challenging times with the shift to online learning, and it was quite a unique experience to have my assessed summer internship online. Fortunately, I overcame these difficulties to graduate, and even though it hasn’t fully sunk in yet I'm really excited and looking forward to starting a new chapter of my life.”
And will graduation signal the end of Manasi’s globetrotting adventures? Perhaps not quite yet, as she explains…
“I do like travelling to new places and spending time with friends and family, and before Covid I went sightseeing around the UK quite a bit with friends. I'm slowly getting back into travelling again, and my plan is to stay in the UK since I'm very happy here, but who knows what the future may hold!”