{"id":550,"date":"2019-11-18T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=550"},"modified":"2019-11-26T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T13:58:50","slug":"hans-chan-undergraduate-bsc-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2019\/11\/18\/hans-chan-undergraduate-bsc-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Chan, Undergraduate, BSc Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-551\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/files\/2019\/11\/Hans_Chan_landscape-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>\u201cImperial is more than just an academic institution \u2013 there is a culture of facilitating innovation and helping students to implement and execute great ideas, which you might not find in a pure research environment.\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Since starting my Chemistry degree at Imperial, I have been involved in a variety of things \u2013 from being a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperialcollegeunion.org\/activities\/a-to-z\/robotics\">Robotics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperialcollegeunion.org\/activities\/a-to-z\/dronesoc\">Drone<\/a> society, to getting involved in tech entrepreneurship competitions hosted by the College.<\/p>\n<p>The College has incredible resources, which enable both students and staff to carry out ground-breaking work in both natural sciences and engineering. At Imperial, there is a celebratory feel in the air whenever something new is created, and this is an environment I enjoy being part of. Imperial is more than just an academic institution \u2013 there is a culture of facilitating innovation and helping students to implement and execute great ideas, which you might not find in a pure research environment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, I do think most important of all is the variety of exceptional people at Imperial.<\/p>\n<p>Winning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/natural-sciences\/education-and-teaching\/fons-mad\/\">FoNS MAD<\/a> competition with my colleagues and then creating a startup company from that is definitely the highlight of my time at Imperial, and the coolest thing I have been involved in over the last couple of years. It was an incredible journey, starting from just a vision, then communicating it to get funding, using said funding to develop the substance of the idea, and finally taking that to a viable business.<\/p>\n<p>Our startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matoha.com\/\">Matoha Ultrascience<\/a>, is trying to solve the important problem of plastic waste processing. Personally, I am also interested in solving important problems in the field of chemistry using novel computational technology, which will be the focus of my research in my upcoming master\u2019s final year research. I am actively seeking full PhD funding for international students, so I can carry on tackling important problems and executing novel solutions at Imperial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImperial is more than just an academic institution \u2013 there is a culture of facilitating innovation and helping students to implement and execute great ideas, which you might not find in a pure research environment.\u201d Since starting my Chemistry degree at Imperial, I have been involved in a variety of things \u2013 from being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hans Chan, Undergraduate, BSc Chemistry - 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