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Summer research internships for undergraduate students

Faculty of Science and Engineering  Centre for Bioengineering  Centre for Brain and Behaviour  Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory  Centre for Complex Systems  Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation  Centre for Intelligent Transport  Centre for Molecular Cell Biology  Centre for Networks, Communications and Systems 

13 June 2026

Oliver Leo Carter and Zishan Xu
Oliver Leo Carter and Zishan Xu

Ten talented undergraduate students from across a wide range of Science and Engineering programmes are embarking on exciting summer research internships under the mentorship of academic supervisors. This fantastic opportunity has been made possible through the QMUL Summer Training Research Initiative to Support Diversity and Equality (STRIDE) and the London Mathematical Society's Undergraduate Research Bursaries (URB) scheme.

Spanning the full breadth of Science and Engineering, these diverse and innovative projects offer students a unique chance to explore research, develop new skills, and gain first-hand experience of academic discovery. We hope the programme will inspire the next generation of researchers and ignite a lasting passion for scientific inquiry.

Below, you can find the full list of projects, students, and supervisors taking part in this year's programme.

  • Zahra Ibrahim Ahmed Yusuf: An inclusive approach to measuring depression in neurodivergent young adults from diverse backgrounds (supervisor Giorgia Michelini)
  • Tahran Tinnin Motlib-Siddiqui: Bioelectronic Sensors for Lanthanides (supervisor Lin Su)
  • Radoslaw BukowiƄski: LoRa-Based Satellite Ground Station Development and Link Analysis using the TinyGS Network (supervisor Fatma Benkhelifa)
  • Mohammed Rizwan Miah: Offshore Aquaculture Renewables (supervisor Eldad Avital)
  • Elsie Chidera Obiako: Developing AI tools for image-based diagnosis (supervisor Shaheer U Saeed)
  • Amina Abulrahim Montalto: Domestic Water Recycling (supervisor Eldad Avital)
  • Nursen Adiba Chowdhury: Synthesis, Fabrication and Characterization of Novel Antiferroelectric Materials (supervisor Giuseppe Viola)
  • Ivet Lobo: Combinatorial search algorithms- AI and Machine Learning vs Integer Optimization (supervisor Thomas Prellberg)
  • Zishan Xu: Higher order hyperbolic problems with singularities (LMS URB, supervisor Claudia Garetto)
  • Oliver Leo Carter: Matroids that maximase a valuative invariant (LMS URB, supervisors Alex Fink and Mark Jerrum)

People: Giorgia MICHELINI Lin SU Fatma BENKHELIFA Shaheer U. SAEED Eldad AVITAL Thomas PRELLBERG Claudia GARETTO Alex FINK Mark JERRUM

Contact: Claudia Garetto
Email: c.garetto@qmul.ac.uk

Updated by: Claudia Garetto