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Third-year materials science undergraduate at Mahidol University, working on biodegradable polymer composites for food packaging.
Available for research placements: June–August 2027
I am a third-year student in the School of Materials Science and Innovation at Mahidol University. My coursework and lab work centre on polymer composites — specifically how filler dispersion and interfacial adhesion govern the mechanical and barrier properties of biodegradable films.
I have around 400 hours of hands-on laboratory time across film casting, thermal analysis and electron microscopy, and I am looking for a research placement where I can contribute to characterisation work while learning a technique I cannot access at my home institution.
Where I would like to be useful in a host lab.
Starch- and PLA-based films that keep useful barrier properties without persisting in the environment. I am most interested in the trade-off between compostability and water-vapour resistance, which is where most food-contact applications currently fail.
How surface treatment of a filler changes stress transfer in a composite. I want to work on quantifying interfacial adhesion rather than inferring it from bulk tensile data alone.
Crosslinked polysaccharide networks and how network density governs release kinetics. An area I have read into and would like supervised laboratory experience in.
Spin-coated oxide films and the relationship between deposition parameters and crystallinity. This grew out of an assistantship and is the technique area I would most like to deepen.
Mahidol University · School of Materials Science and Innovation (SCME), Faculty of Science
Aug 2024 – May 2028 · GPA 3.58 / 4.00
Expected graduation May 2028. Currently entering the third year of a four-year programme.
Each page lists the methods used and what came out of it.
Testing whether small cellulose nanofibre loadings can close the strength gap between compostable starch blends and conventional packaging film.
Undergraduate researcher (senior project) · Jan 2026 – present · Ongoing
Assisted a graduate project on how spin speed and annealing temperature govern crystallite size in sol-gel ZnO films.
Undergraduate research assistant · Jun – Nov 2025
Built an open workflow that replaced manual particle counting in our lab course, cutting analysis time and removing operator bias.
Independent project, arising from SCMS 242 Materials Characterisation · Sept – Dec 2025
Instruments operated and techniques performed, with how far each has been taken.
No publications yet — I am an undergraduate and have not yet submitted work for publication. The notes section has written summaries of papers I have read.
Mahidol University · 2025
Awarded for a semester GPA above 3.50 in the 2024/25 academic year.
School of Materials Science and Innovation, Mahidol University · 2025
Team of three, for a compostable moulded-pulp packaging concept. Judged on technical feasibility and life-cycle reasoning.
Faculty of Science, Mahidol University · Aug 2025 – present
Supervise two first-year laboratory sections of roughly 24 students each: pre-lab briefings, technique demonstration, safety enforcement and marking of lab reports. Around 6 hours a week during term.
Mahidol University Science Outreach · Oct 2024 – Oct 2025
Ran hands-on polymer demonstrations for upper-secondary students at two weekend camps, including a slime-viscosity activity used to introduce crosslinking. Presented in Thai and English.
Summaries of papers I have read, and write-ups of techniques I have worked out.
Cutting clean dogbones from a 90-micron cast film is harder than it sounds. What finally worked, after a lot of wasted material.
Aug 2026
A summary of Ferreira et al. on maleic-anhydride compatibilisation, and what it changed about how I read my own SEM micrographs.
Jul 2026
The practical details a host lab needs before it can invite anyone.
Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand