Placements and Internships
UCL has partnerships with a number of different organisations who offer opportunities for students to engage in real world projects and challenges during their studies.
An important part of your university experience is preparing yourself for a career after your studies. It’s important to gain and develop key skills to make yourself more employable once you have graduated.
Work experience gives you real-life employability skills that are invaluable when applying for a job as a graduate. Employers expect a range of transferable skills when they recruit graduates, such as problem solving, analytical skills, team skills and commercial awareness. Taking part in a placement or internship during your studies mean you’re more likely to stand out from the crowd when applying for jobs.
MPBE Summer Studentships
Our departmental studentships offer a stipend for UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering students to pursue a project developed in collaboration with an academic over a number of weeks in the summer.
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- Ksenia (MSci Medical Physics) - Dr Erwin Alles, Dr Semyon Bodian and Shaoyan Zhang, Integration of optical ultrasound with a surgical robotic platform for lung biopsy guidance
- Anson (BSc Physics with Medical Physics) - Dr Reem Ahmad, Dr Colin Baker and Prof Andrew Nisbet, Development of a high throughput platform for radiobiology studies using proton radiation in a clinical facility
- Elena (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Prof Bradley Treeby, Modelling MR-guided focused ultrasound treatments for essential tremor
- Yousra (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Loïc Lerville-Rouyer, Fatima Mansour, Prof Paul Beard and Dr Rehman Ansari, Development of an ex-vivo Organ Perfusion System for Photoacoustic Imaging Research
- Tanya (iBSc Intercalated Degree) - Dr Efthymios Maneas, Jia-En (Danny) Chen and Prof Adrien Desjardins, Design and development of training models (phantoms) for robotic-assisted bronchoscopy
- Arham (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Dr Laxmi Muralidharan, Prostate cancer lesion prediction (with whole prostate masking) from bi-parametric MRI using deep learning
- Valentino (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Eve Hatten, Developing an app to help students with practical electronics
- Eva (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Dr Prabhav Reddy, Use of Large Language Models for Teaching Electronics in an University Setting
- Donny (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Dr Erwin Alles and Fraser Watt, Characterisation and implementation of optical ultrasound generating membranes
- Lorenzo (BEng Biomedical Engineering) - Dr Ziyan Guo, Compact robotic manipulator for MRI-guided neurosurgery
- Clement (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Eve Hatten, Development of resources for new Scenario
- Jonathan (BSc Physics with Medical Physics) - Dr Jamie Dean and Dr Peter Embacher, Extracting and describing cell fate dynamics in glioblastoma from live-cell imaging
- Saarah (MSci Medical Physics) - Dr Jamie Dean and Amin Lessan, Incorporating spatiotemporal patterns of brain development into paediatric brain tumour radiotherapy planning to reduce treatment side effects
- Charlotte (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Prof Adam Gibson, Multispectral imaging of skin reaction in radiotherapy
- Desta (BSc Physics with Medical Physics) - Dr Jamie McClelland and Poppy Nikou, Optimising parameters for inter-patient registrations of head and neck cancer patients
- Karol (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Prof Adrien Desjardins and Jia-En Chen, Teaching Resources for 3D Printing of Clinical Training Models
Supervisor and Project Titles
- Senta (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Prof Adrien Desjardins - Smart Gloves for Surgical Interventions
- Alejandro (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Dr Evangelos Mazomenos - Machine Learning for Automated Error Detection in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
- Mihaela (MSci Medical Physics) - Prof Marinko Sarunic - Medical image processing for OCT
- Nyma (MSci Medical Physics) - Prof Robert Speller and Dr Rob Moss - 3D printed detector system for directional radiation monitoring
- Raluca (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Dr Prabhav Nadipi Reddy and Eve Hatten - Automatic Grip Force Control in a Robotic Hand
- Sumudith (MEng Biomedical Engineering) - Dr Zhi Li and Dr Sacha Noimark - Compact and miniaturized fiber-optic magnetic sensor using magnetic elastomeric composites
- Wendy (iBSc Intercalated Degree) - Dr Lynsey Duffell and Dr Sarah Massey - The effects of non-invasive electrical stimulation on neurophysiological outcomes
MPBE Summer Studentship Blogs
MPBE Summer Studentship: Saarah
Incorporating spatiotemporal patterns of brain development into paediatric brain tumour radiotherapy planning to reduce treatment side effects
MPBE Summer Studentship: Karol
Teaching resources for 3D printing of clinical training models
MPBE Summer Studentship: Charlotte
Multispectral imaging of skin reaction in radiotherapy
STMicroelectronics Internships
Student: Sirine Bhouri
Degree: Biomedical Engineering
Project Title: Monitoring of heart rate and activities with integrated ECG and motion sensors
Supervisor: Dr Terence Leung
The Institute of Healthcare Engineering Summer Studentship Scheme
The UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering (IHE) Summer Studentship Scheme gives undergraduate students an exciting opportunity to shadow clinicians and take part in a related research project.
Read about some of the projects:
UCL International Development Hub
Bringing together academics, students, non-profit, and industry organisations, UCL ID Hub provides a platform from which to engage, inspire, educate and collaborate on international development related activities, with the aim of better understanding and solving real-world challenges.
Rachel’s experience
The experience I had working with Young at Heart Ghana could be summarised in 3 words: amazing, inspiring, and eye-opening. Before the placement, I knew almost nothing about the Ed-tech industry but after having interesting conversations with the team at Young at Heart, I can confidently say with no doubt that I am familiar with the industry especially the accessibility of the use of educational technology in developing countries.
Employer: Young at Heart Ghana
Read Rachel’s full blog post here
Find out more about the UCL International Development Hub
