A Masters at Maynooth
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Damhnait Gleeson, did her BSc in Science in NUI Galway, then came to Maynooth University to undertake a postgraduate degree, the MSc in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing.
Damhnait explains that, like many undergraduates, “I was interested in figuring out a way to make my knowledge more useful, to make my means of applying the skills I had learned in my degree course more practical and make myself more employable.”
As a postgraduate student, she found that life in Maynooth was very different to her undergraduate experience; “It was a really intense, we covered a lot of material that year. It was an applied course, so a lot of the work was project based, sometimes we were spending 10 hours a day in the lab working away. It was an incredible learning environment and really, really useful”.
Today, Damhnait is working as a Mars Scientist at the Centro de Astrobiologia in Madrid, on a Mars analogue project characterising minerals, with the ultimate objective of determining the habitability of Mars.
Damhnait explains that, like many undergraduates, “I was interested in figuring out a way to make my knowledge more useful, to make my means of applying the skills I had learned in my degree course more practical and make myself more employable.”
As a postgraduate student, she found that life in Maynooth was very different to her undergraduate experience; “It was a really intense, we covered a lot of material that year. It was an applied course, so a lot of the work was project based, sometimes we were spending 10 hours a day in the lab working away. It was an incredible learning environment and really, really useful”.
Today, Damhnait is working as a Mars Scientist at the Centro de Astrobiologia in Madrid, on a Mars analogue project characterising minerals, with the ultimate objective of determining the habitability of Mars.