Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

Ah. This is funny @ProfRachelGaN I remembered you from so where. You were my Devices lecturer. Very empathetic. Defo not the norm for me as one of the very few disabled working-class BME students there. At one point you also did Microstructures. I still have your notes

Glad you remember me! Hope the notes are useful!

Understanding ferroelectric, pyroelectric and piezoelectric effects. Just generally the importance of directional order of polymers. Phenomenas of dislocations and pinnings etc. It allows me to see overlapping ideas in other subject areas. Applying ideas I novel ways.

It's a real mixed bag of a course, but it does highlight connections which run through materials science, which is the best part from my viewpoint.

In NatSci, MatSci & Chem Dept seem to run good courses. I was a fan of the labs, they really cemented the concepts, I wish there were more projects. It would have been good to have some materials informatics.

We do some at parts ii and iii these days, I think.

Sounds fun. I did Astrophysics (mostly Maths). But was barred from continuing into Part III b/c of medical complications during the exam period. (Common story for disable students there). Built an AI startup after I left, now just applying for MPhil & PhD.