It might be a long flight home to visit her family in Singapore, but international graduate student Mei Lin Chan knows that studying at UC Davis is well worth the mileage.

“At UC Davis you can’t help but pick up knowledge from all different fields,” says Chan. As an example, the projects Chan works on involve extensive collaboration with biologists on campus. “By experiencing the way scientists from other disciplines approach and interpret their research, it allows me to become more knowledgeable of the possibilities and the application of my work,” continues Chan. “I am already prepared with the skill set to work in the collaborative environments that scientists at the cutting edge of research expect.”

Chan’s research interests include Nano/Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS/MEMS); Microfluidics and Biosensor Technology; and Nano-Optics.

Since completing her graduate degree from UC Davis... Chan is a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis.