Interested in a career in chemistry? This Encounter shows one of the options available to you if you take it at degree level. You can also use it to help you revise polymers and catalysis.
Pursuing a year in industry had not even crossed my mind when I first arrived at university, eager but inexperienced and ready to get stuck into 4 years of chemistry. Therefore it was with something of a sense of bemusement that earlier this year I found myself, clutching a large backpack stuffed with euros and emergency tea supplies, at the station in Sittard, a small town wedged between Belgium and Germany in the south Netherlands. I was about to start a 12-month placement at DSM, a life and materials sciences company.
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