Arman Athwal

Academic mentorship has played a massive role in my professional life, and I have been on both ends of the dynamic throughout my life. In my high school and undergraduate years, I received transformative guidance from unstructured mentorships, and my mentors are the definitive reason why I've succeeded in biomedical research and why I earned admittance to UCL’s PhD program in Medical AI. On the other hand, over the last 5 years I’ve also held structured mentor positions for younger students in several capacities. While I’ve personally served as a volunteer mentor, I have also led teams that designed STEM mentorship programmes to develop professional skills in high school and undergraduate university students. My mentorship style embodies a clear, personalized, and energetic communication style, and I would carry that into the work I would like to do for UCL MedTech’s Mentorship programme.