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This project helped Mélanie leapfrog into the field of smart cities and sustainable development, as she later completed projects on dometic biogas implementation in Indonesia and reducing air pollution in the Randstaad region of the Netherlands.
For Mélanie's final year of her bachelor's she followed civil and environmental engineering courses during her study abroad at the University of Michigan, and then completed her bachelor's thesis as a visitng visiting student in MIT's Senseable City Labon the topic of waste collection with autonomous boats in the canals of Amsterdam. In September 2019, Mélanie began her 2 year Master's in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
Mélanie has also been a very active member of her UIF team for the 3 years of her bachelor's. Mélanie helped launch the cross-cohort UTwente UIF team, and chaired this team for a whole year, through the highs of the Keeping Talent in Twente project and the very first European Meetup (for more details, see universityinnovationfellows.nl). During her final year abroad, she could not distance herself from the team, skyping into weekly team meetings, launching a new project on campus and being a day leader for two days of the 2nd ever European Meetup.