Maharashtra Farmer's Daughter: Aishwarya Shrikrishna Pawar Currently a Scholar at the University of Alberta

At the University of Alberta, she is “seeking to leverage her knowledge and experience in significant research fields like polymers, energy and biochemical engineering, nanofabrication and material science.”

At present, she is working on “reversibility of ZnO-Fe 3 O 4 nanocomposites on degrading methylene blue” at the varsity’s Chemicals and Materials Engineering department.

“During my second year of graduation, I worked on polymer-based bioplastics developing a method of preparing antibacterial bio-plastic with the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and bioplastic films both from the same raw material – starch in a single step. This project integrated my passion for research as the article acquired the best paper award in the National Research Writing Competition,” Aishwarya.

“I worked on photo-catalytic dye degradation the same year and successfully degraded insecticide “Imidacloprid” – a pollutant by Fe 3 O 4 -silver nanocomposites. Being in the top 5 students in the class during graduation, I maintained an appreciable academic record and also actively participated in co-curricular activities,” she added.

Currently, she is also working as a part-time teacher taking home tuition for secondary students along with her master’s abroad. She also secured 7 bands in the IELTS exam last year, which is an English language proficiency test conducted for higher education and global migration.