MSRP: Nathalie Thelemaque, 2019
Nathalie Thelemaque processes samples as a part of the Plata Lab during an MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) internship; she and her fellow researchers were studying methane contamination in groundwater, Summer 2019.
Pursuing a doctoral degree wasn’t in Nathalie Thelemaque’s future plans until she was an undergraduate participant in the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), working in the Plata lab that inspired her academic trajectory today.
“At the time, I wasn’t necessarily looking into doing water research. I’m very structures-based so at first I was a little wary about going into the lab because I wasn’t really sure if that’s what I wanted to do.”
Thelemaque’s academic interest was at the intersection of civil engineering and sustainability, climate resiliency and social justice. However, this pathway wasn’t an apparent field of study, she recalls, “I was able to forge my own path”
MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering @mit_cee, Instagram, 29 June 2021