I did my placement at a pharmaceutical company called Roche, where I was an Associate Data Analyst, and I worked on several projects, such as helping to bring novel technologies like automation and machine learning into a business environment and helping to optimise the operational data from clinical studies.
I worked with clinical scientists, regulatory experts, business continuity managers and data engineers all around the world. I was lucky to also go on a company conference to Warsaw and worked with my team on the future aims of my department.
Having done my placement, I learnt that the transferable skills from my degree can be applied in settings that I did not expect. For example, being analytical and approaching problems with a scientific mindset helped me to solve problems in a data environment as opposed to the expected laboratory environment. This opened a whole new sector for me to consider, and I managed to secure a role as a Graduate Data Analyst at Experian.