Natalie Salemink
UTS Science is a place where students can ask questions, flourish, explore and grow.
What organisation do you work for?
Capital Markets CRC
What position do you hold?
Analyst
What degree you are currently studying?
Graduate Certificate in Mathematics
The year you started this degree?
2017
What year of study are you currently in?
First
What did you do before you started your course?
Bachelor of Business in Finance and working as an Analyst for a Fintech start-up
What motivated you to study this degree/major?
This degree has helped me to refine my hard skills and see the world through another lens. Mathematics is fascinating, because it can reduce the impossible paradoxes of the universe down to manageable human terms, though I suppose it is those things to some degree.
What do you enjoy most about your degree?
Meeting amazing professors, like Anthony Dooley, who infect their students with their enthusiasm for the subject.
Why did you choose to study at UTS?
That's easy. UTS has the best ranked course in my field in the country.
What is it like to study at UTS Science?
It's very accommodating and nurturing environment at UTS Science, where students can ask questions, flourish, explore and grow.
What advice you would give to students studying this degree?
Give 100 per cent and use the Maths Study Centre on Campus. Solve more problems than you're given. Find multiple ways to do formal proofs. Because.... the other interpretation of the previous sentence may also be true.
What would you like to do once you complete your degree?
Continue the learning journey and apply lots of the new skills on the job.
What other activities do you participate/do at uni?
UTS Running Club.
Tell us something interesting about yourself
I love being in nature, and I run ultra marathons and marathons.
