Carla Prados Bodega

• Integrated Master’s in the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. 76% weighted average so far, on track for a First.
• Minor in Modern Applications of Engineering Mathematics: Engineering Mathematics in Finance (84.1%), then Stochastic Calculus and Uncertainty Analysis and Data Mining and Analysis this year.
• Engineering Mathematics in Finance covered maximum likelihood estimation for fat-tailed returns, CAPM by OLS in matrix form, Monte Carlo with inverse-transform sampling, constrained optimisation and bond pricing.
• Highest marks: Design & Professional Skills II (86.0%), Cardiac Engineering (85.7%), Engineering Mathematics in Finance (84.1%), Medical Instrumentation 2 (83.8%), Applied Tissue Engineering (82.6%), Anatomy and Physiology with Biomedical Applications (81.2%), Materials and Mechanics (79.3%), Design & Professional Skills I (78.3%), Engineering Challenges (77.5%).

• Awarded a First-Class grade.
• Three-week, 54-hour course from LSE’s Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, in the Data Science, AI and Research Methods programme.
• Ethics along the data-science pipeline: data governance, algorithmic bias and fairness, and explaining black-box models.
• AI in work and society: automation and inequality, privacy at work, concentration of power, value alignment, and authorship in AI art.

• Bilingual Diploma in Spanish and English.
• Four Higher Level subjects instead of the usual three: Mathematics Analysis and Approaches, Physics, Chemistry, and Business Management.
• Theory of Knowledge: A. Extended Essay in History: B.

• Competitively admitted to the Engineering stream.
• Entrepreneurship competition on products for health and well-being: the team designed a hospital device to comfort patients in emergency care.

• 9 IGCSEs, with A* in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
• Spanish Secondary School Diploma (ESO): 9.82/10.

Responsible for a £10,000 annual budget for a society of more than 600 members, covering spending plans, purchasing, sponsor contracts and risk assessments for events.

Led a team of three. Built a tiered sponsorship package, priced it for each of ten target sectors, and signed Bloomberg and White & Case. Wrote a full handover document for the next team.

Managed the £4,000 budget for the year’s events, handled Students’ Union payments and drafted sponsor contracts.

Elected every year since my first, now serving a third year. Represent more than 120 Biomedical Engineering students. Bring cohort feedback to staff through the Student Partnership Committee.

Give campus tours to groups of 25 or more, talk to prospective students about UCL, and write for UCL’s social media.