Tanuka Sen almost didn’t make it to Australia for her PhD studies. After completing her undergraduate studies in her home country of India, she applied to several universities in Europe. But there was a single Australian university on her list: ANU.

She already had a few offers from European universities, but then an ANU professor at the Research School of Biology got in touch with her, suggesting she apply for a scholarship.

“The process went so smoothly: I got this scholarship and decided to leave behind the offers from Europe and come to Australia,” says Tanuka.

Despite arriving in Australia just in time for severe bushfires, a hailstorm and a global pandemic, she says that coming to ANU was “the best option” for her: “I’m really happy with how it has turned out!”

Now that she’s finished her PhD, she gets to experience the best of both parts of the world after accepting an offer to continue her postdoctoral studies at the University of Oxford in the UK.

Read the full story at the Australian National University College of Science website.