Michaela Benz | Honor Society®

About

I try to be unbiased every time I notice I could have prejudices or expectations. I invite you to do the same :)

honor society

invitation
invitation to the DPG

invitation to join the German Society for Physics upon outstanding results in the final physics exams
non-financial scholarship and honorable mentioning

honors upon graduating as the best of my class

Career goal: I dream of making a difference in climate change through combining science and engineering in the most useful ways. I believe that I can find a way to improve our current technologies if I double major in engineering and physics. Thus, I want to live for research.
Graduate school interests: I am interested in any combination of physics (and other sciences) and engineering.
Outside the classroom: Besides learning and changing perspectives, I love skiing, photography, nature, and being outside, especially in the rain or in the dark (or both). I also enjoy reading, building small models, and doing jigsaw puzzles once I have been outside enough. I would trade anything for fantasy.

volunteer for everything (i.e. office and manual work)

German Federal Agency for Technical Relief, Germany

Jan 2020 – Aug 2020
supporting the Emmaüs community in Escalquens, France, in their recycling and retailing

Concordia, France

Aug 2019
supporting archaeological excavations through digging, cleaning, sorting, and documenting

Way of Thracians, Bulgaria

May 2019 – Jul 2019
supporting the communities in the mountains and at the coast of Cyprus

PlanBe - Plan It Be It, Cyprus; private hosts (workaway.info)

Mar 2019 – May 2019
gardening

host family (on workaway.info)

Feb 2019
supporting a language school in Vologda, Russia

World4U, Russia

Dec 2018
participating in a multinational photography workcamp; supporting host families

SCI, host families in Iceland and on the Faroe Islands (on workaway.info)

Nov 2018
skiing coach for children (still ongoing, stopped due to Covid-19)

TSV Schwangau, Germany

Dec 2016 – Feb 2020
providing guidance for the new confirmands (and other work supporting the community)

local church community in Füssen, Germany

Jan 2015 – Sep 2016
providing guidance for the newest students of my school

Gymnasium Hohenschwangau

Sep 2014 – Jul 2016