Pratik B. Patnaik has always challenged the boundaries of his capabilities and strives to bring about positive changes through his creativity and intelligence at the work-place and the class-rooms he is a part of. He has always been the leader of the pack, from representing the Electrical and Electronics branch in his Bachelor's university to being the face of his Master's program at TUM.

Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Pratik is entitled with strong leadership and enterprising nature. Pratik believes that being true to self makes him more efficient as he can assess his flaws and work with his strengths. Apart from studies, he devotes his time to sports and loves socialising with his family and friends. It is because of his involvement in sports and athleticism, he has developed a disciplined and organised way of living.

During his Master's degree studies, Pratik was exposed to cross-cultural environment with fellow students, colleagues and professors from different countries and ethnicities. It proved to be a learning curve for him as he got to understand the subtle yet vast diversities.

Although he wanted to be a F1 driver when he was in school, Pratik found interest in semiconductors during his engineering days. Soon after completing his bachelors he decided to pursue his interests and took up Master's in Micro-electronics at TUM.

The Micro-electronics program is a joint degree program by TUM, Germany and NTU, Singapore. Most of the academic modules were done at NTU following which Pratik came to Munich as a researcher to write his thesis at Measurement and Sensor Technology Institute, TUM, Germany.

Expected to graduate by June, 2016, Pratik is presently seeking a full-time employment opportunity in an organisation dealing with design and fabrication of semiconductor devices with assurance of commitment and sincerity in his work.

You can contact Pratik at [email protected]