Aditya

Hello! My name is Aditya. I am originally from Mumbai, India and I arrived in the Netherlands almost six years ago to do the Sustainable Energy Technology Masters at the UT.  Post-graduation I became a PhD candidate in the Energy Group (part of the Mathematics and Operations Research Group) of the EEMCS faculty. Currently I am in the third year of my PhD. 

In a nutshell, I want to push for the interests of researchers, including students and doctoral candidates (PhDs and PDEngs). 

More specifically, coming from a research background, my main focus is on reducing the burden of unnecessary bureaucracy that currently plagues research work at the UT, especially the doctoral journey. Think mandatory courses or the compulsory T&SP. Simply put, I think researchers should focus their time on doing the thing they are hired to do: research. A good bureaucracy is a lean one that comprises of the minimal rules required for a researcher to function at their individual optimum. Any bureaucracy that detracts from that should be strictly eliminated. My goal is to work with the board of the UT and its policy makers to ensure ways in which researchers can allocate more time to deep work, which I think in the current world of ‘mandatory trainings’ and ‘fill another form culture’, is being threatened. 

The opportunity to envision change also comes with the responsibility of executing it. Now that I have gone through some of the pain points of being an international masters’ student and of the doctoral journey, I decided that actually joining the UT Council and working towards eliminating these pain points for other researchers is better than just complaining about them.  

Hope you agree and wish me luck!

 Cheers,

Aditya

a.pappu@utwente.nl