Aleš Svoboda

Country: Czech Republic
Sector: Healthcare
Job title: Medical Doctor
Subject of study: Extreme Medicine
Year of graduation: 2024
Type/Level of study: Postgraduate Taught

Current Employer/Organisation Name

Bulovka Hospital

What have you been doing since leaving Exeter, and what are you doing now?

Space medicine research, starting Flight Surgeon training at ESA right now.

Why did you choose this career? And what do you enjoy most about your work?

I wanted to do something fun 🙂
What do I enjoy most? The cool space part of it!

What did you enjoy most about your programme and what was the biggest highlight?

Learning new things and meeting new people.

What did you most enjoy about studying here?

Hiking in Dartmoor.

Why did you choose to study at Exeter?

It was the only university with this specific programme.

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