Nina Mamcarz

Year the scholarship was awarded:

2025

Area of expertise

Science

Student at TU Delft, one of the world’s leading universities in aerospace engineering. At the age of 18, she designed and built an unmanned surveillance aircraft as part of a university team, and a year later developed a turbopump for rocket propulsion within the Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering group. She participated in a European Space Agency Academy (ESA Academy) training programme at ESTEC focused on space robotics, as well as in a design course at the CERN innovation centre in Geneva. She is a recipient of the nationwide Queen Hedvig Scholarship and the Grand Prize of the Adamed SmartUP 2024 programme in the “Engineering and Robotics” category, awarded as one of three winners out of more than 10,000 applicants. She completed the IB Diploma Programme with the maximum score of 45/45, placing her in the global top 0.1%.

Within the Honours Programme, she conducts research on structural material with energy storage potential at the TU Delft laboratory (Department of Aerospace Materials and Structures). With the support of the Foundation, she completed a semester exchange at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, one of Asia’s leading engineering institutions. She has participated in the International Astronautical Congress 2025 in Sydney and attended sessions of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UN COPUOS) in Vienna in February 2026. She is currently undertaking an internship at the Polish space-sector company Creotech Instruments. After completing her bachelor’s degree, she plans to pursue a master’s degree specialising in space systems engineering.

In parallel, she is engaged in initiatives supporting the development of younger students. For the past two years, she has been assisting Polish high school students in the application process to universities in the Netherlands and supporting recruitment activities for the Our Future Foundation and Adamed SmartUP programmes. She has delivered a webinar on career pathways in the space industry and previously volunteered at a social care home, where she supported children with their studies and homework.