Mechanical engineering student in Milan, working towards aerospace.

I grew up in Pula, Croatia, in a family with Czech roots, and moved to Milan to study mechanical engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

Living between countries made Europe feel like home in a way that goes past national borders. That started early: in school I spent three years in the European Youth Parliament, first as a delegate and then as a chair, and joined as many Erasmus+ exchanges as I could.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed how I saw that. Peace in Europe stopped feeling like a given, and I started wanting to help protect it with my own skills. That is a big part of why I'm aiming at aerospace and defence engineering.

For a year I kept coming back to ideas for drone and automation projects, and in September 2026 a PoliMi colleague and I finally started building one. It is teaching me how a real system comes together, from the first calculation to the hardware, and it is the kind of work I want to keep doing.

I work best in demanding, fast-moving teams, with people who push each other, on problems that need a creative answer rather than a standard one. I bring energy to a team and I learn fast, especially when the challenge is real.

• Sept 2026 – now
  Project VolansPersonal project, with a PoliMi colleague

  Autonomous drone-in-a-box system, split into sixteen sub-projects. System integration, the Faust airframe, the Base and the software.

• Ongoing
  BSc Mechanical EngineeringPolitecnico di Milano, taught in Italian

  Mechanical design track, including a 12-ECTS industrial internship.

• June 2025
  Three-stage gear reducerLaboratorio CAD, PoliMi

  75 kW, 25:1 reducer sized in MATLAB and modelled in Creo. Reviewed and corrected in 2026.

• 2020
  Model European ParliamentDelegate

  Negotiated positions with delegates from other countries and presented committee proposals to a full plenary.

• 2018 – 2020
  European Youth ParliamentDelegate, then Chair

  Debated EU policy in international committees. As Chair, ran committee sessions and kept multinational teams on schedule.

A 6 to 12-month engineering internship from January 2027, in aerospace, defence or mechatronics, where I can work on design, testing and system integration.

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