Rahul Mandal
Rahul Mandal is an Indian-British baker and engineering researcher, who won the ninth series of The Great British Bake Off in 2018. Mandal also works as an engineering researcher at the University of Sheffield's Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre.Life and career
Born in Howrah, India, Rahul came to the United Kingdom in 2010 on a scholarship to study for his PhD in Optical Metrology at Loughborough University and his thesis was on Calibration and Adjustment of Coherence Scanning Interferometry. He joined the Nuclear AMRC in 2015.
In 2018, Mandal won the ninth series of The Great British Bake Off; the finale of which was viewed by 10 million households. He was then signed as a columnist for The Times Magazine, a part of the Saturday supplement of The Times, and occasionally cooks on the ITV daytime show This Morning. In 2018, Mandal became a STEM ambassador to inspire the next generation of engineers.Personal life
Mandal is single and is the only child of a housewife and businessman father. His father runs a business supplying engineering parts across India.
