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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Disciplines are human constructions, we can choose to extend beyond their borders
Siobhan Braybrook is a Career Development Fellow at The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Her research aims to understand how patterns of growth emerge from biological systems by combining principals from biology, mathematics, physics and engineering. Here Siobhan tells us … Continue reading
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Make academia more family friendly: Meet Danielle Mersch
Danielle Mersch is currently a Human Frontiers Science fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Danielle studied Biology, and almost switched to geophysics after the first year. An internship on dispersal behavior of lizards convinced her to stick … Continue reading
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There’s always more to understand: Meet Siân Lane
Siân Lane is a research scientist with the Met Office, where she studies weather to help improve weather forecasts. She studied physics at university, followed by an MSc in meteorology. She loves the outdoor fieldwork and flying large balloons around … Continue reading
Electric power knows no gender: Meet Nikita Hari
Nikita Hari is a researcher, academic consultant and social entrepreneur from India with a vision to uplift society through education. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies in Electrical Engineering in the Power and Energy group at University of Cambridge. Nikita … Continue reading
I always want the latest gadget! Meet Sarah Bohndiek
Sarah Bohndiek is a research group leader at the University of Cambridge. She is a physicist working at the interface with biomedical sciences, trying to improve our understanding of cancer and increase early detection of the disease. Sarah is also … Continue reading
More emphasis on doing collaborative research: Meet Nicola Smyllie
Nicola Smyllie is currently a post-doctoral neuroscientist working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where she also did her PhD. Here she tell Soapbox Science how she loves seeing the circadian rhythms in brain tissue and that she believes … Continue reading
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What can a tea bag tell you about soil?
By Sarah Duddigan (@SDuddigan), speaker at our Oxford 2016 event Growing up there were two things I got real enjoyment from at school, one was science lessons, and the other was playing outside and getting muddy. Never did I … Continue reading
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The quest to surpass Nature- what does she know that chemists don’t?
By Minh Tran, University of Oxford Chemicals originated from Nature have contributed to the advance of modern medicine, from penicillin to anti-cancer drugs. How does she make them so easily and effectively, and can we apply what we learn … Continue reading
Cracks and Fracture are key word of my job! Meet Dr Dong Liu
Dr Dong Liu is currently an EPSRC postdoctoral Research Fellow and a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Brunel Research Fellow, based in the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. Her research is on the deformation and fracture of … Continue reading
Get to know your biological clock: Meet Elise Facer-Childs
“Tick tock, tick tock”……..What do you think when you hear this phrase? A clock? Correct answer! But maybe not the traditional clock you have on your wall or wear on your wrist. Inside almost every cell in the body there … Continue reading
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