Author Archives: Isla Watton

Rachael Chandler, Biomedical Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, is taking part in Soapbox Science Reading with the talk:“Parkinson’s, DNA and… microscopic worms?!” Hi! I’m Rachael, a doctoral researcher at the University of Reading in the first year … Continue reading →

Maria Christodoulou is a postdoctoral researcher in Biostatistics at the University of Oxford. Trained both as a statistician and a biologist, she is interested in the development and application of statistical tools to big evolutionary questions. In her current position, … Continue reading →

Dr. Leah Morabito, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, is taking part in Soapbox Science Reading on 8th June with the talk:“Super massive black holes: how do they shape galaxies?”   I am a radio astronomer, working as a Hintze … Continue reading →

  Daisy Shearer is an experimental quantum physicist and first year PhD student at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute. Her PhD project focuses on spintronics in the semiconductor InSb for initialization of electron spin quantum bits. With a background in designing semiconductor … Continue reading →

Theresa Robinson (@snorkel_maiden), Zoological Society of London/University of Reading is taking part in Soapbox Science London on 25th May 2019 with the talk: “Three’s a crowd? Mating system diversity in the Mauritius Fody”       As I started preparing for SoapBox … Continue reading →

Dr Sarah Harris (@sarahthephd), Research Assistant in Regenerative Medicine, Keele University is taking part in Soapbox Science Stoke-on-Trent on 6th July 2019 with the talk: “Why would you want to make your spine glow in the dark?” Hello, my name is … Continue reading →

Elisabeth Wetzer is a PhD student in Computerised Image Processing at the Dept. of Information Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden. She will take part in the Soapbox Science event in Uppsala on 25 May where she will talk about “Training … Continue reading →

Emmeline Gray is a first year PhD student at the Open University, Milton Keynes. Emmeline is trying to reconstruct what the monsoon in India was doing about two to five million years ago by using marine sediments and the microfossils … Continue reading →

Cynthia is an EngD (engineering doctorate) researcher in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing. She is based at Cranfield University, and her research is focused on converting by-products of paper mills into valuable resources for … Continue reading →

Alice studied a BSc in Conservation Biology and Geography at the University of Exeter in Cornwall. She then went on to undertake an MSc in Earth Science with the Open University. This culminated in an independent research project investigating the … Continue reading →