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Author Archives: Nathalie Pettorelli
I have one of the girliest jobs around: Meet Katie Hassell
Katie Hassell (@khassellspace) is a Spacecraft Thermal Engineer at Airbus Defence and Space, based in Stevenage. Since joining just over four years ago, she has worked on EarthCARE, Solar Orbiter, PLATO and LISA PathFinder; as well as being an active STEM … Continue reading
I could count the number of female lecturers I was taught by on one hand: Meet Jessie Durk
Jessie Durk is currently a PhD student at Queen Mary University London, researching theoretical cosmology. She is passionate about science communication, believing it is crucial we inspire the next generation! She currently juggles her PhD studies alongside working at the … Continue reading
The academic route is not for the fainthearted: Meet Samantha Terry
Dr Samantha Terry is currently a lecturer in Radiobiology at King’s College London. She is a biologist and has participated in many different type of science communication, including ‘I’m a scientist, get me out of here’ and ‘Pint of Science’. … Continue reading
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Data Science – Demystified!
By Hao Ni (@Hello19860630). Hao currently works as a senior postdoctoral fellow at Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. Her research interest is to model the evolution of complex systems that are impacted by noise using the theory of rough path and … Continue reading
Against all odds: finding my own path to science
By Vicki Clifton A/Professor Vicki Clifton is a is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellow who is currently a Professorial Research Fellow with the Mothers and Babies Theme at Mater Medical Research Institute in Brisbane Australia, … Continue reading
Why I love being a lecturer – by a lecturer in the first year of the job
By Dr Regan Early (@ReganEarly), based at the University of Exeter. Regan studies the effects of human activity on wildlife around the world. Her basic approach is to use patterns in species distributions to understand many aspects of species ecology – climate tolerances, biotic … Continue reading
Entitled as anyone else to explore: Meet Jessica Clark
Jessica Clark is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, working in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Her research is about how epigenetic maternal effects can impact offspring fitness and the role this plays in disease transmission. Catch Jessica on her … Continue reading
Deaf life stories: What they reveal about the potential within all of us
Dr. Goedele A. M. De Clerck is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Social Research with Deaf People (SORD) group at the University of Manchester (UK). She has been working with deaf people and sign communities in Europe, the United States … Continue reading
Get rid off the “pomp”: Meet Clare Duncan
Clare Duncan (@whereisklara) is currently a PhD student based between the Institute of Zoology (Zoological Society of London) and University College London. Her research focuses on the services that mangrove forests provide to humans in the face of climate change: carbon … Continue reading
Strong role models is key: Meet AnnMarie O’Donoghue
AnnMarie O’Donoghue is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry in Durham University; her research group works on organic and biological chemistry with a particular focus on Sustainable Chemistry and Organocatalysis. Here she tells us how having mentors and … Continue reading