Author Archives: Nathalie Pettorelli

Julia Cooke is a Lecturer in Ecology at the Open University, Milton Keynes.  She is a plant functional biologist, who enjoys fieldwork – from counting thousands of seedlings in outback Australia, to collecting leaves in savannas to making measurements from … Continue reading →

Sasha Berdichevski is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge. She studied medical science and physiology, and then switched to tissue engineering. Sasha tells us that her father encouraged her to question the world around her and how … Continue reading →

Megan McGregor is a PhD student in the department of Materials Science at Cambridge University. Here she tells us how a physics teacher encouraged her to aim high and why she is excited by creating new materials that could be used … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →