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Category Archives: 2016 speakers blog
Harnessing talent from less privileged countries: Meet Dominique Tanner
Dominique Tanner is a postdoctoral researcher at Cardiff University. She is an Australian geologist and seeks to understand how magmas and fluids concentrate valuable metals within the Earth’s surface. Dominique is currently part of a team of UK researchers … Continue reading
‘Engineering, PhD, researcher – who’d have thought?!’: Meet Hayley Wyatt
Hayley Wyatt is a researcher at the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University. Her research interests lie within the field of medical engineering, including the design of surgical devices and the behaviour of biological materials, such as blood vessels or … Continue reading
Seeing stuff through the eyes of a computer: Meet Hannah Dee
Hannah is a senior lecturer in Aberystwyth University, who works in computer vision. Her particular interests are shadows and shadow perception, the way light reflects of complicated surfaces (like faces and plants) and modelling and understanding the way in which … Continue reading
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“Nurture your scientific curiosity!”: Meet Henrieka Detlef
Henrieka Detlef is currently a second year PhD student at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on reconstructing climate change in the past 1.5 million years, in particular continental ice volume in combination with sea ice extent in the North Pacific … Continue reading
Fabulous mentors kept me inspired: Meet Emma Lane
Dr Emma Lane is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Cardiff University. Emma was born in London and studied Pharmacology for her first degree, before doing a PhD in Neuropharmacology at KCL, focusing on … Continue reading
Openness to the public: Meet Veronica Fowler
Dr. Veronica Fowler possesses an MSc in Equine Science and PhD in Virology. She has held scientific roles both at veterinary institutes (The Pirbright Institute and Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency) and non-government organisations (The Brooke) involved in veterinary based … Continue reading
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Make more scientists better listeners – Meet Lindsay Todman
Dr Lindsay Todman (@LindsayTodman) is a post-doctoral systems modeller at Rothamsted Research, an agricultural research institute in Harpenden. In her work she is using mathematical modelling to develop metrics of soil resilience, helping to quantify the important role that soils play … Continue reading
Bringing science out of the labs: Meet Kayleigh Wardell
Dr Kayleigh Wardell is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Matt Neale (University of Sussex), which investigates the mechanisms by which chromosomes are rearranged during meiosis. Meiosis is a specialised form of cell division that produces gametes and a … Continue reading
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