Category Archives: 2016 speakers blog

The academic route is not for the fainthearted: Meet Samantha Terry

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Nathalie Pettorelli

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!

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Nathalie Pettorelli

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 →

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Entitled as anyone else to explore: Meet Jessica Clark

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Nathalie Pettorelli

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 →

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Deaf life stories: What they reveal about the potential within all of us

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Nathalie Pettorelli

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 →

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Get rid off the “pomp”: Meet Clare Duncan

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Nathalie Pettorelli

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 →

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Strong role models is key: Meet AnnMarie O’Donoghue

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Nathalie Pettorelli

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 →

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Making the difficult decisions: Meet Dominique Tanner

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Nathalie Pettorelli

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 funded … Continue reading →

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From Engineering to Finance to Physics: Meet Katy Clough

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Nathalie Pettorelli

Katy Clough is a PhD student in Physics at King’s College London. She works on Einstein’s theory of General Relativity (GR), a theory of gravity which tells us that spacetime is curved by the presence of energy and matter. Join her … Continue reading →

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If I can do this aged 41 then anyone can: Meet Gillian Hill

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Nathalie Pettorelli

Gillian Hill is currently a PhD student at the University of Buckingham. She is a psychology researcher and teacher who hopes to share her experiences as a second career scientist in order to encourage others to take a leap into … Continue reading →

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