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Category Archives: 2017 speakers blog
Don’t get wound up in what you DON’T know: Meet Joanna Brims
Joanna Brims is in her first year of her PhD at Cardiff University. Her PhD surrounds the Panama Isthmus – the land bridge which joins North and South America – and how and when it got there. She mainly does … Continue reading
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Take every opportunity, you never know where it will lead: Meet Alex Shephard
Dr Alex Shephard studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford before completing a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Bristol University in 2014. She then moved to Cardiff to take up her current position as a postdoctoral researcher in … Continue reading
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Science brings people together: Meet Marlou Perquin
Marlou Perquin (@mnperquin) is from the Netherlands, where she did a Bachelor in Psychology and in Philosophy, as well as a Research Master in Cognitive Neuroscience and Master in Philosophy at Leiden University. Afterwards, Marlou moved to Wales for a … Continue reading
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Scientists need to get their voices out there: Meet Debbi Pedreschi
Debbi Pedreschi is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on finding ways to implement the ecosystems approach to fisheries management at the Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland. You can catch Debbi on her soapbox on the July 15th in Galway, where she’ll give a talk called: ““The … Continue reading
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Success comes from passion and not “genius”: Meet Giulia Mancardi
Giulia Mancardi is a final year PhD student at University College London, her project is focused on how calcium phosphate, the main component of bone and teeth, originates. She is a computational chemist, so do not expect to see her … Continue reading
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Truth is not set in stone but evolves with knowledge: Meet Francesca D. Ciccarelli
Francesca D. Ciccarelli is Associate Professor at King’s College London and Group Leader at The Francis Crick Institute. Her research aims to understand the role of genetic alterations in human cancer using a combination of computational and experimental approaches. You … Continue reading
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Discussion, collaboration and making mistakes results in the most interesting discoveries: Meet Katherine Holt
Dr Katherine B. Holt is Reader in Physical Chemistry at UCL. She carries out multidisciplinary research in electrochemistry and studies of the solid-solution interface. You can catch Katherine on her soapbox on the 27th of May in London, with a talk called: “Diamond – … Continue reading
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If it scares you, do it anyway!: Meet Siân Fogden
Dr Siân Fogden (@DrSianF) is a Nanotechnologist with an Oxford University chemistry degree and an Imperial College London PhD. She spent five years in southern California working as the Market and Technology Development Manager for Linde Nanomaterials, a new division … Continue reading
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We need more role models in STEM: Meet Kari Hyll
Born and raised in Sweden, Dr Kari Hyll is an imaging spectroscopist with a burning passion for planetary science. Kari is currently a Research Associate in Earth Observation in the Geography Department at King’s College London. The Wildfire Research Team … Continue reading
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Doing conservation science in challenging field conditions: Meet Jessica Bryant
Dr Jessica Bryant is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Zoology. She works with Hainan Gibbons in order to try to develop novel monitoring technologies for the surviving gibbon population, and explores appropriate methods to reconnect the fragmented Bawangling … Continue reading
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