Category Archives: 2017 speakers blog

Susan Michie is Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at UCL. Her research focuses on developing the science of behaviour change interventions and applying behavioural science to interventions. You can catch Susan on her soapbox … Continue reading →

Carolyn Moores is Professor of Structural Biology at Birkbeck University of London. She investigates the cytoskeletons of cells using electron microscopy. You can catch Carolyn on her soapbox on the 27th of May in London, where she’ll give a talk called: “Size matters: studying … Continue reading →

Dr Tracy Kivell is a palaeoanthropologist from the University of Kent. Her research focuses on extant and fossil apes, to further our understanding of the origin of human hand use throughout our evolutionary history. Here she talks about her background and … Continue reading →

Dr Orode Aniejurengho received her doctorate degree from the University of Brighton in 2016. Her research focused on developing new biomaterial-virus combinations for treating catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Orode’s research interest is in biomaterials for application in the fields of tissue … Continue reading →

Jenny Jaffe is a Wildlife Veterinarian working at the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). She investigates which diseases can affect reintroductions of endangered British species of animals, from wart-biter crickets and dormice to smooth snakes and … Continue reading →

Emma McKinley is a Ser Cymru Research Fellow based at Cardiff University – she moved to Cardiff in June 2016, having been at the University of Chichester for 5 years.  Her work is part of a large research project called … Continue reading →

By Sasha Weiditch, who is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, Mississauga where she studies the most plentiful entity on the planet – the bacteriophage! Her research delves into the inner workings of bacteriophage and how they might … Continue reading →

Ann Ager gained a PhD in vascular biology from the University of Cambridge and moved to Professor Judah Folkman’s laboratory, Harvard Medical School, USA, to study microvascular endothelium. She then moved to Professor Bill Ford’s laboratory in Manchester, UK, to … Continue reading →

Malgosia Pakulska (@SCBakes) is the Communications and Development Officer at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. She is also a science writer for Research2Reality, a blog designed to engage the public in Canadian research. Malgosia completed her PhD … Continue reading →

Professor Claudia Eberlein studied Physics at the University of Leipzig and gained her Diploma there in 1990. She then moved to the University of Sussex where she completed her PhD in 1993. After two years of postdoctoral work at the … Continue reading →