Name: Chloe Scientific Discipline/Field: Genomics/Environmental DNA Country: Canada Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): L Website: http://www.batacea.com Twitter or other social media handle: @cvrobinson92 What does your job involve? Coordinating community groups in collecting environmental samples (river sediment) and analysing samples using DNA metabarcoding to assess river health through the assemblages of invertebrates present. How did... Continue Reading →
An interview with Laura Siracusa
Name: Laura Siracusa Current Job: Researcher Scientific Discipline/Field: Pathobiology Country: Canada Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): L Website: NA Twitter or other social media handle: lsiracusa What does your job involve? I test therapeutic pharmaceutical drugs on cell cultures How did you get to this job (education etc.)? I was offered this job by my... Continue Reading →
An interview with Julia Brown
Name: Julia Brown Current Job: Manager, Geotechnical Engineering Scientific Discipline/Field: Geotechnical Engineering Country: Canada Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): LTQ Website: NA Twitter or other social media handle: NA What does your job involve? I manage a group of about 30 Geotechnical Engineers and staff at a mulit-national consulting firm. We provide all types of... Continue Reading →
An interview with Tyler Kelly
Name: Tyler Kelly Current Job: Professor at the University of Birmingham Scientific Discipline/Field: Mathematics Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G, Q, NB Website: https://sites.google.com/view/tylerkelly/ Twitter or other social media handle: @TyLKelly What does your job involve? I am a Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Birmingham. This is a permanent teaching... Continue Reading →
An interview with Adam Ostrowski
Name: Adam Ostrowski Current Job: Microbiologist Scientific Discipline/Field: Biotechnology/Renewable energy Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G Website: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=JrNMrzQAAAAJ&hl=en Twitter or other social media handle: @adamostr What does your job involve? I work with a young start-up company in Edinburgh. The technology we’re developing is aimed at increasing the efficiency of a waste disposal... Continue Reading →
An interview with Devyani Kumari
Name: Devyani Kumari Current Job: PhD Candidate Scientific Discipline/Field: Climate Policy, Energy Access, Environmental Finance Country: Canada Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): L Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devyanisingh/ Twitter or other social media handle: @Kumari_Devyani What does your job involve? I work with local communities to work on energy access issues, and climate policy. Currently, I am investigating the impact of woodfuel extraction on forest... Continue Reading →
An Updated Interview with Jonathan Wolf Mueller
You can read our first interview with Jon in 2016 here. Current Job: Lecturer in Endocrine Biochemistry Scientific Discipline/Field: Biochemistry and Endocrinology Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G Website: www.birmingham.ac.uk/jonathan-mueller; www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-wolf-mueller/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonWolfMueller What does your job involve? As a scientist, I see it as a great privilege to be allowed to follow my own curiosity. However, there... Continue Reading →
An interview with Michelle Steele
Name: Michelle Steele Current Job: Senior Software Engineer Scientific Discipline/Field: Environmental Science Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): Trans & Bi, a bit queer in terms of music taste! Website: https://github.com/octoberclub https://octoberclub.wordpress.com/ Twitter or other social media handle: @octoberclub What does your job involve? OS Data, Maps, GIS How did you get to... Continue Reading →
An interview with Javier Armentia
Name: Javier Armentia Current Job: Director of the Planetarium of Pamplona Scientific Discipline/Field: Astrophysics, Science communication Country: Spain Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G Website: http://www.ciencialgtbiq.es/ Twitter or other social media handle: @javierarmentia / @cienciaLGTBIQ What does your job involve? Science communication, education, outreach How did you get to this job (education etc.)? Physics degree... Continue Reading →
An interview with Evan Leto
Name: Evan Leto Current Job: Undergraduate Student Researcher Scientific Discipline/Field: Astrophysics Country: USA Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): TQ Website: NA Twitter or other social media handle: @evandmitri What does your job involve? I’ve analyzed IR spectra of massive young stars to identify emission lines and estimate mass accretion rates. How did you get to... Continue Reading →
