• An interview with Jorge Villa-Vélez

    An interview with Jorge Villa-Vélez

    Name: Jorge Villa-Vélez Current Job: Postdoctoral Researcher Scientific Discipline/Field: Astrophysics Country: France Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+,etc.): G Website: https://jurgenvilla.github.io/ Twitter or other social media handle: @Jurgenvilla What does your job involve? My job involves analyzing photometric and spectroscopic data from ground-based and in space telescopes. I study the physical properties of distant galaxies through their Read more

  • An interview with Alex Fink

    An interview with Alex Fink

    Name: Alex Fink Current Job: Reader Scientific Discipline/Field: Algebra and combinatorics Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G Website: http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~fink/ Twitter or other social media handle: n/a What does your job involve? I do research in algebraic combinatorics with a geometric flavour. Here are a couple of my favourite objects to study. Tropical varieties are polyhedral “shadows” of algebraic varieties, the solution Read more

  • The future of the LGBTQ+ STEMinar (and a brief pause)

    The future of the LGBTQ+ STEMinar (and a brief pause)

    This is typically the time of the year when LGBTQ+ STEM opens to expressions of interest for hosting the next LGBTQ+ STEMinar event. Whilst we are extremely excited about the upcoming 7th LGBTQ+ STEMinar, in Glasgow on 14 January 2022, we have decided to pause the STEMinar series after this event.  When we started the Read more

  • An interview with Alison (Allie) Smith

    An interview with Alison (Allie) Smith

    Name: Alison (Allie) Smith Current Job: Ph.D. Candidate Scientific Discipline/Field: Developmental Biology Country: United States of America Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G,Q Twitter or other social media handle: @EctopicEyeQueer What does your job involve? I study cell determination during development and how that can go awry. Specifically, I study what happens when you challenge a cell with two fates. How does Read more

  • An interview with Louis-Stéphane Le Clercq

    An interview with Louis-Stéphane Le Clercq

    Name: Louis-Stéphane Le Clercq Current Job: PhD Candidate Scientific Discipline/Field: Genetics Country: South Africa Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G, Q, NB Website: https://sites.google.com/view/lsleclercq Twitter or other social media handle: @leclercq0 What does your job involve? At present I am an enrolled candidate of the postgraduate development program, performing thesis research towards the conferment of the Ph.D. degree in Genetics, from the University Read more

  • An interview with Simon Fox

    An interview with Simon Fox

    Name: Simon Fox Current Job: Public Health Doctoral student Scientific Discipline/Field: Public Health Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-james-fox-3a08a213/ Twitter or other social media handle: @BeardyAcademic What does your job involve? I am currently researching the healthy ageing of LGBT+ populations. So that’s a lot of reading, writing and talking to people! I gave a long talk Read more