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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
An interview with Teodoro Laino
Name: Teodoro Laino Current Job: Distinguished Research Scientist, Manager at IBM Research Scientific Discipline/Field: AI for Chemistry, Materials // Computational Material Science Country: Switzerland Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G Website: https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=zurich-teo Twitter or other social media handle: @teodorolaino What does your job involve? Research in use of AI to accelerate material Design and innovation. It involves also people’s managing How did... Continue Reading →
An interview with Jason McNulty
Name: Jason McNulty Current Job: Education Focussed Associate Lecturer Scientific Discipline/Field: Inorganic Chemistry Country: United Kingdom (Scotland) Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G Website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/chemistry/people/jam242 Twitter or other social media handle: Twitter: @jasonm769 What does your job involve? I’m involved in teaching inorganic chemistry to UGs at all levels, running tutorials and helping run the practical labs. How did you get to... Continue Reading →
An updated interview with Robert Farley
you can read Rob's previous interview from 2015 here. Name: Robert Farley Current Job: Head of Medical Physics and Engineering / Consultant Clinical Scientist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Scientific Discipline/Field: Medical Physics (Radiotherapy Physics is my specialism, but I also have interests in Nuclear Medicine, Radiology Physics, MRI, Clinical Engineering and Physiological Measurement) Country: UK Pick some... Continue Reading →
An interview with Marco Carfagnini
Name:Marco Carfagnini Current Job: PhD candidate Scientific Discipline/Field: Mathematics Country: United States Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G Website: https://marcocarfagnini.wordpress.com What does your job involve? I mostly do research (in math), aka I spend most of my time thinking about my (research) problems, and how to solve them. I also TA and teach a few hours per week. How did... Continue Reading →
An interview with Arun Joseph
Name: Arun Joseph Current Job: DPhil student in Clinical Neurosciences Scientific Discipline/Field: Respiratory and Critical Care Physiotherapy Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G Website: https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/arun-joseph What does your job involve? Clinically I work as a respiratory and critical care physiotherapist. I also teach BSc and MSc Physiotherapy students at Coventry University. I am... Continue Reading →
An interview with Vishwadeep Mane
Name: Vishwadeep Mane Current Job: PhD student Scientific Discipline/Field: Cell biology Country: India Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G Twitter or other social media handle: @ManeVishwadeep What does your job involve? I am a PhD student involved in understanding role of mechanical forces in shaping development of leaf. How did you get to this job... Continue Reading →
