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 Claire Malone
Name: Claire Malone Current Job: PhD Student at the University of Cambridge Scientific Discipline/Field: High Energy Physics Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): B, T, Q Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-malone-370a26122/ Twitter or other social media handle: @geeknproud42 on Twitter and @clairenbmalone42 on Instagram What does your job involve? I analyse data from the ATLAS Experiment... Continue Reading →
An interview with Craig Poku
Name: Dr Craig Poku Current Job: Postdoctoral Researcher Scientific Discipline/Field: Atmospheric and Climate Sciences Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): GBQ (I’m an interesting individual) Twitter or other social media handle: @c_poku93 What does your job involve? The first part of my research investigates how to improve fog modelling and forecasting over... Continue Reading →
An interview with Ben Britton
Name: Dr Ben Britton Current Job: Reader Scientific Discipline/Field: Materials Science and Engineering Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): GQ Website: http://www.expmicromech.com Twitter or other social media handle: @bmatb What does your job involve? I lead a research group who explore how materials work and how we can use them better. We look... Continue Reading →
An interview with Nicole Michel
Name: Nicole Michel Current Job: Senior Quantitative Ecologist Scientific Discipline/Field: Bird conservation Country: United States Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): I identify as queer, but more specifically I’m closer to B (bisexual) Website (personal, work, ORCID, – you don’t have to put one down): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole_Michel Twitter or other social media handle (if applicable): @Nicole_Michel What... Continue Reading →
An interview with Jonathan Davies
Name: Dr Jonathan Davies Current Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Scientific Discipline/Field: Psychiatric Epigenetics Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G, Q Website: https://www.epigenomicslab.com/ Twitter or other social media handle: @Jon_Davies27 What does your job involve? Mostly I am a laboratory based research scientist and I spend the majority of my time at work... Continue Reading →
An interview with Dagny Grzech
Name: Dagny Grzech Current Job: PhD student Scientific Discipline/Field: Biochemistry Country: Germany Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): Q, T, NB Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5575-2582 Twitter or other social media handle: @grzechnydag What does your job involve? I work on elucidation of biosynthetic alkaloid pathways in medicinal plants. My work involves a lot of metabolomics and transcriptomics, as... Continue Reading →
