Tag: UK

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... Continue Reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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An interview with Bini Claringbold

Name: Bini Claringbold Current Job: PhD Student Scientific Discipline/Field: Organic synthesis, biochemistry, medicinal chemistry Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): B, P Twitter or other social media handle: @BiniClaringbold What does your job involve? My current research involves synthesising a series of different compounds (sequenced defined polymers) that can disrupt the protein-protein interactions of a... Continue Reading →

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An interview with Emily Harford

Name: Emily Harford Current Job: Principal Engineer in the Office of the Chief Engineer, UKAEA Scientific Discipline/Field: Nuclear Fusion Research/Engineering Governance Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): L Twitter or other social media handle: @GayRollerCEng What does your job involve? I make sure that the engineering that other engineers (and sometimes physicists) try... Continue Reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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