There’s links here to all the engineers in all the zones of I’m an Engineer.
Each column can be reordered (click on the title). Or you can always use CTRL-F to search for a particular engineer, topic or zone.
| Name | About me and my work | Zone name | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sujai Kumar | I look for interesting patterns in DNA sequences of many different species of animals, plants, fungi. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Seanna McTaggart | It is my job to make sure that projects outcomes are delivered on time and on budget. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Sam Rowe | I work with scientists at the Earlham Institute to help them tell stories about all the amazing work they do. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Sally Warring | I study protists, microscopic single celled eukaryotes that live all around us. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Sahr Mian | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Richard Wright | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Removed Expert | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Rebecca Yahr | I work on lichens - those gorgeous little ecosystems-you-can-hold-in-your-hand - at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. I study and teach about how they change over time, how they get around, and how to protect them. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Piotr Cuber | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Peter Mulhair | I look at genomes to understand how animals have evolved | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Peter Holland | My work is teaching and research. I teach University students about animal evolution, and I run a research group doing research into how evolution works - from mutations in DNA to diversity of animals. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Peter Bickerton | I write stories about the wonderful science that goes on at the Earlham Institute. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Patrick Adkins | I collect marine species and send them off to Sanger to have their genome sequenced. I work at the Marine Biological Association | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Owen Lewis | I work at the University of Oxford where I study the ecology of plants and animals and teach BiologyĀ to undergraduate students | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Neil Hall | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Neil Bell | I study mosses and liverworts - those tiny green plants you see growing on tops of walls, on trees and in many other places. I'm interested in how all the different types of mosses and liverworts have evolved. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Jack Monaghan | My work involves bringing people together to share ideas about the science we do – whether that’s students, scientists, nature enthusiasts or just people walking past on the street. Science is better with more people involved. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Michelle Grey | As research assistant within the Neil Hall group here in the department of Organisms and Ecosystems, I am assisting with projects relating to plant pathogens which infect our wheat and sugar beet crops, as well as assisting with nucleic purification in the DToL protist project. I spend most of my time working out the best method to extract DNA from plants, fungi and now protists! | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Michael Cunliffe | I work on the biology and ecology of marine microbial life, including bacteria, protists (microbial eukaryotes) and fungi. My interests include the complex mechanisms these organisms use to live in marine ecosystems. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Max Coleman | I work at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and try to make the world of plants and fungi inspiring and engaging for everyone, even those who think they don't care. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Marcela Uliano-Silva | assembling DNA puzzles | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Luke Lythgoe | I work in the communications team at the Tree of Life programme, based at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire. My job is to tell people about all the exciting work happening on the project. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Liz Cook | I work in an office (not the lab!) and help to co-ordinate getting samples to our lab team, track what is happening to each sample as the DNA sequence is “read” and report back to the scientists who provided the samples to us. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Liam Crowley | I find and identify insects at Wytham Woods for full genome sequencing. I study the unbelievable diversity of insect species and try to find out about their ecology, behaviour and evolution. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Lewis Stevens | I use computers and DNA sequences to understand how animal genomes evolve | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Laura Sivess | My work focuses on finding and collecting samples, mostly insects, for DNA barcoding and whole genome sequencing. You’d be most likely to find me outdoors on a field trip or at the Natural History Museum in London. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Kes Scott-Somme | I work as a research assistant at the Marine Biological Association, we are collecting lots of marine life in the UK, identifying it and getting a genome sequence for it, this is to help conservation and research. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Kerstin Howe | Using computing to make sense of genome sequence data. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Kieran Woof | Research Assistant - DToL (Fungi) | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Jonathan Threlfall | I help turn the genomes produced by the Darwin Tree of Life project into papers for other scientists to read. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Joanna Harley | I am a Marine Biology technician who specialises in microbiology and molecular biology | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Jamie McGowan | Decoding the genomes of weird microbes š¬š¦ | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Jack Sewell | My job is to make marine science accessible, interesting and understandable to everyone and to develop opportunities for scientists and non-scientists to engage with each other in a positive and meaningful way. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Inez Januszczak | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Ilia Leitch | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Ian Barnes | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Graeme Oatley | I work in the lab to get DNA out of a range of different species, make sure the quality is really good so that we can see what their genomes look like | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Gavin Broad | I help to look after one of the world's biggest collections of insects: 30 million insects at the Natural History Museum. My favourite insects are wasps, especially parasitic wasps, and I discover many new species of these. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Elena Arrigoni | I study the diversity of fungi by sequencing their DNA | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Dominic Phillips | As an Invertebrate Research assistant on the DToL project, I spend a lot of my time looking at insects and other invertebrates (marine and terrestrial). This includes collecting specimens in the field and assisting in their identification, preservation and preparation for DNA barcoding and whole genome sequencing. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Clementine Geeves | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Chris Fletcher | Darwin Tree of Life | ||
| Chiara Bortoluzzi | I look for interesting signatures in the DNA that can explain why species look like that and what we can do to make sure that they do not go extinct | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Brian Douglas | Darwin Tree of Life Coordinator at Kew (Plants and Fungi) | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Alice Minotto | I write a software called COPO | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Alexandra Davey | My role involves targeting science activities at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to solve important global issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, and communicating our science to the public and politicians. | Darwin Tree of Life | |
| Zoe Bell | I’m a PhD student at Teesside University based at the National Horizons Centre in Darlington. I’m studying to be a Dr of Microbiology. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Thierry Ngako | I work at Azenta Life Sciences and I am responsible for the technical delivery of big projects such as the fight against Covid-19. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Sophie Hall | Being a food scientist is like being a food detective! I get to discover tasty secrets in the kitchen and make sure our favorite breakfast cereals are super delicious and safe to eat. It’s a mix of yummy experiments and keeping everyone’s taste buds happy! šš¬ | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Sophie Gray | I work in a lab organising human specimens (cadavers) to be used for teaching sessions. These sessions are important for future doctors to learn about the body. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Ryan Durnall | I maintain and fix fighter jets for the Royal Air Force. I am responsible for all of the mechanical systems on the Typhoon aircraft. This includes the engines, fuel systems, hydraulics, wheels, brakes, environmental control systems and flying controls to name a few. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Ruth Daniels | I work as a technical project manager in chemical research. I look after a group of chemists that are doing experiments in a chemistry laboratory. At the moment, I’m helping our chemists to make very big molecules that are called polymers. They look a bit like plastic when they are dry. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Ruth Augarde | I am a mechanical engineer at an engineering consultancy firm. I mainly work in the Energy industry. I help solve science and engineering problems for nuclear power plants and wind turbines. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Roy Bearpark | I work as a Tree Surveyor. I travel all over to measure and map trees to help people understand them better. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Rebecca Bennion | I work in a museum in the Yorkshire Dales – cataloguing and researching the collections, and designing exhibitions. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Penny Timpert | I make sure people get safe medicines that help them get better and work all over the world. I studied “Chemistry with Computer Science” at Uni, then later I studied “Polymer Science and Technology with Medical Applications”. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Paula McMahon | I am a Civil Engineer who helps looks after an important road where I live. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Olivia McCready | Life Centre 2024 | ||
| Nicholas Shipley | Chief Technician in the Royal Air Force as an Aircraft Engineer. I also enjoy supporting students at different events as a STEM Ambassador. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Nichola Peaker | Life Centre 2024 | ||
| Neil Robinson | Life Centre 2024 | ||
| Naomi Foster | I work in the North Pennines National Landscape and UNESCO Global Geopark. Most of my work is running activities for school groups and families to explore the geology and other stuff in the area. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| megansanders | Life Centre 2024 | ||
| Mark Child | I am the project manager of the Great Northumberland Forest, which is a project to increase tree cover across the county. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Luke Chambers | For my job I look at how AI (computers that can decide to do things by themselves) works in law. I also spend lots of time looking at police surveillance tech, spaceships and submarines to understand how they work and keep track of each little piece to make sure it’s all safe and legal. It’s my job to know lots of the laws around technology. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Katie Menear | Life Centre 2024 | ||
| Katie Knowles | I’m a PhD student at Northumbria University in Newcastle. I spend my time researching all about the atmospheres of the largest planets in our Solar System – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. I use the largest telescopes on Earth and in space to look at the Giant Planets and study them. As part of my PhD, I have been to lots of cool places like Hawaii, Japan, Texas, Switzerland, and more! | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Jessica McCoy | I look at tiny fossils from millions of years ago. These fossils could be algae, pollen, or fungi, which I can observe through a microscope, and they tell me what past environments were like. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Jenny Search | It’s my job to make sure that everyone and everything is ready so that school pupils coming to visit Life have a fabulous time and that your teachers are happy that you are also learning about real science. We also work with community groups and charities to make sure that our activities are inclusive for as many people as possible. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Jed Atkinson | I work in a museum and Iām also a geoscience communicator (which is just a fancy way of saying I teach people about rocks, fossils and the earth). | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Jane Locklan | Life Centre 2024 | ||
| Jake Morton | I work at Life Science Centre! Most days I run exciting science workshops for schools. My favourite bit of science is palaeontology (which is all about rocks, fossils and dinosaurs). You can ask me about that, about working in a science centre, or anything else you like! | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Henry Lavery | I am currently a Ph2 instructor at MOD St Athan in South Wales. My daily job is to teach recruits electrical principals to enable them to pass exams and become a certified electrician. I volunteer to do this job role to allow them to do the same job as I can do within the wider RAF. I have worked in many different locations such as, Lossiemouth, Cyprus, Falklands, Marham and now MOD St Athan. Each job comes with different challenges. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Frazer Christie | I work at Airbus office in Newcastle as an ‘Earth Observation Scientist’. ‘Earth Observation’ is a term used to describe the study of Earth from space, using photographs taken by satellites as high up as 36,000 km (or 22,200 miles)! Have a look at the photos in my Bio to see some examples of the satellite photographs I use in my work … do you recognize any of the places shown?? | Life Centre 2024 | |
| estherredhouse | Life Centre 2024 | ||
| Emily Noble | As an explainer in the science centre I perform science shows (which sometimes involves setting people on fire) and do planetarium shows all about the stars. I also do workshops for school groups when they come to visit! | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Eleanor Dean | I work as a site engineer offshore in Senegal (West Africa) – this means I provide initial engineering support for anything that occurs and I keep an oversight on any risks we may have on the plant. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| David Morrison | I am currently based at RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria. On a daily basis I work on the SA6 surface to air missile system. I repair, maintain and operate this equipment alongside a team of Engineers. We help train RAF pilots and our NATO friends. I have travelled extensively and been to Afghanistan, aswell as the Falkland Islands several times. Last year we deployed 2 tanks to Sweden for Exercise Arctic Challenge, alongside many different nations. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Dan Armstrong | Life Centre 2024 | ||
| Clementine Pons | I am a peatland support office in the North Pennines where I help our team restore our peatlands. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Christian Daniell | I set up activities for schools to come and learn about science with the Centre for Life. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Chloe Trotter | I work as a science communicator, meaning that I help people to understand all types of science. I do this via my writing, performing on stage or online and in workshops. Ask me any science questions (maybe about the body, plants and animals) | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Chloe McGeorge | I am a research Physicist for Tracerco which is based in Billingham, near Middlesbrough. We create tools that use radiation to measure things that are very difficult to measure! | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Charlotte Smith | Right now I work at the centre for life, which is a science museum with a large focus on space. I work with lots of different people everyday and get to see people getting excited about science. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Lauren McNaughton | I’m one of the Schools and Communities Leads at Life Science Centre. I run exciting science workshops for school groups. I also create fun activities for our science clubs. | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Blake Kesic | As a science explainer I am responsible for helping deliver all the fun shows in the science theater and planetarium. Whilst as a PhD researcher in Forensic Science I spend time using science to help solve crimes! | Life Centre 2024 | |
| Yong Chen Goh | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Victoria Levy | I’m currently working on a project to develop new technology to send into Space! | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Victoria Bemmer | I use enzymes (chemical scissors) to breakdown plastics and make them easier to recycle and reuse. I use microscopes to look at how the enzymes change the plastic. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Trish O'Connell | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Tom Louth | I design scientific instruments for astronomy, measuring light from the faintest stars and galaxies ever seen. I used to design toothbrushes, deodorant cans and electric cars. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Suzy Whoriskey | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Stefan Bon | My work is a combi of scientific research with my amazing team Bonlab (https://bonlab.info), where we collaborate with a range of industries, and teaching polymer and colloid science from a chemical engineering perspective. š³ļøāš šŖšŗ š³š±šØš³ | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Stacy Kim | I’m an astrophysicist at the University of Surrey.Ā I simulate the smallest galaxies in the universe inside supercomputers to try and figure out what dark matter is! | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Sean Kealey-Bennett | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Sam Coote | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Richard Thompson | I am Professor of Marine Biology and Director of he University of Plymouth’s Marine Institute. I lead a research team that is at the forefront of microplastics research. Our work looks at how widely microplastics are distributed and what harm they are causing animals and ecosystems. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Polly Keen | I create and develop ways to make paper bottles to replace plastic bottles. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Orla McManamly | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Norma Bargary | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Miray Yasar | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Mike Heyns | My work focuses on protecting us from solar storms. To do this, we develop simulations of our space environment that can give us warning in advance. Check out the videos in the dropdown below to see more! | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Martina Rimmele | I am designing new materials and working on their preparation for the use in solar cells and batteries. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Mark McGrady | I work in a plant which produces polymer pellets for processing into film, either at our own production facility or by external customers.Ā I am responsible for assisting the plant technical manager with new product developments, and also look after quality on the plant. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Maja Popovic | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Magdalena Hudek | My research is focused on developing a new type of antimicrobial food packaging made out of langoustine shells. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Lan Yang | I analyse data and present the results using scientific methods and visualised tools. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Kieran O'Sullivan | I use computers to do calculations on big plastic car parts during the early design stages. This means we can tell whether a bumper will be able to protect a pedestrian’s knee joint during a pedestrian impact event, through computer simulation without needing to wait or pay to have parts available to do testing before. We can also simulate other load-cases like sunloading and Firmness Feel. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Kate Goodfellow | I work for Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL), which is owned by Mondelez International. I am a laboratory manager for our Physical Sciences Food R&D team. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Karina de Almeida LIns | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Justin Perry | I like using my wide knowledge of chemistry in interesting ways so over the years I have worked with biologists, physicists, computer scientists, art historians, industrial designers, engineers of all types and business people to discover new things. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| John Butler | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Joe Shreeves | As a mechanical engineer, I design, analyse and test space hardware. I work on it from initial concept through to launch. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Jessica Irving | I use distant quakes to learn more about the centre of Earth and Mars. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Jennifer Loftus | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Jasmine Bone | I’m a research fellow at the University of Surrey, looking into the ageing and environmental degradation of polymer composite materials. (These are used all sorts from structures like ships, turbine blades, in spacecraft, to use in pipes and gas storage containers). | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Jack Reid | I study the Sun, and how its atmosphere is heated: it reaches millions of degrees! My work looks at how avalanches cause the heating. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Hugh Birkmyre | I take things invented in a lab and find ways to scale them up to make on a chemical factory. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Harry Dodge | I work with customers to make the composite component they want, whether its a high-speed police boat or a flying taxi prototype! | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Harold Berjamin | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Francisco Roldan Sanchez | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Francis Batchelor | My work produces thin plastic films, like you might find on food packaging and phone & TV screens. My focus is on the area where after the film is made, and then it needs to be wound up into a big roll to be transported, like a giant toilet roll. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Esther Ambrose-Dempster | My research looks at the breakdown of plastics using bacteria. We know there is a problem with the build up of plastic in the environment (in the oceans for example), and I’m trying to help solve some of this with my work in the lab. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Emma O'Mahony | I work in pensions as an actuary. This means I work for the people that look after the money needed to pay employees pensions once they retire from work. I help them invest the money, make sure the pension amounts are correct and look after all the paperwork related to doing this, including making sure all the rules are followed. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Emma Govan | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Emma Daniels | I make plastic (polymers) from sugars and turn them into materials that can be used in healthcare devices or in batteries! | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Emma Barrett | I am an applied behavioural scientist, researching extreme behaviour. Together with colleagues, I research how people survive and thrive in extreme situations. Our research is used by NASA and the European Space Agency for the selection, training and mission support of astronauts. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Darren Yau | I’m a mechanical engineer working in the space industry.Ā I design things to go into space. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Daniel McAleese | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Dan Day | I currently work on the CHAMPION project (Home | Champion Project (champion-project.eu))Ā where we are trying to make recyclable and biodegradable plastics from natural sources. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Claire Guimond | I study distant planets around other stars. I want to know if these planets could be like Earth. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Claire Bergin | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Christopher Chen | I study space using data from spacecraft toĀ learn new things about the Sun and its effects through the solar system. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Christina Picken | I work making polymers which are degradable for shampoos! | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Chloe Loveless | I’m a Senior Experimental Officer for the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub, which is a super fancy way of saying ‘lab manager’. I look after labs making sure that the people are safe and the equipment is working. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Chiaki Crews | Testing image sensors (the part of cameras that responds to light!) under their expected environment in space – for example, the effect of bombarding them with radiation! | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Catherine Regan | I study the planetary induced magnetosphere of Mars and the effect of global dust storms using data from the Mars Express satellite. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Bernhard Schmidt | In our research, my team and me work on materials for medicine and biotechnology. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Ben Dryer | I am interested in the effects of the space environment on camera sensors. I make sure that other scientists understand the damage to their instruments which occurs over time, and how to correct their data to get the best possible images and therefore science. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| asma slaimi | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Aoife OBrien | Academy October Zone | October 2022 | |
| Alex Hall | My field of research is cosmology – the study of the whole Universe. I am interested in dark matter – a mysterious invisible substance that seems to fill much of the Universe. I use data from big telescopes to learn about dark matter and the physics of our Universe. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Alessio Spampinato | I am a Higher Engineer at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). I work on the design, analysis, build and test of science instruments that will be one day launched into space. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Aisha Bibi | I am working on MONPLAS, a Horizon 2020 project that is funded by the European Union under the Marie SkÅodowska-Curie action. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Aditya Mandrekar | I am a software systems engineer – Systems engineers ensure that the specifications for a project are correct and that the parts of the project meet the specifications. I do this for the software part of satellites. | Academy October Zone | October 2022 |
| Steven Thomas | I design medical devices for use in operations on people all around the world. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Sophie Stephens | In my role as a PhD student I am in the department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction. I investigate how gynecological (female reproductive system) cancers form and risk factors that increase the risk of gynecological cancer development. As a lead Biomedical Scientist I run a start up laboratory in a reproductive health clinic. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Sophie Shaw | I’m a clinical bioinformatician. This means I write computer code which takes a large amount of biological data from DNA and I convert it into a possible genetic diagnosis. This helps people with rare genetic diseases, and people with cancer. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Simon Anderson | I work as a cardiac physiologist in the NHS, spending my days looking after people who need heart tests. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Samuel Yui | I am a research scientist in an NHS hospital in London. I specialise in Microbiology where I work with bacteria, fungi and viruses. Most of my research is aimed at reducing transmission of diseases in the environment. I also work in clinical trials related to Microbiology. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Robbie Lynch | I am a QC Analyst with Abbott Laboratories. I test diagnostic products before we sell them to Medical Professionals around the world. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Rebecca Greer | I am a Trainee Genetic Counsellor on the NHS Scientist Training Programme (STP) š§¬ | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Paulo Fernandes | I am a researcher trying to find new cures for diseases.If some cells are not working well, I try to find ways to correct them by changing the DNA code inside them. (DNA is what makes us who we are and is inside the cells in our body) | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Oluwatosin Orababa | I do research on how to kill harmful bacteria. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Mona-Lisa Kwentoh | I am a consultant psychiatrist. I am involved in the care of people who experience difficulties with their mental health | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Millie Karega | My work involves assessing whether a medication or medical device is doing what it was intended to do in human participants (who are either patients or healthy volunteers) whilst monitoring the safety and well-being of the participants. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Marie Chion | I am a researcher in biostatistics. š In very short, I make biological š§¬ and medical š©ŗ data speak. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Lynne Benton | I worked for 20 years as a Biomedical Scientist in a variety of haematology and transfusion laboratories. The role involved analysing blood samples, reporting on blood cell microscopy and matching blood donated to patient recipients who needed a blood transfusion. My current role works with service managers for all imaging, pathology, healthcare science and endoscopy departments to understand how best to use existing funding to better staff departments and to find ways to work more efficiently for the NHS. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Lydia Davidson | I am a physicist who worked in a hospital to look after X-ray machines to make sure they are safe for use. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Luke Hughes | I’m a biomedical scientist who works in the hospital laboratory where all the tests to help the doctors decide on how to help the patients are done. My role as one of the managers is to looks after all the pathology training needs across the health board. Which means i don’t tests many samples any more, but i oversee the training in the departments and make sure everyone has the opportunity to learn. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Lena Forsyth | I am a Biomedical Scientist working in the Immunology lab at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Testing patient samples to help diagnosis and monitor diseases. I have also worked with a STEM outreach organisation Techfest for 5 years, teaching science to kids. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Kip Heath | I\’m a healthcare scientist in the NHS – this means I help patients by working out what is making them sick. In the evenings I tell science related jokes on stage! | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Jane Moore-Taylor | Principal Clinical Scientist in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, NW London. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Jamie Nash | I research into blood products, and try to make them better for when a patient receives them. For example, I work on platelets, cells which stop you bleeding when you cut yourself. My work aims to make them better for patients who are bleeding lots after a serious accident. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Ian Fletcher | I am a cyber security specialist working in the NHS, and my role is to help NHS organisations, such as hospitals, improve their cybersecurity. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Heidi Barnard | I’m Head of Sustainability for NHS Supply Chain, we buy goods on behalf of the NHS. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Hasinah Mohammed | I am a Project Engineer. I design and build systems used in the manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Hannah Scholes | I work in the hospital laboratories and help doctors and nurses understand why people are ill, and how to make them feel better. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Fran Biggin | I’m a data scientist working in health research. I analyse NHS data to help improve the way health care is provided. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Eleni Bakola | Clinical scientist in radiotherapy. Radiotherapy is a treatment for cancer that uses ionising radiation. As a clinical scientist i use my physics knowledge and training in order to make sure that we deliver safe and secure treatment to our patients | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Eleanor Hickman | I am a trainee clinical scientist on the NHS Scientist Training Programme. I am specialising in Clinical Immunology so during the day I work in a hospital clinical immunology lab where we test patient samples to investigate potential disorders of their immune systems. I am also completing a part-time MSc as part of the programme in Clinical Science. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Edward Guy | I am a Clinical Scientist in the NHS. I diagnose infectious diseases and advise on the best treatment for patients. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Dorota Ferguson | Clinical Scientist working in Nuclear Medicine Field. Use of radiation for the diagnosis and treatment. Control of radioactive substances to protect people and the environment I investigate and introduce methods of creating pictures of human body using radioactive substances. I test imaging equipment and set it up for the use, and then analyse the pictures. I keep an eye on the radioactive substances used in the department to make sure they are stored securely and do not fall into the wrong hands. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Debbie Noble | I’m a scientist at LifeScan Scotland, who manufacture blood glucose test strips for diabetics. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Dawn Sutherland | Iām a Specialist Biomedical Scientist and work in a hospital Pathology Department. I prepare cytology and biopsy samples from patients to help doctors find out why people are unwell. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Evelyn Brunsdon | For my job, I go to places around the world where there are diseases and speak to people who are sick, their family members, and health workers. I then try to understand what needs to be done to prevent more people getting sick. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Clare Morrow | I started as a scientist testing blood, and other body fluids to help doctors understand what is making you poorly. Now I support quality and training of the staff we have. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Chigozie Onuba | My work as a Biomedical Scientist involves diagnosis and treatment of a patient condition through analysis of body fluids and specimens. Monitoring the effectiveness of patients treatment as well as research work and academia. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Cheryl Williams | I am an Advanced Biomedical Scientist for the NHS testing patient samples, currently overseeing serological diagnostics for blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis and measles. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Charlotte Ritson | My job is to help with the running of clinical trials, working on tests to get new medications available for people who need them. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Caroline Addey | I work for the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), helping to shape policies and bring people together to make medicines safe and improve public health. My a previous career in scientific and medical research helps to inform the work I do. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Bruno Silvester Lopes | I am a scientist who studies germs which are so small that they can only be seen with a microscope. Occasionally, We need to take medicines if we fall sick and sometimes harmful bugs can make us very unwell. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Blair Johnston | My job is to make sure people are safe when they need an MRI scan and to make sure the pictures the MRI scanners make look as good as they can. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Anne Lockhart | Academy July Zone | June 2023 | |
| Andrew Colman | Medical doctor, software engineer, and inventor interested in developing novel software and medical devices for improving the health and wellbeing of patients. I have two research degrees in a subject in which I don’t have a first degree! | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Amy Tooke | I study the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, that becomes the superbug MRSA. In my PhD I looked at how we can treat it with different antibiotics and now I am studying how it combats other bacteria that live on us! | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Aisha Ahmad | I work as a Biomedical Scientist in a lab, testing patient blood samples and making sure patients can have life-saving blood during surgery and treatment. | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Abi Attwell | During my work as a Clinical Engineer I have worked in different areas; from giving young people talking computers to help them communicate, to helping the hospital decide on the new heart rate machine to buy, to designing and 3D printing a machine to check that x-ray machines are working, to helping teams that make medical devices to keep following to law! | Academy July Zone | June 2023 |
| Yumi Stow | I am a process engineer, that means I work with chemicals and design processes that change raw materials into useful products. I work in the energy sector, primarily oil and gas, and hydrogen. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Will Ingram | I work as an engineer for a company called Ceres. We make fuel cells and electrolysers, which are a renewable technology similar to batteries or solar panels, that we use to make green energy and green hydrogen respectively. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Wasseem Emam | I’m an aquatic ecologist working on advancing the welfare of aquatic animals used in the food sector (fisheries & aquaculture).Ā I run a research organisation called Ethical Seafood Research that carries out research and training projects in Africa showing fish farmers the benefits of looking after their fish. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Walter Bodmer | I now mainly study how cancers different genetically from normal cells and develop new approaches to the treatment of cancers using the body’s immune system to attack cancer instead of viruses and other infections. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Victoria Ashley-Wheeler | I look at bacterial DNA in mud from the sea floor. I then feed this into a machine learning algorithm which can tell me how healthy the seabed is. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Tetrienne Kerswell-Box | I give marine nature conservation advice to Government and offshore industries such as oil and gas, Decommissioning, renewable and subsea cabling industries. Specially on marine protected areas and protected habitats and species. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Tanya Riley | I study Shetland’s marine habitats, assessing their interaction with marine activities, and use surveys and computer modelling to aid conservation. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Stephanie Horn | I am a researcher at the University of Stirling. My main research focus is aquaculture. I am currently working on a project which aims to improve the sustainability of aquaculture farms across Europe. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Sophie Smith | My research is regarding the harbour porpoise species (small toothed whale) around Shetland to develop and manage conservation strategies to help protect the species. Office days: reading, writing, data sorting and analysing. Field work days: A lot of looking out at sea trying to spot porpoises, dolphins and whales! | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Sophie Shaw | I’m a clinical bioinformatician. This means I write computer code which takes a large amount of biological data from DNA and I convert it into a possible genetic diagnosis. This helps people with rare genetic diseases, and people with cancer. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Somdutta Ghosh | I am a research assistant in the pathological and microbial department at Sanger Institute. My work is to investigate the natural microbial growth in the lungs of ill patients suffering from cystic fibrosis disease. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Shanine Smith | I am PhD student working in the whisky industry. I am researching different ways to make whisky but with less water, which will be better for the environment. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Samantha Slater-Lewin | I look at exhibits for areas to sample for DNA and/or develop fingermarks and if found, use them to try and help solve crimes. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Rowanne Allon | I’m a trainee genetic counsellor in the NHS Northern Genetics Service. I’m currently in my second year of the Scientist Training Programme (STP) | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Rosie Spencer | I am a Senior Scientist at QIAGEN. I help to create tests for patients who may need specialist treatment on clinical trials. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Roberta Migale | I study the ovary trying to understand which genes and proteins are essential for its development and fertility. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Rhian Smith | I am a Sustainability Consultant at a small company called 3ADAPT with a strong interest in climate change and biodiversity. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Rebecca Shaw | I am currently a PhD student in conservation genomics (I look at the DNA of endangered mammals). | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Rachel Owen | I am researching how the expression of genes in Cow DNA is regulated, and how natural differences in DNA sequences of different animals affects this. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Polly Osborne | I’m an electrical engineer – I design electricity networks which use low-carbon energy sources and therefore reduce climate change. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Ping Zhang | I use computational and experimental approaches to study how certain genetic variation in a person’s genetic code can contribute to immune dysregulation and diseases. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Paula McMahon | I am a Civil Engineer who helps looks after an important road where I live. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Olly Bartlett | I teach students at university how the physical parts of the Earth work and also how to measure Earth’s environments from space. I also use this knowledge myself to research how the cold and mountainous places on Earth are changing. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Ollie Thomas | I am trying to make new batteries which are cheaper and more sustainable than the ones we use at the moment. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Octavia Brayley | I’m a scientist and I’m doing a PhD in Antarctic entomology (the study of insects) and climate change at the University of Birmingham and the British Antarctic Survey. I’ll be going to Antarctica next year for field work! | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Nikoleta Vavouraki | In my job, I use my computer and I try to help teams find cures for diseases that affect our brains.Ā Ā | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Naomi Lawes | My research looks at renewable fuels and I am trying to come up with sustainable ways to use captured CO2 that pollutes our atmosphere and turn it into something useful – a fuel. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Mukta Deobagkar | I am an immunologist working at the University of Oxford. I study B and T cells, hoping to understand how these respond to infections and vaccines. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Mimi Asogwa | As a microbiologist, I monitor the quality of bathing waters (microbial source tracking and antimicrobial resistance analysis of bacteria) across Scotland to ensure its safe for the public. I also carry out Antimicrobial tests to determine resistance/susceptibility of E. coli to a range of other clinically relevant antibiotics from water samples. This enables me to monitor resistant profiles of bacteria across various locations over time. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Michael Schubert | During the day, I write about science medicine and help make those things interesting and easy for everyone to understand. At night, I work on films and comic books, helping to create realistic monsters, magic, and superheroes! | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Michael C Macey | I research extreme environments on earth (salty, hot, exposed to high levels of sunlight) to try and understand how microbes survive at the limits of life. I do this to try and understand how/if life could survive on other planets and how we may be able to detect it if it is there. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Matt Shaw | I am a PhD student of genetics. I look at how fungi can evolve by re-arranging their genes. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Martin Minarik | I am a developmental biologist interested in embryos of various species of vertebrates. I currently study fish senses and how they develop in the embryos. My main focus is on how fish sense electric signals and water currents. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Martin Johnsson | I study the DNA of cows, pigs and chickens to understand them better and improve animal breeding. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Martina Conti | I’m a chemist who supports biochemistry research projects. My research interests are studying past environments and sea-level changes to help us understand how they will be affected in future with climate change | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Martha Mulongo | I study nematodes trying to understand their evolutionary trend and diversity | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Maria Garcia | I am the CEO and scientist at BindEthics Ltd | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Manuel Kober-Czerny | I am studying the next generation of solar cells to hopefully help with the energy problems of the world. For this, I explore a material called āperovskiteā. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Lucy Jones | In my job I look at ways to help protect plants from extreme weather conditions, such as drought. Caring for the environment is very important in my work and is an important thing we consider when designing new products. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Lucy Carver | I work as a Development Scientist for a global genetics company, bringing in new technologies to help personalise medical treatments for people | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Louisse Mirabueno | I travel around the world teaching scientists how they can use the Ensembl Genome Browser in their research. It’s like a Google but for your genome, so you can find out lots of information about genes in different animals, plants, bacteria and more! | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Laura Thomas-Walters | I work to change people’s behaviours in ways that are better for the environment. Right now my focus is on helping people understand the links between extreme weather and climate change. In the past I worked with lots of endangered animals. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Laura Lagares Ballantine | I work as a technical lead for a genetics lab, this means that I supervise our lab team to do tests on our samples and find out if somebody has a genetic abnormality. A lot of our samples come from babies that haven’t been born yet, so that we can make sure that they have the right care and support when they are born. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Kaye Eve-Rowe | I am a laboratory technician in the sample processing team for a research laboratory. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Karen Edwards | I am a “virtual” marine biologist who studies the impact ocean currents have biology from nutrients to phytoplankton and seaweed to fish. I currently work as a marine modeller for the Environment Agency working to protect our estuarine and coastal environments and to ensure that any discharges do not cause harm. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Kaila Wheatley | I am working on conserving a coral species – the pink sea fan, here in the UK and Europe. My project includes genetics, identifying life history traits and ocean dynamic modelling. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Justin Perry | I like using my wide knowledge of chemistry in interesting ways so over the years I have worked with biologists, physicists, computer scientists, art historians, industrial designers, engineers of all types and business people to discover new things. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Jessica Pimlott | I make big batteries to store electricity from renewable energies like wind and solar! This means we can use less fossil fuel. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Jonathan Teague | I am researcher at the University of Bristol and I look at coral health using colour and special camera’s that detects and measures colour. My research is a mix between Physics, Environmental Science, Marine Biology, Marine Technology and Optics. I also dabble in marine robotics and electronics. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Jonathan Allen | I am an engineer who helps design, run and fix nuclear power stations. I do this so that they can safely produce clean electricity by nuclear power instead of having to use fossil fuels. I work in an office and at the power stations with lots of other scientists. My work involves a lot of maths, science and technology. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Joaquin de Navascues | I am interested in how cells 'talk to each other and think' when they are building an organism or maintaining its shape, using fruit flies in my research. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Jess Davies | I work for a company that makes devices to study DNA anywhere: from the rainforest, to the arctic, research lab, hospital, and even to space! The technology was used a lot in the COVID pandemic too to understand the virus and how it spread. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Jenny Shepperson | Marine Biology lecturer at Bangor University. I write computer programs to help understand which types of fishing cause most harm to the environment, and which fish are a more environmentally friendly option to eat! | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| James Bron | I work on wild and farmed fish health, including diseases and parasites of fish. The purpose of my work is to improve the health and welfare of fish by reducing disease using medicines, vaccines and other methods. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Jake Norton | PhD student researching the impact of aquaculture on rural communities and workers. I focus on salmon farming and shrimp farming. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Jade Roberts | I work as a clinical laboratory supervisor and researcher in Scotland. We use advanced machines to look into the blood profiles of fish, which allows us to see how healthy or unhealthy they are. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Jack Whittle | I’m a consultant marine scientist, so I work on projects like offshore wind farms, port and harbour developments or undersea cables and research and investigate the potential environmental impacts. I’ve recently been researching if a proposed wind farm off the coast of the Shetland Islands will interfere with protected sites. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Iona Christie | I currently work in an antiviral unit, providing high-quality testing for HIV, HSV and HSV in NHS samples. My department provides International reference and surveillance activities for antiviral resistance including acting as a WHO-specialised HIV drug resistance laboratory. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Ian McKinley | I am a self-employed consultant specialising in radioactive waste but, due to the models that I use, have worked also on areas related to environmental threats such as pandemics and climate change | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Hazel Jeffery | I've always loved science and I'm now using project and communication skills to work in a science team which predicts how the climate will change in the future. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Hayley Free | I am a PhD student using computational tools to look for viral DNA within the DNA of frogs and toads, to help us understand virus and vertebrate interaction and evolution. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Georgia Brittain | I work on projects developing catalysts for various processes for Johnson Matthey. My current project is looking into the best catalyst for use in renewable fuels for eventual hydrogen transportation and storage applications. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Frederik Gibson | I support the Garnett group to deliver high throughput drug and CRISPR screens that let us find new ways of treating cancer and improving treatment of cancers we currently do not have good therapies for. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Femi Oluwole | Academy November Zone | November 2023 | |
| Emma Wade | I research how our genetics and environment impact us! | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Emily Kempin | I’m a Safety Officer at the University of Cambridge, in the Genetics department. I help academics and students figure out how to plan their experiments in the safest way possible. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Elston DSouza | I use look at the DNA of hundreds of thousands to find out why diseases happen, so that we can better treat patients who have them. I am a computational scientists, which means I do all of my work on computers! | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Eloise Greenwood | I have an BSc in Marine Biology and now I work at an infrastructure company in the sustainability team. My role covers all things environmental and social. I advise projects on how to build in the most sustainable way. This means reducing their carbon and minimising their impact on the environment and communities they work in. My company builds airports, motorways, solar panel farms, pumped hydro storage you name it we build it! | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Eleonora Roschi | I have been working in a research institute in Cambridge for the last two years: first as a scientist – researching DNA mutations in blindness, cancer and other diseases on Stem Cells -, and now as a Quality Officer. I make sure that the work that my colleagues do is correct, reproducible, and can be distributed to the world. I create systems and processes to help scientists do their jobs well! | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Debbie Guest | My research group uses stem cells from horses to develop new treatments for tendon injuries and to understand more about the genetic basis of bone fractures in Thoroughbred racehorses. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| David Clancy | I use fruit flies as models to test for life-extending genes which may be drug targets in humans. I’m also interested in how mitochondria might be involved in the ageing process | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Daniel Carcajona | My main job consists in enabling collaboration between the aquaculture commercial sector and research, engaging with academics, public funding bodies and the aquaculture sector to bring in all parties into collaborative research projects. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Cristina Steliana Mihailovici | My diverse roles include serving as a part-time Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, where I have the privilege of sharing knowledge and insights. Additionally, I am a valued member of the Marine Management Organization and collaborate closely with NW IFCA, particularly in the vital realm of marine environmental protection. I also contribute to the technical, scientific, and bylaws committee. Moreover, I am honored to serve as the Co-Chair of the LCR Gender Equality Panel, where I work to foster greater gender equality and inclusivity in our community. I am also teaching in Spanish, occasionally, at the Nautical Faculty of Barcelona. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Courtney Povey | I work as a research scientist in reproductive health. My aim is to help us understand more about pregnancy and to develop clinical tests that can help people have a healthy baby. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Constance Schere | I am a PhD candidate and study whether or not marine protected areas are an effective and sustainable biological conservation tool. I also work as a marine ornithological consultant, where I work to ensure offshore projects don’t have a negative impact on seabirds. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Clemence Fraslin | I study the genetics of fish. I am trying to understand what makes fish A grow faster or be more resistant to a disease than fish B. I work in a computer, analysis data collected on fish farms or in the lab by my colleagues. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Clare Johnson | I am a marine scientist. I investigate how water moves in the Atlantic Ocean, and how that moves around carbon and nutrients. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Clara Novo | I study how the DNA is folded inside the nucleus of the cells allows for different cell types to arise during embryo development. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Claire Argent | I work in marine conservation in Yorkshire. I help to protect the marine environment and ensure that developments are sustainable and donāt impact nature. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Christina Kriaridou | I analyze the genotypes of various fish and shellfish to determine which ones are the most suitable for breeding with the goal of making them larger and healthier. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Chris O'Callaghan | I research how our genes can affect our risk of getting diseases of arteries, such as heart attacks. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Chathuri Silva | I am an electrical engineer and I work in offshore wind, onshore wind and petrochemical projects. I help with designing wind farms. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Caroline Hyde | Iām a Cancer Biologist and Psychologist. My research looks at new treatment options for cancer and interventions to support and improve health and wellbeing in general. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Camilla Cassidy | I figured out why worms and snails in the mud at the bottom of the sea act differently during climate change, and why that matters! Now I’m a data analyst in air traffic control. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Bethan Hindle | Iām a lecturer, which means my work involves a mixture of teaching university students and scientific research. I’m interested in how plants and animals are affected by environmental change and how we can all collect data to help answer these questions. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Benedikte Ranum | Even though I work in science, I’m not actually a scientist (shhhā¦ don’t tell them that)! But I work with sharing scientific ideas and findings in a way that people can understand or turn into action. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Aya Rageh | I am a first-year PhD student at the University of Bristol. I study batteries to see how they fail over time. I do this with both lithium-ion and the new sodium-ion batteries. I also look into the old batteries’ effect on the environment once its time to replace them. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Avishikta Chakraborty | My current project tries to understand what genes modulate the differences that we observe in the two sexes. I use the model organism fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, to address these questions. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Ashley Hecklinger | My job as a marine biologist is to make sure that human activity in the ocean, such as building offshore wind farms, does not disturb the marine wildlife (fish, seabirds and dolphins) or the habitats that they live in. My day to day work is an office writing scientific reports. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Arlene Ditchfield | I teach the next generation of marine scientists, I enjoy sharing my passion for the sea. I am a researcher interested in bacteria and how they control the natural processes in the oceans. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Apple Chew | I'm working on how to improve genetic engineering in green microalgae. They look like small green blobs under the microscope, small but mighty because they are the future of food, biofuels and biopharmaceuticals. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Anu Shivalikanjli | I analyse very big genetic and genomic data from humans and mouse using computer-based methods to understand how genes function and which genes can cause specific behaviours or diseases. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Anuschka Miller | I love two things: people and the sea. Much of my life is trying to make them more compatible. I used to do research on climate gases but now focus on trying to make people care more about life in the ocean. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Anton Edwards | I try to understand how the sea works. Tides move water around, waves make danger for ships. The sea water supports life and it is a good place to farm fish. The sea is important for ships, wind farms, fishing and oil rigs, and it controls climate. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Anna Wilbrey-Clark | I’m a wet lab scientist (I work at the bench with the cells / chemicals). I work as part of a large international collaboration called the ‘Human Cell Atlas’ studying genes and cells. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Andrew Lyon | I work for the Environment Agency writing environmental guidance for industrial sites explaining how to reduce pollution and improve efficiency. My background is environmental regulation of sites like landfills, food factories, chemical plants and waste treatment sites. I have written guidance and developed training to help Environment Agency staff understand why odour and fly problems happen on these sites and what can be done to reduce or prevent them. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Andrew Houston | I have a PhD in forensic chemistry, and currently study methane in the atmosphere. During my undergraduate degree I worked with the European Space Agency to explore the use of lasers in measuring nitrogen levels on Mars. My PhD studies studied the affect of extreme heat (and fire) on pig bones. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Amy Stockwell | I’m a scientist who helps companies understand the environmental impact of their products. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Amina Moss | As an aquaculture nutritionist, I work to develop diets that meet the nutritional needs of fish and shrimp, which are raised in farms. Over 20 million people work in aquaculture and more than 50% of the seafood we eat is farmed, so it is important that we do it sustainably. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Ambre Chapuis | I worked in very different fields, from microbiome study, to making glowing fungi, to making mini organs in petri-dish of cows and sheep to now working on the immunology of shellfish. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Alistair Young | Using technology to monitor the River Wey, with Virtual and Augmented Reality to help explain the workings of a river and the impact of weather and climate. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Alison Woollard | I’m a genetics professor at the University of Oxford. I teach genetics to undergraduates and I do research on nematode worms, trying to figure out how they develop and age, and how they evolve. Because the worms’ genes are similar to our own, we can apply what we learn from worms to our own biology. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Alisha Dordi | I am a research assistant at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge. My job means I get to work with genetically modified cancer cells to find out which genes are needed for cancer to grow and cause disease (Hint: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing!) | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Alicia Jia | I’m a PhD student in my third year studying genetics and the immune system. I research how your genetics can influence how ill you get. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Alex Leide | My job is to break ceramics and understand why they break and how to make them stronger. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |
| Alana McNulty | I work as a decommissioning consultant in the nuclear industry. This means I work on technical projects to help clean up radioactive waste and work out how to take apart nuclear reactor stations. | Academy November Zone | November 2023 |