Crucible alumni

  1. Aidan Burton

    Aidan is an engineering Senior Research Associate in the Water Resources Group at Newcastle University. He is an active engineering communicator and debater and a member of a West African Drumming group.

  2. Alan Bloodworth

    Alan lectures in the School of Civil Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton. His research interests include bridges, tunnels, recycling of waste materials, and novel forms of structure and foundation.

  3. Alexander Orlov

    Alexander is a Chemist, Cambridge University. He has three MSc degrees in addition to a PhD. The main theme of his work is environmental protection, via engineering. He has previously worked as an intern at US Congress on several science and technology issues at the Legislative and Democratic Whip offices.

  4. Alina Andras

    Alina is a Research Associate, University of Newcastle, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle General Hospital. She also lectures part-time for the Open University and has enrolled on an MBA programme.

  5. Amer Diab

    Amer is a biochemist working on developing genomic tools for bio-monitoring of pollutants and their effects on fish health. He is based at the Institute of Aquaculture, Stirling University.

  6. Andrew Byde

    Andrew is a Royal Society Industry Fellowship at Southampton University's computer science department, researching market-based control and autonomous multi-agent systems.

  7. Andrew Challinor

    Andrew is a Research Fellow, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading. He is one of the founding members of the University of Reading Crops and Climate Group, looking at crop and climate modelling to answer key questions about food security. He has made contributions to national policy discussions on these issues.

  8. Andrew Wills

    Andrew is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at University College London and at the Royal Institution. He has a broad research background including materials research, software engineering, and physics within three countries, and is fascinated by magnetism - which he describes as the science of almost everything.

  9. Ann Light

    Ann is a visiting research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Queen Marys at The University of London. Ann is interested in understanding peoples experience with technology. Ann combines research, disseminating research findings though the web and designing new technologies within industry.

  10. Anthony Hirst

    Anthony is an Artificial Intelligence Lecturer, Open University - Department of ICT, Milton Keynes. Founder of the Robotics Outreach Group and editor of www.robofesta-uk.org and interested in developing links with science communicators from many disciplines.

  11. Autumn Rowan-Hull

    Autumn is based at the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on how the pancreas develops during vertebrate embryogenesis.

  12. Barry Gibb

    Barry is a researcher at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, studying how brain cells communicate. He is also a digital filmmaker and is interested in finding new approaches to science communication. Currently he is developing a project to try and create a new 'visual language for science'.

  13. Beth Perry

    Beth Perry

    Beth works as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF) at the University of Salford.

  14. Cait MacPhee

    Cait is a Nanotechnology Researcher, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University. Member of the Royal Society education committee and engaged with science communication issues. As an Australian, she can bring an international perspective into discussions regarding UK science issues.

  15. Carla Molteni

    Carla is a Physics Lecturer at Kings College London who is interested in condensed matter physics. Carla is proactive in promoting the role of women in physics.

  16. Caspar Hewett

    Caspar is a research associate at the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Caspars research interests include earth systems engineering and the impacts of human activity. Caspar has a commitment to the public engagement of science and is an active speaker and debater.

  17. Cathy Dolbear

    Cathy Dolbear

    Cathy is a senior research scientist at Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency, leading the GeoSemantics team in combining artificial intelligence techniques with geographic knowledge.

  18. Charlotte Allender

    Charlotte is a biologist looking at genetic diversity in crop plants and wild relatives. She is based at Warwick HRI, part of the University of Warwick.

  19. Cheryl Golding

    Cheryl is a Research Fellow, Human Appetite Research Unit, Biopsychology Group, University of Leeds. She has participated in road-shows for the public on nutrition and Colon Cancer Concern.

  20. Cheryl Miller

    Cheryl Miller

    Cheryl is a non-clinical lecturer in Dental Implantology and Biomaterials, in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine and Surgery, in the School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield.

  21. Christine Sprigg

    Christine is a Lecturer in Occupational Psychology, University of Sheffield. She has been involved in some research on call-centres which provoked media attention - interviewed on BBC radio 4, and 5, radio Sheffield and invited to appear on the regional news programme BBC Look North. Involved in art collaborations via The Wellcome Trust.

  22. Clare Davy

    Clare is an Investigator Scientist with the Medical Research Council. Clares expertise is virology and she is also involved in initiatives aimed at increasing interest and performance of school children in science.

  23. Colin Johnson

    Colin Johnson

    Colin is a Senior Lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent in Canterbury. His main research interest is in bioinformatics - the application of computational and mathematical ideas to tackle challenging problems in biology and medicine.

  24. Craig Childs

    Craig is a Research Fellow, Accessibility Research Group, University College London, working on pedestrian movement in street environments. He is interested in promoting engineering in schools.

  25. Daniel Ozanne

    Daniel is a Research Fellow studying alterations in gene expression patterning in diet-induced obesity using genomic technologies. The research forms part of a collaboration between the Rowett Research Institute, the University of Aberdeen and other academic and industrial research sites, known collectively as the Aberdeen Centre for Energy Regulation and Obesity (ACERO).

  26. Daniel Raymer

    Daniel is a geophysicist working in Cornwall for Vetco Gray, a subsidiary of Vetco International Ltd. His work involves the detection and analysis of microseismic activity in hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs. He is a co-founder and director of ResearchSEA Ltd.

  27. David Jenkins

    David works as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow at the University of York. David research in experimental Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics has a strong international collaborative element which has nurtured his global view of science. Outside his research he participates in outreach activities as well as having a personal interest in music and visual arts.

  28. David Rippin

    David works as an RC-UK Academic Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Hull. His research interests are focussed on the controls on the dynamics of glaciers and ice-sheets. He has teaching and science outreach experience and is interested in the potential of interdisciplinary research.

  29. David Skirvin

    David is a biologist using computer simulation models to investigate the relationship between plants and predators. He is based at Warwick HRI, a department of the University of Warwick.

  30. Denis O'Hora

    Denis is a Lecturer in Behaviour Analysis within the School of Psychology at The University of Ulster. Denis has contributed to the first MSc in Applied Behaviour and sits on the Committee of the Northern Ireland Branch of the British Psychological Society.

  31. Dr Alison Holt

    Dr Alison Holt

    Alison Holt is an ecologist by training, and has just begun a post-doctoral research position in the Catchment Science Centre at the University of Sheffield. She is also setting up a consultancy to deliver advice to public and private sector businesses on how to reduce the environmental and social impacts of their activities.

  32. Dr Anna Dempster

    Dr Anna Dempster

    Anna Dempster is a Lecturer in Management in the School of Management and Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London. She received her Ph.D. in Management from Cambridge University's Judge Business School and is currently researching how firms in the creative industries manage uncertainty and risk over time.

  33. Dr Bridgette Duncombe

    Dr Bridgette Duncombe

    Bridgette Duncombe has a degree in Chemistry with European Studies, and a DPhil.in Chemical Physics from Sussex University. She was a Science Engineering and Technology Ambassador in 2007 and acts as treasurer for the Edinburgh and SE Scotland section of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

  34. Dr Carlos Amador

    Dr Carlos Amador

    Carlos Amador works for Procter & Gamble in the Process Modelling and Simulation Group. He has a degree in chemical engineering from Salamanca University, and a PhD in multiphase flow in micro reactors from University College London.

  35. Dr Chrissie Rogers

    Dr Chrissie Rogers

    Chrissie Rogers is a sociologist and lecturer in education studies at Keele University. She is a member of the Life Course Studies Research Institute (Keele) and the AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality. Chrissie completed her PhD at the University of Essex and is interested in theories on disability, qualitative research, and different ways of ‘doing' sociology. 

  36. Dr Christine Leeming

    Dr Christine Leeming

    Christine Leeming has a degree from University of Durham and a PhD from the University of York. Her industrial career began at Mölnlycke Health Care, where she developed new technologies for use in the surgical glove industry. Christine now works at ColorMatrix Europe where she is involved in developing a range of innovative solutions to solve the challenges faced by the plastics industry.

  37. Dr Clare Fitzsimmons

    Dr Clare Fitzsimmons

    Clare Fitzsimmons completed a PhD at the physics/chemistry/environment interface in 1998 and in her post-doc years her growing addiction to SCUBA prompted her to combine her environmental, scientific and recreational interests, and branch out into marine research.

  38. Dr Elizabeth Blackburn

    Dr Elizabeth Blackburn

    Elizabeth Blackburn is a Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Birmingham. She has a degree from Cambridge University and a PhD from the Université Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble, France.  In 2006, Elizabeth received the Best Young Scientist of the Year Award from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

     

  39. Dr Gordon Barr

    Dr Gordon Barr

    Gordon Barr is a researcher in the Chemistry Department at the University of Glasgow, where he specialises in the development of methods and software that applies cluster analysis and other statistics to problems in crystallography and chemistry.

     

  40. Dr Ismael Rafols

    Dr Ismael Rafols

    Ismael Rafols is a Research Fellow at SPRU, Institute of Science and Technology Policy, at the University of Sussex. His research aims to help design policies that support environments fostering the cognitive diversity, necessary for creative and socially-relevant science. 

  41. Dr Jamie Harle

    Dr Jamie Harle

    Jamie Harle is a lecturer in physics at The Open University in Milton Keynes, and an honorary research fellow at the Department of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at UCL Eastman Dental Institute. He studied physics at Imperial College London, and an MSc and DPhil in medical physic at Oxford University.

  42. Dr Jenny Read

    Dr Jenny Read

    Jenny Read studied physics at University College, Oxford, before becoming fascinated by the emerging field of neuroscience. She completed a mathematical biology training fellowship at the Wellcome Trust and is now working on a Royal Society Research Fellowship using "3D" vision as a model of human perception. Her work was recently supported by a New Investigator Award from the Medical Research Council.

  43. Dr Jim Bown

    Dr Jim Bown

    Jim Bown has a PhD in individual-based modelling of complex ecosystems and is developing a computational model of the spread of hospital acquired infections and other healthcare-related problems. He is also leading a new type of research group that combines a broad mix of disciplines to address real-world problems, such as urban planning for sustainability.

     

  44. Dr Jonathan West

    Dr Jonathan West

    Jonathan West works at ISAS, the Institute of Analytical Sciences in Dortmund, in the area of miniaturisation - a topic which runs throughout the sciences and engineering fields. He is working on a diverse set of biology-orientated challenges, including stem cell systems for regenerative medicine.

  45. Dr Karen Johnson

    Dr Karen Johnson

    Karen Johnson is a lecturer in Civil Engineering at Durham University, she trained as a hydrogeologist, graduating with an MSc from University College London, and completed her PhD in mine water treatment with Professor Paul Younger at Newcastle University. Karen’s research has a strong emphasis on using ‘wastes’ as resources.

  46. Dr Karoline Wiesner

    Dr Karoline Wiesner

    Karoline Wiesner is a lecturer in the School of Mathematics and the Centre for Complexity Sciences at the University of Bristol. Her research interest is identifying levels of organisation, and building a theory of structural complexity in quantum systems. In 2007, Karoline won the Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research from the University of California Davis.

  47. Dr Matthew Molineux

    Dr Matthew Molineux

    Matthew Molineux joined Leeds Met at the start of March 2004 to develop the Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy group. His research interests include the occupational impact of chronic illness, occupational science, and occupation-based education and practice. 

  48. Dr Maxim Ryadnov

    Dr Maxim Ryadnov

    Maxim Ryadnov is a chemistry lecturer from the University of Leicester.
    His research aims to advance current understanding of the molecular integrity of biological systems. He has a particular interest in extracting rules that link the chemistry of biomolecules to their functional 3D expressions. His overall aim is to implement these expressions into nanosystems, to address unmet needs in biomedicine.

  49. Dr Melissa Grant

    Dr Melissa Grant

    After completing her PhD Melissa Grant held a postdoctoral position at the University of Birmingham School of Dentistry where she lead a project, sponsored by Unilever, to find novel chemicals for improving oral health. She has also become involved in teaching in the school and was a runner-up in the intra-university Big Idea’s Competition.

  50. Dr Muireann Quigley

    Dr Muireann Quigley

    Muireann Quigley is a lecturer in bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, and the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the School of Law, University of Manchester. Prior to this, she worked as a Research Fellow in bioethics and law. Her main teaching interests are in medical ethics.

     

  51. Dr Nick Collins

    Dr Nick Collins

    Nick Collins is a composer, digital musician, and lecturer in computer music at the University of Sussex. He is also first editor of the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music and a co-editor of The SuperCollider Book; SuperCollider is a powerful programming language for realtime audio and music.

     

  52. Dr Oliver de Peyer

    Dr Oliver de Peyer

    Oliver de Peyer is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Medical Research where his research topics have included Structural Biology, GM plants, and Astrobiology. Oliver has also worked as a Planetary Biology Intern at the NASA Ames Research Centre in California, and as a delegate to the 2001 Wellcome Trust seminar to develop Bioethics in the National Curriculum.   

  53. Dr Paul Piwek

    Dr Paul Piwek

    Paul Piwek is a lecturer at the Open University's Centre for Research in Computing. His main research interest is in automated information presentation. He is collaborating with colleagues at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo on a system that takes text and turns it into a dialogue between computer-animated characters.

  54. Dr Paul Shepherd

    Dr Paul Shepherd

    Paul Shepherd is a Research Fellow in the Architecture & Civil Engineering Department at the University of Bath. He previously worked as an analyst with the engineering company, Buro Happold, and on a wide variety of projects, including the Emirates Stadium for Arsenal FC in London and the new Irish National Stadium at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.

  55. Dr Rebecca Butler

    Dr Rebecca Butler

    Rebecca Butler has a degree in Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry from University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a synthetic chemistry PhD from the University of Nottingham. She has also carried out Post Doctoral research in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Prof. K. Barry Sharpless.

     

  56. Dr Rebecca Crallan

    Rebecca Crallan is a cell biologist and works as innovation manager for medical device company Smith & Nephew. Her work involves encouraging the next generation of new and exciting ideas for the business and nurturing early-stage concepts within the company’s research portfolio.

     

  57. Dr Richard Holland

    Dr Richard Holland

    Richard Holland has a PhD from Oxford and also studied at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His attempts to address the problems of navigation during migration have encompassed the fields of engineering, molecular biology, biochemistry, physics geophysics and atmospheric physics.

  58. Dr Stefan Maier

    Dr Stefan Maier

    Stefan Maier is a Reader in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. His research focuses on combining modern nanotechnology with photonics, in order to develop ways to control light waves over very small length scales, far below the resolution limit of conventional microscopes.

  59. Dr Tess Phillips

    Dr Tess Phillips

    Tess Phillips has a degree and PhD from Cambridge University, and is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester.  Her research interests include synthetic organic chemistry and its applications in drug discovery.

  60. Duncan Lockerby

    Duncan Lockerby

    Duncan's main research interest lies in computational fluid dynamics, and in particular, currently: turbulence control using novel passive actuation; microscale gas flows in and around micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS); and hypersonic aerothermodynamics.

  61. Duncan Simpson

    Duncan is the Interdisciplinary Research Network Manager at Cambridge University. Based in the Biological Physics Group of the Cavendish laboratory, his role is to encourage and support research collaborations and communications between physicists and biological scientists at Cambridge.

  62. Ed Marshall

    Ed is a Chemist, Imperial College, London. Long standing interest in the history of science and communication. Media experience with the BBC World Service and he has also participated in the VSO (Volunteers Service Overseas) programme.

  63. Euan Maggenis

    Euan Maggenis

    Euan is a formula designer specialising in granular laundry detergents.

  64. Fariba Bahrami

    Fariba is an Environmental Science Programme Manager, Synchrotron Radiation Dept, CCLRC, Daresbury, Warrington. Co-ordinator of the Daresbury Women in Science and Technology group. Her other interests include working with British Trust Conservation Volunteers.

  65. Gabriel Cavalli-Petraglia

    Gabriel is a Research Assistant, School of Chemistry, University of Southampton. Coming from Uruguay he is particularly interested in science and globalisation. He also takes a keen interest in the theatre.

  66. Gail Preston

    Gail is a Royal Society University Research Fellow working on plant diseases and plant growth-promoting microorganisms at the Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University.

  67. Gemma Satterthwaite

    Gemma is a Bioinformatics Team Leader in a R&D department in industry. Gemmas scientific background is Biochemistry and Cardiovascular medicine and she places a high value on good science teachers, so is committed to outreach work in local schools.

  68. Geoffrey Batt

    Geoffrey is a Senior Lecturer in Geology at the Royal Holloway University of London, and believes firmly in the engagement of society with scientific research. He is committed to exploring science, as an educator and as a parent.

  69. Glenn Burley

    Glenn Burley

    Glenn joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Leicester in 2006 and is interested in developing new methods of constructing molecular electronic and diagnostic devices using biological molecules as templates.

  70. Hannah Devine-Wright

    Hannah is an environmental psychologist whose most recent academic research addresses issues of social acceptance associated with renewable energy generation and transmission in the UK.

  71. Hayley Fowler

    Hayley is a researcher at the University of Newcastle specialising in extreme rainfall, climate variability and change, and flood and drought risk. She is participating in a European Framework 6 project on hydrology.

  72. Helena Seth-Smith

    Helena Seth-Smith

    Helena has taken her interest in bacterial genetics into the bigger world of bacterial genomics.

  73. Huda El Mubarek

    Huda is a RAE/EPSRC Research Fellow in the field of semi-conductors. Huda also uses poetry to communicate the intricacies of the world around her. She is a strong advocate and campaigner for women in science.

  74. Hugh Tuffen

    Hugh is a Volcanologist based at Lancaster University. Hugh enjoys inspiring amateur geologists and is also interested in music and a keen photographer.

  75. Iracema Leroi

    Iracema Leroi

    Iracema is currently working as a consultant in old age psychiatry in the North West with a special interest in the neuropsychiatry of neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer disease and Parkinson's disease (PD).

  76. Jason Reese

    Jason is the Weir Professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at Strathclyde University. He is a co-founder of the spin out company Brinker Technology Ltd, which is commercialising a leak detection system for pipelines.

  77. Jasper Graham-Jones

    Jasper is Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing Engineering at Portsmouth University.

  78. Jen Gristock

    Jen is a writer, scientist and policy specialist based at City University in London. Her work explores the ways in which communications across space, time and between communities encourage economic growth and social change. She is interested in creativity and the nature of technology, lay expertise and user-driven innovation.

  79. Jeremy Baumberg

    Jeremy holds the joint chair in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Electronics and Computer Science, at the University of Southampton and heading a new initiative on nanotechnology. He is also involved in a spin-off company in research into photonic crystals (Mesophotonics Ltd).

  80. Jeremy O'Brien

    Jeremy O'Brien

    Jeremy is a Reader in Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Bristol pursuing experimental quantum information science and technology.

  81. Jerry Wu

    Jerry is a Senior Research Scientist at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge. Has a wide research field consisting of electrical engineering, computer science, biology and bioinformatics. His voluntary work includes the Cambridge Science Festival and he has been a participant in The Royal Society MP-Scientist Pairing Scheme.

  82. Jill Stocks

    Jill holds a Daphne Jackson Fellowship at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at Manchester University. She is investigating the effect of environmental and genetic factors on semen quality.

  83. Joanna Ashbourn

    Joanna is a Research Fellows in Physics at Oxford. Outside of research Joanna is interested in the public understanding of science and is a Science and Engineering Ambassador as well as organising the annual Oxfordshire Science Writing Competition.

  84. Joanne Baker

    Joanne is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in Astrophysics, Oxford University. Participated in a BAAS Media Fellowship and the Royal Societys Scientist-MP pairing scheme. She has just completed a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture.

  85. Jon Copley

    Jon Copley

    Jon is a Lecturer in Marine Ecology in the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton.

  86. Jose Munoz

    Jose is a Bioengineer, ECLAT, Kings College, London. Wide understanding of issues surrounding science policy in relation to military applications. His interests include volunteering at the Brixton Refugees Council.

  87. Katherine Lewis

    Katherine holds a Royal Society Research Fellowship in the Anatomy Department at Cambridge University. Katherines public engagement activities range from being a member of SciTalk to competing in Famelab. Katherine is also interested in alternative healing and rites of passage.

  88. Katherine Smart

    Katherine is the Scottish Courage Reader in Brewing Science and an Enterprise Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. She is also the founder of Smart Brewing Services.

  89. Katrien Van

    Katrien is based at the Institute of Zoology as a Research Fellow investigating fish reproduction. Katrien has recently presented her research to a wide public audience via the exhibits Fish n Chips and Spermatology.

  90. Kehinde Ross

    Kehinde Ross

    Kehinde's interest lies in the computational analysis of biological networks. The focus of this work at present is on the spreading of cancer cells from the primary tumour to other parts of the body.

  91. Keith Davies

    Keith is a Senior Scientist at the Nematode Interactions Unit, Rothamsted. He is active in the science and society dialogue, and brings international experience to the group.

  92. Keith Matthews

    Keith Matthews

    Keith's primary research focus is on the development of deliberative inclusive processes to explore the sustainability of Scotland's farming systems.

  93. Kheng-Lim Goh

    Kheng-Lim has a background in medical physics and is currently working in a biological context. His work at Cardiff University uses X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy and mechanical testing to investigate the changes in tendons in the body caused by ageing.

  94. Laura James

    Laura James

    Laura is a dynamic technologist with varied and extensive experience of consumer electronics research and development, and a passionate interest in user-centric design and public understanding of technology.

  95. Lucie Green

    Lucie is a space scientist who has recently been awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship. Lucie is keen to develop her already well-established science communication skills through Crucible.

  96. Magdeline Pokar

    Magdeline is a Geophysicist by training and currently holds the posts of Managing Director for ResearchSEA Limited and online portal to connect research institutions and experts in Asia with international Journalists.

  97. Maggie Aderin

    Maggie is a Senior Project Manager, Sira Technology Ltd in Kent, working on a satellite detection system funded by the European Space Agency. She has also set up Science Innovation Ltd to promote public understanding of science.

  98. Mark Howard

    Mark Howard

    Mark enjoys communicating science to a wider audience and seeing how it contributes beyond what they expect.

  99. Mark New

    Mark is a lecturer in Physical Geography at Oxford University, with research interests in climate change and climate variability. Current research projects include analysis of trends in daily climate extremes, predictability of rainfall onset in southern Africa, land-surface/vegetation/climate interaction in Africa and Amazonia and uncertainties in climate change prediction.

  100. Mark Reeves

    Mark is a technical manager with Oxford Lasers Imaging Division (Didcot, Oxford). He is also director of Lothian Imaging Science Ltd (Edinburgh), which develops custom measurement equipment based on lasers, imaging devices and image processing software.

  101. Matt Cottingham

    Matt researches avian virology and its application to human vaccines at the Institute for Animal Health near Newbury.

  102. Michael Dales

    Michael Dales

    Michael Dales is a creative technologist and has over eight years of experience in R and D, both in industry and academia, focussing primarily on systems and networking.

  103. Michael Murray

    Michael is a civil engineer. He has worked on a wide range of numerical models and is interested in methods of modelling the effect of human activity on robust engineering models.

  104. Nathan Zaccai

    Nathan Zaccai

    Nathan is currently based in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Bristol, where he is developing a research programme on the molecular basis of ion channel activation.

  105. Neil Stokes

    Neil is a microbiologist working at Prolysis Ltd, a biotechnology company in Oxfordshire. His research focuses on the discovery and development of novel antibiotics.

  106. Nicola Englyst

    Nicola carries out research to better understand the mechanisms involved in controlling blood clotting in stroke as part of a Fellowship funded by Research into Ageing. She is based at the University of Southampton's Endocrinology and Metabolism Unit at Southampton General Hospital.

  107. Nicole Grobert

    Nicole is a Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. Nicola has acted as a communicator of nanotechnology in a number of different guises and looking forward to interaction with people from backgrounds other than scientists.

  108. Patricia Harkness

    Patricia is a Senior Researcher, Department of Pharmacology, University College London, working on molecular and cellular neuroscience. She has experience of work in an industrial research lab and has wide ranging interests in neuroscience and in promoting science communication. Contributes to UCLs Writing and Learning Mentors scheme.

  109. Paul Adderley

    Paul is a soil scientist based at the University of Stirling. His work considers the long-term sustainability of past and present-day agrarian societies through their interactions with the natural environment.

  110. Paul Andrews

    Paul is a cell Biologist at The Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee. Paul has a passion for art and enjoys collaborating with artists for educational and communication purposes. His own microscopy images have been exhibited as Sci-art and won critical acclaim.

  111. Paul Williams

    Paul Williams

    Paul is a university academic specializing in climate science at Reading University.

  112. Perdita Barran

    Perdita is a chemist using physics to solve biological problems. Her inter-disciplinary work at the University of Edinburgh investigates the structure of biologically relevant molecules using mass spectrometry techniques. These range in size from small model peptide systems to protein complexes.

  113. Peter Taylor

    Peter is a Research Scientist for Sharp Electronics in Oxford Science Park. He brings industry experience and has been involved in communicating this to young people via Open Industry events.

  114. Peter White

    Peter works as the interface of theory and policy in controlling infectious diseases, as a Coordinator for the UNAIDS/WHO Reference group ion Estimate, Modelling and Projections. Peter brings an international perspective and is also committed to sharing the benefits of education to youth groups.

  115. Philip Langley

    Philip is an EPSRC Research Fellow in the Medical Physics department at The University of Newcastle. Philip has a creative outlook and participated in a range of outreach activities.

  116. Phillip Cassey

    Phillip Cassey

    Phillip's PhD thesis developed statistical models for explaining the different traits that were associated with the historical transportation, introduction, and successful establishment of exotic and invasive bird species.

  117. Polly Dalton

    Polly Dalton

    Polly is a lecturer in cognitive psychology at Royal Holloway University of London. She is interested in human attention as it acts within and between the senses of vision, hearing and touch.

  118. Pragya Agarwal

    Pragya is a Lecturer in Geographic Information Science in the Department of Geomatic Engineering at University College London. Her research is aimed at finding better synchronicity between technology (especially ubiquitous and pervasive technology such as location-based services) and human perception and cognition.