Zone Archive
There’s links here to all the scientists in all the zones we’ve run since March 2010.
Each column can be reordered (click on the title). Or you can always use CTRL-F to search for a particular scientist, topic or zone.
| Name | Institute | About me and my work | Zone name | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Still | ND280 near detector of the T2K experiment | Trying to understand the birth of the visible Universe, using the tiniest things in Nature and the biggest experiments on Earth. | Subatomic Zone | |
| Jony Hudson | I’ve built a machine that measured the shape of the electron and showed that it’s very, very, very round. | Subatomic Zone | ||
| Peta Foster | Central Laser Facility | What you would do with the world’s highest intensity laser? Shoot stuff? Well that’s what i do, making extreme states of matter in the process.. | Zinc Zone | |
| Hayley Smith | ISIS | I joined STFC two years ago as an “accelerator physicist” – the main point of my job is to help operate the particle accelerators at ISIS! | Zinc Zone | |
| Andrew Cairns | ISIS Neutron Diffraction Facility | I am a crystallographer working on materials that break records for both expanding under high pressure (‘NLC’ effect) and shrinking when heated up (‘NTE’ effect), behaviour that is quite bizarre and very unusual. Through x-ray and neutron diffraction we ‘see’ inside the crystal to try to work out why these materials do what they do. | Zinc Zone | |
| Daniel Scully | The T2K Experiment | I’m a Particle Physicist studying Neutrinos: the weak but mysterious particles that may answer our biggest questions | Zinc Zone | |
| Katharine Schofield | I work at STFC’s headquarters in Swindon | In short, I give money out to scientists for their research. | Subatomic Zone | |
| Natalia Parzyk | ISIS user: MUSR and ARGUS, so far. | Short story about science which I’m involved.. | Zinc Zone | |
| Peter Williams | Daresbury Laboratory – Accelerator Science | I design particle accelerators, make computer models of them and also do experiments on real ones. | Subatomic Zone | |
| Mark Basham | Diamond Light Source | I write computer programs to analyse the data that other scientists collect from the Diamond Synchrotron | Subatomic Zone | |
| Sharon Sneddon | I make Embryonic Stem Cells that hopefully will be used to treat diseases like diabetes and cancer! | Lithium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Chris Cooper | I study blood and how it works (or sometimes doesn’t!) | Helium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Sarah Mount | I’m a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. Most of my research work is about finding new ways to make it easy to program computers. | Lithium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Paul Stevenson | I try to understand how protons and neutrons stick together to make the nuclei that make up almost all the mass of the visible universe. | Lithium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Duncan Murdock | I currently study tiny fossils, 300 million years older than the dinosaurs, to work out how the earliest skeletons grew. I am a PhD student at the University of Bristol. | Lithium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Kiran Meekings | I use maths to work out the market potential of cancer drugs (how much money they are going to make) | Lithium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Emily Cook | Look inside the body, or your luggage, with x-rays | Helium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Tamsin Gray | I live in the Antarctic and study the weather, which can be pretty extreme here… | Helium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Louise Buckley | I ask really hungry chickens what they want to eat… | Hydrogen Zone | March 2010 | |
| Pamela Docherty | I try to work out maths problems that have never been solved before. | Hydrogen Zone | March 2010 | |
| Nick Bradshaw | I work on a set of proteins which, if faulty, can “cause” schizophrenia. I am trying to work out how these proteins work and how we might be able to fix them. | Brain Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Katy Milne | I inspect jet engines to make sure that they are safe. | Hydrogen Zone | March 2010 | |
| Freya Harrison | I’m an evolutionary biologist: I try to explain why cooperative behaviours are so common in nature. | Hydrogen Zone | March 2010 | |
| Helen Vaughan | Plastics lightbulbs? TOPLESS Science??? | Hydrogen Zone | March 2010 | |
| Martin Coath | I am a computational neuroscientist. This just means that I am interested in how brains work and how they learn, but I study this with computer models and simulations rather than with real brains! | Helium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Natalie Stanford | I make computerised versions of cells. | Helium Zone | March 2010 | |
| Daniel Mietchen | Since 2007: University of Jena. | I analyze brain scans to detect structural changes over time or between groups, with a focus on schizophrenia and evolution: What is the relation between the size and folding of a brain? | Beryllium Zone | March 2010 |
| Chris Needham | I’m a computer scientist interested in modelling biology. | Genes Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Derek Mann | Newcastle University | I am trying to find a cure for liver disease which is now one of the major causes of death . Here are some useful websites for interest: | Beryllium Zone | March 2010 |
| Ian Sillett | Home Office Scientific Development Branch 2008-present | I provide scientific support and advice to law enforcement and counter terrorism agencies for the UK Home Office, specifically in the area of automated cctv analysis. | Beryllium Zone | March 2010 |
| Mariana Vargas | My work is about how we store and retrieve memories in our brains. | Brain Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Philip Wadler | University of Edinburgh | I design programming languages—it’s like inventing new ways to think! | Beryllium Zone | March 2010 |
| Kay Penicud | I’m a PhD student working on why cells don’t always repair damaged DNA properly and how this can lead to cancer. | Genes Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Upul Wijayantha | Loughborough University | I’m working on clean renewable energy | Beryllium Zone | March 2010 |
| Olivia Hibbitt | Gene therapy for high cholesterol; vectors, delivery is it going to help people? | Genes Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Anne Seawright | I do research into veterinary behaviour. | Brain Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Joseph Devlin | I’m a neuroscientist with an interest in language and my work aims to answer the question: What is special about human brains that allows us to use language when no other species can? | Brain Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Lorna Houlihan | Finding genes that change our brain as we get older! | Genes Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Carolyn McGettigan | I research what’s going on inside people’s brains when they listen to speech and produce it. | Brain Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Kerstin Zechner | Hi, I’m Kerstin and I look at how genes, which are encoded in DNA, are copied into another molecule known as RNA and how this process in kept under control in worms. | Genes Zone Archived March 2010 | March 2010 | |
| Betul Arslan | Georgia Institute of Technology NASA Astrobiology Institute Center for Ribosome and Evolution | Rewinding and replaying the tape of life through resurrected molecules. | Evolution Zone | June 2010 |
| Bridget Waller | University of Portsmouth | I try to understand how and why facial expression evolved | Evolution Zone | June 2010 |
| Yvette Wilson | University of Dundee | I am identifying the genes that cause lignin synthesis in cereal stems so that we can breed barley varieties that have straw that is easier for animals to digest. | Genes Zone | June 2010 |
| Sian Harding | Imperial College | I’m interested in the beating muscle cells (myocytes) of the heart and what happens to them in heart failure | Genes Zone | June 2010 |
| Louise Johnson | University of Reading | I work on the 99% of your DNA that *isn’t* your genes | Genes Zone | June 2010 |
| Michaela Livingstone | University of Sheffield – Wilson group. | Hey, I’m Michaela, I’m a 23 year old PhD student at the University of Sheffield, trying to work out how genes get switched on and off. | Genes Zone | June 2010 |
| Steven Kiddle | Warwick University (MSc + PhD in Systems Biology) 2007- | Hi, im Steve and I study how plants defend themselves from disease using their genes | Genes Zone | June 2010 |
| Ceri Thomas | I am currently doing a PhD at the University of Bristol | I’m a palaeontologist, looking at the oldest animal embryos on the planet and wondering how on earth they became fossilised! | Evolution Zone | June 2010 |
| Darren Nesbeth | University College London | Re-designing cells to be mini-factories. | Drugs Zone | June 2010 |
| Tom Hartley | University of York | I investigate how the brain senses, understands, learns, remembers, thinks, and controls our actions and I teach university students about these topics. | Imaging Zone | June 2010 |
| Deuan Jones | University of Dundee | I try and find ways of killing parasites that cause disease in poorer parts of the world. | Drugs Zone | June 2010 |
| Duncan Hull | European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) near Cambridge, UK | Helping computers to understand chemistry and drugs by making them more ‘intelligent’. | Drugs Zone | June 2010 |
| Laurel Fogarty | The University of St.Andrews in Scotland | My job is to examine how animals (and especially humans) got so good at learning in different ways. | Evolution Zone | June 2010 |
| Lori-An Etherington | Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee | I test chemicals for a drug company which might be used as new medicines in the future | Drugs Zone | June 2010 |
| Maria Pawlowska | University of Cambridge | I work on reconstructing how the shallow marine environemnts looked literally 1 billion years ago. | Evolution Zone | June 2010 |
| Jane Cleal | The University of Southampton | I study the placenta: the thing that feeds the baby in the womb. I find out how it takes food from the mums blood to the baby’s blood so the baby grows properly. | IVF Zone | June 2010 |
| Sian Lawson | Newcastle University | Studying the musculo-skeletal system (muscle, bones, tendons and ligaments) by examining how people and animals move: Biomechanics. | Sports Science Zone | June 2010 |
| Claire O'Donnell | NHS – North West Specialised Commissioning Team | I work for the NHS on specialised services. These are services that aren’t in every hospital ,for example, brain surgery, kidney transplants, intensive care for children and babies, open heart surgery and rare cancers. IVF was one of these services until last month. I did a lot of work on IVF and was part of an Expert Advisory Group for the Department of Health. | IVF Zone | June 2010 |
| Sally Fenton | University of Birmingham | I am a researcher at the University of Birmingham and I am looking at how participation in youth sport football can help to keep young people healthy (mentally and physically) and reduce obesity. | Sports Science Zone | June 2010 |
| Rebecca Randell | University of Birmingham, School of Sport and Exercise Science | I am a researcher. I investigate different nutritional strategies to increase fat burning during exercise and how this can enhance exercise performance and combat obesity | Sports Science Zone | June 2010 |
| Michelle Hudson | Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) | I’m a zoologist who works for a scientific charity finding practical and valid alternatives to the use of animals in biomedical science, while I study part time for a PhD. | Drugs Zone | June 2010 |
| Peter Styring | The University of Sheffield | Professor of Chemical Engineering & Chemistry, including Snowsports Engineering | Sports Science Zone | June 2010 |
| Greg FitzHarris | University College London Institute for Women’s Health | Am trying to work out why womens’ eggs get a bit dodgy as they get older | IVF Zone | June 2010 |
| Jo Broadbent | NHS North East Essex | I make sure the health services in my area are as good quality as they can be. I also make sure they treat all the illnesses that people in my area have. | IVF Zone | June 2010 |
| Pete Edwards | Durham University | Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe | Imaging Zone | June 2010 |
| Stephen Curry | Imperial College London | I study the molecules of life and death in glorious detail in three dimensions | Imaging Zone | June 2010 |
| Marieke Navin | Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester | I help to build a detector to look at small particles called neutrinos and communicate my love of science to people | Imaging Zone | June 2010 |
| Vicki Onions | Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Nottingham | My research involves trying to freeze whole ovaries and see if they will still work after they have thawed. | IVF Zone | June 2010 |
| Nuruz Jaman | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | IVF Zone | June 2010 | |
| Steve Roser | University of Bath | I use neutrons to look at very very thin layers | Imaging Zone | June 2010 |
| Sally Barber | Bradford Institute of Health Research and University of Leeds | I am an exercise physiologist; I investigate how we can use exercise as well as, or instead of drugs to prevent or treat different diseases. | Sports Science Zone | June 2010 |
| Zoe Duck | University of Reading | I study the surface of the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, the ‘black death’ | Neon Zone | June 2010 |
| Sharon Sneddon | I currently work for the University of Manchester and sometimes at St Mary’s Hospital, also in Manchester. | I make Embryonic Stem Cells that hopefully will be used to treat diseases like diabetes and cancer! | Neon Zone | June 2010 |
| Louise Dash | University of York | I work out how electronic devices consisting of a single molecule work by writing computer code. | Neon Zone | June 2010 |
| Laura Maliszewski | British Consulate-General Boston | I’m a classically trained American molecular biologist/virologist who now works for the UK government to build and support academic collaborations in the life sciences. | Fluorine Zone | June 2010 |
| Lily Asquith | www.lhcsound.com | I smash particles together and see what happens. | Fluorine Zone | June 2010 |
| Paul Roche | Cardiff Uni and Uni of Glamorgan | I’m an astronomer – I astronomise… | Fluorine Zone | June 2010 |
| Mark Roberts | Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford | Essentially I work on the bacterial sense of smell! | Fluorine Zone | June 2010 |
| Jon Copley | School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton | I explore undersea volcanoes in search of new species of deep-sea creatures, so that we can better understand the web of life in the oceans – our planet’s largest habitat and last unexplored frontier. | Neon Zone | June 2010 |
| Louisa Chard | Queen Marys University of London | Use viruses to create new cancer therapies | Sodium Zone | June 2010 |
| Sian Foch-Gatrell | Scottish Crop Research Institute, University of Dundee | Currently I am working on a large project which looks at how lignin is made in barley. We want to find a mutated plant with a reduced ability to make this tough compound called lignin. This would allow us to more easily access the energy stored inside the plant in the form of sugars. Then we want to use these sugars to make ethanol which can be used as a biofuel. | Magnesium Zone | June 2010 |
| Luisa Ostertag | University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition & Health, Aberdeen, UK + Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK | I try to find out how eating different kinds of foods, epsecially dark chocolate, can influence someone’s risk of getting cardiovascular disease (things like heart attacks, strokes etc.). | Magnesium Zone | June 2010 |
| Andrew McKinley | University of St Andrews | I use lasers to pick up and move microscopic objects such as cells – by not touching them, we don’t damage them! | Sodium Zone | June 2010 |
| Ben Still | Queen Mary, University of London | Trying to understand the birth of the visible Universe, using the tiniest things in Nature and the biggest experiments on Earth. | Sodium Zone | June 2010 |
| Heather McKee | University of Birmingham | I’m looking at the psychology behind obesity and weight loss-why people gain weight and how to prevent it. | Sodium Zone | June 2010 |
| Beth Dyson | Manchester University | I try to stop plants getting sunburnt! | Sodium Zone | June 2010 |
| Sarah Bardsley | Environment Agency | Crystal ball gazing | Fluorine Zone | June 2010 |
| Antonia Hamilton | University of Nottingham | I use brain scanners to see how people understand each other | Oxygen Zone | June 2010 |
| Vicki Stevenson | Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University | helping people find alternatives to using fossil fuels | Boron Zone | June 2010 |
| Tim Craggs | University of St Andrews, Scotland | I am interested in how DNA is replicated and repaired in cells, and am developing methods to watch individual moleulces of DNA being replicated. | Nitrogen Zone | June 2010 |
| Dr Hywel Jones | Sheffield Hallam University | I’m a materials scientist working in a university but also working with industry to solve their problems | Chemicals Zone | June 2010 |
| Keith Brain | University of Birmingham, in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences | I research and teach, with a particular interest in how nerves control our bodies, and how drugs affect the function of these nerves. | Boron Zone | June 2010 |
| Hywel Vaughan | BLOODHOUND SSC (Super Sonic Car) | I’m an engineer helping to design the cockpit for what will be the world’s fastest car – aiming to reach 1000mph. Update >>> New links added! | Boron Zone | June 2010 |
| Alastair Sloan | School of Dentistry, Cardiff University | I’m a craniofacial biologist and my research is focussed on understanding the repair processes in bone and teeth and tapping into these natural repair processes to develop new clinical treatments for orofacial medicine | Boron Zone | June 2010 |
| Emma Carter | University of Birmingham in the Mechanical Engineering Department | I am an engineer and I do research into improving micro-engineering systems. Before that I was investigating how people are injured by cars and how the cars can be designed to be safer for pedestrians. | Boron Zone | June 2010 |
| Stuart Kyle | Nitrogen Zone | June 2010 | ||
| Mark Lancaster | UCL | Understanding what happened in the nano-second after the Big Bang and developing new accelerators to treat cancer/generate safe nuclear power | Nitrogen Zone | June 2010 |
| Hugh Roderick | Leeds University | I use genetic modification to make African crops resistant to pests | Oxygen Zone | June 2010 |
| Douglas Blane | Me | Was a research physicist and engineer in industry; now a writer and journalist with a keen interest in getting real science out to real people. | Oxygen Zone | June 2010 |
| Matthew Hurley | University of Nottingham | I’m trying to stop bacteria from working together as a team causing infections in the lungs of children with cystic fibrosis | Oxygen Zone | June 2010 |
| Tom Hardy | The Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) | I am a research scientist working mainly in the field analytical chemistry but I also have an interest in forensic science. | Oxygen Zone | June 2010 |
| Joanna Buckley | Me | I talk and write about how great science is and I investigate the use of silver to develop high-tech plasters which can kill bacteria. | Nitrogen Zone | June 2010 |
| Donna MacCallum | School of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen | How do fungi cause disease? | Nitrogen Zone | June 2010 |
| Jessica Housden | EADS Astrium Ltd | I design spacecraft that do cool science, helping us understand climate change. | Magnesium Zone | June 2010 |
| Daniel Richardson | University College London | I study social cognition – in this case, how people talk, think and lie – by using lots of gadgets to track movements of their eyes and body. | Neon Zone | June 2010 |
| Patience Dorgu | Currently, I am a research student at the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen so I do not hold a regular job. However, over summer I am going to work evenings at a bar to make more friends and have some fun. Yipppee! | Its exciting and tedious, but I’m up to it! I am very new at this; I am working on novel ways to transport heavy crude oils. My work will help oil and gas companies spend less money in production, and free up money for other worthy causes. | Chemicals Zone | June 2010 |
| Poonam Kaushik | Royal Botanical Garden, Kew | I am developing botancical pesticides formulations based on food grade ingredients | Chemicals Zone | June 2010 |
| Rachael Fox | Unilever | Working on innovation products in personal care | Chemicals Zone | June 2010 |
| Joseph Cook | University of Reading | I’m currently working on a new method for synthesising hydrogels that could be useful in things like wound dressings, contact lenses and babies’ nappies. | Chemicals Zone | June 2010 |
| Michelle Murphy | University of Nottingham | I try to make connections between what we eat (how fat we are) and hormones in our brain. | Brain Zone | June 2010 |
| Mark Travis | University of Manchester (2007-present) | Finding out how the immune system is controlled to keep us healthy. | Are we too Clean Zone | June 2010 |
| William Davies | Cardiff University | I am trying to work out why male and female brains develop differently with a view to understanding why the sexes are vulnerable to different sorts of mental disorders | Brain Zone | June 2010 |
| Gioia Cherubini | Insitute of Cancer, Queen Mary University of London | I am a virologist trying to use viruses as a weapon to kill cancer | Cancer Zone | June 2010 |
| Joanna Brooks | University of Edinburgh | Why the right side of the brain prefers the left side of space | Brain Zone | June 2010 |
| Joanna Watson | Oxford University | I try to work out why some people are more likely to get cancer than others. | Cancer Zone | June 2010 |
| Iain Moal | London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK | I’m a computational biologist. With the help of clever chemistry, physics and maths, I use supercomputers to solve biological problems. | Cancer Zone | June 2010 |
| Leo Garcia | The Institute of Cancer Research | I live in London and research new ways of diagnosing cancer | Cancer Zone | June 2010 |
| Mariam Orme | The Institute of Cancer Research, London. | I’m trying to understand more about the process by which cells (the building blocks that make up all living things) ‘commit suicide’ for the good of the whole organism when something goes wrong within that cell. | Cancer Zone | June 2010 |
| Jane Henry | Open University | I’m interested in how people develop over time. I a social scientist so I tend to use interviews and surveys to approach this topic. | Brain Zone | June 2010 |
| Fiona Randall | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan | I’m interested in how brain cells send messages to one another and how this stops working properly in diseases like Parkinsons. | Brain Zone | June 2010 |
| Michael Loughlin | Nottingham Trent University | Examining bacteria found in hospitals and finding out if they could cause disease | Are we too Clean Zone | June 2010 |
| Mark Fogg | University of York, Department of Chemistry, 2003-present. | I try to figure out how bacteria work and how we can use this knowledge to fight infection, make something useful or to just know the answer. | Are we too Clean Zone | June 2010 |
| Emma Pilgrim | North Wyke Research which is part of Rothamsted Research | My main aim as an ecologist is to develop ways to increase food availability for hungry humans but in such a way that doesn’t damage the environment | Silicon Zone | June 2010 |
| Andrew Maynard | University of Michigan, USA | I help people make science-informed decisions about stuff that affects them. | Silicon Zone | June 2010 |
| Panos Soultanas | University of Nottingham | University Professor of Biochemistry | Are we too Clean Zone | June 2010 |
| Marianne Baker | Cancer Research UK, Queen Mary University | I’m a PhD student living in central London and working in a cancer research lab! | Silicon Zone | June 2010 |
| Paula Gilfillan | I work for the Chief Environmental and Safety Officer (Royal Navy) at the Navy’s Headquarters in Portsmouth. | I research, develop and write environmental management policy for the land estate of the Royal Navy. | Silicon Zone | June 2010 |
| Alexandra Kamins | Cambridge Infectious Disease Consortium, University of Cambridge | I look at diseases that can “jump” from one kind of animal to another–including humans. | Magnesium Zone | June 2010 |
| Dean Whittaker | University of Bath | Looking at how atoms move about inside amorphous materials using neutron scattering | Magnesium Zone | June 2010 |
| Andrew Leitch | Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh | I’m working on developing new treatments for lung disease at the Centre for Inflammation Research in Edinburgh. | Silicon Zone | June 2010 |
| Paula Salgado | Imperial College London, Division of Molecular Biosciences | I focus on finding out the shape of life’s fundamental molecules: proteins. That’s really important to understand their function and can also help develop targeted drugs to cure and prevent diseases. | Aluminium Zone | June 2010 |
| Sarah Burl | Medical Research Council, The Gambia | I am interested in how infants respond to vaccines | Are we too Clean Zone | June 2010 |
| Hermine Schnetler | United Kingdom Technology Centre ((I like the word “technology” in my company or institution’s name) | As Head of Group for Systems Engineering at UKATC, I help to define both the processes and the requirements for future astronomical instruments. Working with diverse global teams, this is a challenging and stimulating role. | Aluminium Zone | June 2010 |
| Katy Mee | British Geological Survey (part of the Natural Environment Research Council) | I am a geologist, a volcano specialist and a geographical information scientist!! | Aluminium Zone | June 2010 |
| Nathalie Pettorelli | Zoological Society of London | I’m a conservation biologist: my work consists in helping protecting biodiversity and investigating the effects of climate change on animals | Aluminium Zone | June 2010 |
| Laura Dixon | Scottish Agricultural College | I study what motivates animals to perform various behaviour patterns, including both normal and abnormal behaviours. | Aluminium Zone | June 2010 |
| Kara Cerveny | Cell Press, Cambridge, MA, USA. | I have just started working as a science writer and editor at Cell, one of the top journals (magazines) that publishes cutting-edge biolgical research discoveries. | Stem Cell Research Zone | March 2011 |
| Jayne Charnock | The University of Manchester | I’m a stem cell biologist that loves working at the clinical interface – I work in a lab but always have one eye on how my research could be used therapeutically! | Stem Cell Research Zone | March 2011 |
| Luna Munoz | Durham University | I am a developmental psychologist who studies how some children become cold and hurtful people | Potassium Zone | March 2011 |
| Sharon Sneddon | I work at the University of Manchester | I make Embryonic Stem Cells that hopefully will be used to treat diseases like cancer and diabetes. | Stem Cell Research Zone | March 2011 |
| Emma King | ESRC Innogen Centre, Univeristy of Edinburgh | I am currently doing a PhD, so I am spending three years studying the regulation of stem cell research and how that impacts on the development of new therapies. | Stem Cell Research Zone | March 2011 |
| James Chan | Imperial College London | I aim to speed up the healing of broken bones by figuring out how to talk to stem cells. | Stem Cell Research Zone | March 2011 |
| Mark Hill | Sussex Police | A bit like ‘Silent Witness’ – I try to tell the story of the person who has died – someone has to. | Forensic Science Zone | March 2011 |
| Katherine Davies | University of Portsmouth | Researching how we can use flies to determine time since death more effectively | Forensic Science Zone | March 2011 |
| Jodie Dunnett | Staffordshire University | Teaching, research and admissions | Forensic Science Zone | March 2011 |
| Jamie Pringle | Keele University | Lecturing, research and doing searches for buried material | Forensic Science Zone | March 2011 |
| Mark Vesey | Sellafield Ltd | Project manage nuclear reprocessing and decommissioning projects. | Potassium Zone | March 2011 |
| Suzie Sheehy | I have a 3-year research fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and I work in the Accelerator Science and Technology Centre (ASTeC) based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. | I design machines called particle accelerators which I hope will make the world a better place. | Space Zone | March 2011 |
| Niamh Nic Daeid | Centre for forensic science, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow | I teach, lead research, carry out some case work and write books and research papers | Forensic Science Zone | March 2011 |
| Adam Tuff | I currently work at the University of York. | I look at the reactions that occur inside stars to try and understand why they produce light, and why our Universe looks like it does today. | Space Zone | March 2011 |
| Geoff McBride | The Science and Technology Facilities Council | I investigate how UK Science can solve Global Challenges such as the Energy Crisis, Environment, Healthcare, and Security. | Space Zone | March 2011 |
| Robert Simpson | Oxford University | As a web developer, I create websites that allow people to help researchers do science. As a researcher, I use the results of those websites to understand how stars and planets form in the Universe. | Space Zone | March 2011 |
| Sheila Kanani | I work at Mullard Space Science Laboratory | Trying to find out more about The Lord of the Rings, aka Saturn, and its rings and its moons, using the Cassini spacecraft. | Space Zone | March 2011 |
| David Pyle | I now work at the University of Oxford, in the department of Earth Sciences. | I have one of the best jobs in the world. I study active volcanoes, to try and work out what they have done in the past, and how they will behave in the future. | Potassium Zone | March 2011 |
| Julian Rayner | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. www.sanger.ac.uk | I try to understand how malaria parasites recognise and invade human red blood cells, in order to develop new ways to block invasion and treat malaria, which kills more than a million children every year. | Argon Zone | March 2011 |
| Diana Drennan | Unilever R&D, Trumbull, CT. | I design and use computer 3D models to find new compounds that can help your skin. | Chlorine Zone | March 2011 |
| Caspar Addyman | Birkbeck, University of London and University of Burgundy, in Dijon France | I use computers, games and even computer games to find out how babies, children and adults learn about the world. | Chlorine Zone | March 2011 |
| Murray Collins | I am very lucky to be funded by NERC-ESRC to work at The Institute of Zoology and The London School of Economics and Political Science. | I’m trying to understand how tropical rainforests can be better managed to reduce carbon emissions, and to keep a place for wildlife to live. | Chlorine Zone | March 2011 |
| Charlie Ryan | Engineering department, Queen Mary University of London | I’m working on producing a very small rocket engine for miniturized spacecraft! | Argon Zone | March 2011 |
| Sarah Thomas | University of Edinburgh, School of Chemistry. And my research is funded by Cancer Research UK. | I’m studying Cancer and trying to make a blood test so that we can detect it in the early stages. | Chlorine Zone | March 2011 |
| Melanie Stefan | California Institute of Technology in sunny California! | I combine computer models and experiments to study the molecules responsible for learning and memory. | Potassium Zone | March 2011 |
| Alan Winfield | University of the West of England, Bristol | I’m an engineer and roboticist. I do research in swarm robotics, and I write and lecture on wider robotics questions, including the value and impact of robots in science and society. | Chlorine Zone | March 2011 |
| Eoin Lettice | University College Cork | I use some sneaky tricks to try and fool pesky plant pests! | Argon Zone | March 2011 |
| Stephen Moss | UCL Institute of Ophthalmology | I’m studying what happens to the cells of the eye when people lose their sight, and trying to find new ways of preventing sight loss | Argon Zone | March 2011 |
| Probash Chowdhury | GlaxoSmithKline R&D (for the last 11½ years) | I test the safety of potential new medicines before doctors can use them. | Potassium Zone | March 2011 |
| Jemma Ransom | I look at how the cells in your brain (neurons) use vitamins that you eat in your diet. | Argon Zone | March 2011 | |
| Sarah Cook | RPS Energy | Nickel Zone | June 2011 | |
| Rhys Phillips | EADS Innovation Works, Newport | At work, I look at how to protect aeroplanes against lightning strikes. In my spare time, I have my own bands and radio shows. | Nickel Zone | June 2011 |
| Simone Bijvoet | Stirling University, Scotland. (Stirling ia a small city in between Glasgow and Edinburgh). | I look at how good kids are at pretending and if more creative kids are better at pretending than less creative kids. | Scandium Zone | June 2011 |
| Clare Woulds | The University of Leeds | I study the chemistry and biology of the sea floor, finding out who lives there, and what they eat. | Marine and Underwater Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Katherine Jones | GlaxoSmithKline | I work as a medicinal chemist. This means I design compounds that could be new medicines, then I make them in the laboratory so that we can see if they work. | Scandium Zone | June 2011 |
| Ian van der Linde | . | Nickel Zone | June 2011 | |
| Arttu Rajantie | Imperial College | I do research in theoretical cosmology, using our knowledge of particle physics to understand how the universe began, and teach physics to university students. | Quantum Zone | June 2011 |
| Monica Jung De Andrade | University of Texas in Dallas (USA) | Over the shoulders of giants, to make small contributions for science by producing building blocks in the nanoscale (ex: nanotubes, nanowires, nanospheres). | Quantum Zone | June 2011 |
| James Jennings | University of Nottingham | I use carbon dioxide, in its form between liquid and gas, to make new types of plastic material. | Phosphorus Zone | June 2011 |
| Barbara Guinn | University of Bedfordshire, 2010 – Present | I look for proteins which can remind the immune system (T cells) to kill cancer cells. | Phosphorus Zone | June 2011 |
| Andy Norton | Oxford University | I am smashing bits of ceramics (like the stuff that your dinner plates are made from), listening to how they deform, and then using a microscope to see what sort of damage has occurred. | Phosphorus Zone | June 2011 |
| Alice Jones | Goldsmiths, University of London | Investigating why some children develop serious behaviour problems, and what interventions and treatments work best | Phosphorus Zone | June 2011 |
| Jo Hulsmans | University of Warwick | I look at how plant roots can ‘sense’ bacteria in their environment. | Phosphorus Zone | June 2011 |
| David Corne | Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh | I work in artificial intelligence – which is about trying to get computers to do clever things. | Nickel Zone | June 2011 |
| James Monk | University College London | I analyse collision data on proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider | Quantum Zone | June 2011 |
| Philip Dolan | Oxford University | I shine lasers on diamonds with the hope of making a better computer (one day). | Quantum Zone | June 2011 |
| Helen Fletcher | University of Oxford | I read and write scientific papers on tuberculosis (TB) vaccines and help our students design their experiments and analyse their results | Nickel Zone | June 2011 |
| Ceri Brenner | Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | I’m a laser plasma physicist, which basically involves shooting ridiculously intense laser pulses at tiny targets and looking at all the stuff that comes flying off with a view to use this interaction, for example, to build a compact particle accelerator. | Quantum Zone | June 2011 |
| Matthew Dickinson | UCLan | Piston ring power, making cars better and greener for the world to enjoy | Vanadium Zone | June 2011 |
| Eva Bachmair | University of Aberdeen | I work with human platelets and try to find out how their function can be modulated | Titanium Zone | June 2011 |
| Michael Wharmby | University of St Andrews | I make brightly coloured crystals for storing and separating gases – useful for storing carbon dioxide (CO2) to fight climate change or for hydrogen powered cars. | Titanium Zone | June 2011 |
| Paddy Brock | Institute of Zoology, London | I investigate human impacts on the health of Galapagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki) | Titanium Zone | June 2011 |
| Phil Denniff | GlaxoSmithKline | Trying to do what I want to do and still let the boss think he is in control. Finding the limitations of dried blood spots, an alternative method of taking blood samples without having to stick a needle in your arm. | Titanium Zone | June 2011 |
| Chris Jordan | Jodrell Bank Observatory. Part of Manchester University. I started here in 1990 and it’s a marvellous place to work. | I work at Jodrell Bank Observatory, getting computers to move large chunks of metal around …. and then see what numbers come out – I’ve done this to steel rolling mills (noisy), big wind turbines (scary), channel tunnel digging machines (no toilets!) and now radio telescopes (cool). | Titanium Zone | June 2011 |
| Chandrika Nair | Imperial College London | I am trying to work out exactly how and why certain bacteria make poisonous cyanide (!) in the lungs of Cystic Fibrosis patients in the hope that one day we can stop them. | Vanadium Zone | June 2011 |
| Dave Sproson | Institute for Climate & Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds. | I study how sea-spray may provide some of the energy required to power typhoons and hurricanes. | Marine and Underwater Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Alex Davenport | In Australia between science jobs | My work to date has focussed on Cancer Biology, In articular the interplay between the immune system and cancer cells. | Vanadium Zone | June 2011 |
| Julie Greensmith | School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham | I make programs based on the human immune system’s behaviour to detect computer hackers, and use the same system to classify the emotions of people. | Vanadium Zone | June 2011 |
| Lyndsey Fox | University of Leeds | I’m a geologist! I research climate change during the Miocene (17 million years ago) using microfossils collected from the sea floor in the Pacific Ocean. Understanding past climate change helps us predict the future! | Vanadium Zone | June 2011 |
| Aimé Fournier | I use interesting mathematical methods from other research areas to analyze and simulate weather & climate phenomena. | Sulfur Zone | June 2011 | |
| Akshat Rathi | University of Oxford | I aim to make complex molecules in the lab that nature has made over millions of years to understand and utilise the powerful tools that nature has built. | Sulfur Zone | June 2011 |
| Martin Lindley | Loughborough University | I investigate the impact of diet (ie fish oil) and exercise (ie swimming) on the lung (ie asthma) and somones ability to exercise. | Sports Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Stuart Mourton | Bangor University | I investigate how we learn skills and what affects the decisions we make during sport | Sports Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Carys Cook | Imperial College London | How do we know when Antarctica’s ice sheets are going to melt in the future? By looking at how it behaved in the past! Officially, I am an isotope geochemist, but also a paleoclimatologist – in fact, my work involves many different aspects of Earth sciences! | Scandium Zone | June 2011 |
| Christopher Phillips | ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai’i | I bring the latest and greatest discoveries in space down to Earth. | Scandium Zone | June 2011 |
| Mark Burnley | Aberystwyth University | I study the way in which the body provides energy to power the muscles from the uptake of oxygen, and how the body fatigues when you work hard. | Sports Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Jenni Tilley | University of Oxford (still a student) | Investigating the material properties of tendon to help us better understand tendon disease and damage | Sports Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Diana Samuel | University of Glasgow | I’m working towards discovering the mechanisms used by tree and torrent frogs to stick to surfaces, and why torrent frogs perform much better than tree frogs in very wet conditions. | Sulfur Zone | June 2011 |
| Gemma Sharp | University of Edinburgh | I’m trying to find out what causes pregnant women to go into labour when they do. To do that, I’m carrying out experiments in a lab and making a computer model using my results. | Sulfur Zone | June 2011 |
| Judith McCann | University of Manchester | I am trying to create a material whose properties change depending on the environment it is in; specifically, inside the body. | Sulfur Zone | June 2011 |
| Helen O'Connor | As I’m self employed at the moment I am my own boss (unfortunately I’m quite a tough boss!) | Sport and exercise psychologists often do a combination of scientific work (like research and writing) and practical work (using psychology to help people improve their sport performance or be healthier) | Sports Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Jeremy Green | King’s College London (KCL) at the Guy’s Hospital Campus, 27th floor. We have great views of the metropolls and an impressive collection of animal skulls (including elephant, hippo, crocodile, dugong and capybara). | I try to understand how cells make bodies – how do you go from an egg to a person? | Scandium Zone | June 2011 |
| Amy MacQueen | PhD student at the Babraham Institute | I am trying to understand what goes on inside white blood cells to help protect us from infections and diseases. | Calcium Zone | June 2011 |
| Emma Bennett | The University of Reading | I’m looking at plants to try and make crops with bigger and more nutritious seeds that can help feed the world. | Cobalt Zone | June 2011 |
| Philippa Demonte | I am a geophysics student and volcano detective | Copper Zone | June 2011 | |
| Kate Clancy | The University of Illinois. | I am a mother, an athlete and a scientist who studies women’s health and behavior – I like to say that I study all things “ladybusiness” but you can read more here: http://bit.ly/mbDN67. | Copper Zone | June 2011 |
| Jen Gupta | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester | I try to understand galaxies that are spewing out too much energy – more energy than the stars could produce – because of a super-massive black hole in the middle of the galaxy . I also help to make an astronomy podcast called The Jodcast. | Cobalt Zone | June 2011 |
| Joseph Finlayson | Myself at monoton.us | While I was studying Philosophy, I looked at the philosophical implications of science. Does Quantum Mechanics entail a probabilistic view of matter? Does Einsteinian relativity imply that their are different ‘presents’ than our own? Are these questions even worth asking? Stuff like that. | Cobalt Zone | June 2011 |
| Dalya Soond | Babraham Institute (Cambridge) | Indulge my curiosity and amazement about Nature by designing crafty experiments to see how it all works. | Chromium Zone | June 2011 |
| Mona Gharaie | University of Manchester | Cobalt Zone | June 2011 | |
| Michael Taggart | Newcastle University | I teach students about physiology and run a research laboratory investigating how a particular cell type – smooth muscle cells – controls tissues and organs in our body. | Cobalt Zone | June 2011 |
| Jamie Gallagher | University of Glasgow | I grow tiny crystals that can turn body heat into electricity- I work to make little devices that could be powered just with body heat. | Copper Zone | June 2011 |
| Emily Robinson | University of Manchester | I am a third year PhD student trying to understand the secret double agent inside your body which is attacking your brain… Your immune system! | Copper Zone | June 2011 |
| Edward Codling | Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex | I use maths and computer simulations to study the behaviour of animals and their interactions with the environment they live in. | Ecology Zone | June 2011 |
| Christine Switzer | University of Strathclyde | I apply laboratory and small field experiments to solve complex environmental problems such as contaminated land. | Ecology Zone | June 2011 |
| William Eborall | University of York (2009 – 2013) | I’m working with a small sea creature called a “gribble” to learn how it is able to eat and digest wood so that we can use this to make petrol for our cars out of farming waste. | Energy Generation Zone | June 2011 |
| Jessica Chu | The University of Nottingham | To investigate the anticancer properties of several Malaysian Rainforest plants. | Ecology Zone | June 2011 |
| Nicolas Biber | At the University of Plymouth | I look at plastic rubbish in the environment, what happens to it and what effect it might have on the environment. | Ecology Zone | June 2011 |
| Cesar Lopez-Monsalvo | Queen Mary, University of London | Doing science is more than just doing work. | Copper Zone | June 2011 |
| Zara Gladman | University of Glasgow | I study crayfish, which are lobster-like animals that live in freshwater lakes, ponds and rivers. | Ecology Zone | June 2011 |
| Derek McKay-Bukowski | Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (Finland) and Science & Technology Facilities Council (UK) | I build radio telescopes which are used explore our atmosphere, the solar system and deep space. | Chromium Zone | June 2011 |
| Sarah Thomas | University of Edinburgh, School of Chemistry. And my research is funded by Cancer Research UK. | I’m studying Cancer and how it grows, and working towards a diagnostic blood test that will help us detect it in the early stages. | Chromium Zone | June 2011 |
| Cat O'Connor | University of Glasgow | I’m trying to get a better understanding of a disease called bovine tuberculosis by looking at how cattle and badgers can spread this nasty illness. | Microbiology Zone | June 2011 |
| Tim Fosker | Queen’s University Belfast. | I measure the electricity produced by children’s brains to discover how children understand speech and learn to read. | Brain Zone | June 2011 |
| Suzi Gage | At the moment I’m doing a PhD in the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol. A PhD means 4 years as a student, but working on one project, with help from supervisors. I’ll write it up at the end, as a thesis, and if it’s good enough I’ll be a doctor at the end of it. | I use data already collected by other scientists to see if there’s a link between smoking cannabis and illnesses like psychosis and depression. | Brain Zone | June 2011 |
| Darren Braddick | University of Warwick as a PhD researcher | Studying antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus | Microbiology Zone | June 2011 |
| Holly Shelton | I now work at Imperial College London | I create mutant flu viruses to understand how bird flu could cause illness in humans. | Microbiology Zone | June 2011 |
| Pamela Lithgow | Institute for Animal Health | I work with a tiny virus which goes inside the cells of a pig and makes them really ill, I am trying to work out what cells it goes in so we can stop it. | Microbiology Zone | June 2011 |
| Johnson Soronnadi | Ulster Hospital Belfast | I culture human samples with the aim of isolating and identifing the different micro-organisms ( Staphylococcus, Salmonella, E.coli) which may be causing infections in humans and identifying specific antibiotic for their treatment. | Microbiology Zone | June 2011 |
| Simon Bennett | University College London | I trying to learn more about how the brain wires itself together in the first weeks after birth. | Brain Zone | June 2011 |
| Rachael Ward | My postdoc position at UCL finished in February and I’m currently writing papers while I look for another job. I am looking in Berlin, Germany as I’m moving there this summer. | For my most recent job I studied how brain cells (neurons) communicate with one another. | Brain Zone | June 2011 |
| Drew Rae | University of York | I ask “why do big accidents happen” and “how do we stop big accidents from happening”. | Calcium Zone | June 2011 |
| Tom Crick | Cardiff Metropolitan University | I research how to make next-generation microprocessors run more efficiently, as well as teaching my university students programming and mathematics. | Chromium Zone | June 2011 |
| Tim Millar | Division of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton | I am a research scientist and lecturer trying to discover what happens when cancer cells spread around the body through the blood vessels and how we can try and stop it happening. | Chromium Zone | June 2011 |
| Julia Griffen | University of Bath | I make new compounds to be tested as potential diabetes drugs. | Calcium Zone | June 2011 |
| Kimberley Bryon | Medical Research Council | Memory works by neurons talking to each other in the brain, I am trying to figure out how the neurons talk to each other. | Calcium Zone | June 2011 |
| Damien Hall | University of Kent | I interview people and analyse the sounds, and that helps us find stuff out about the people and the society they live in. | Brain Zone | June 2011 |
| Sara Imari Walker | NASA Astrobiology Institute and Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona USA | I am a physicist and astrobiologist who is fascinated by the search for life in the universe. | Calcium Zone | June 2011 |
| Suze Kundu | Materials Chemistry Centre, UCL | My mission is to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight, so that we can store the hydrogen and use it as fuel instead of petrol, coal and other horrible polluting fossil fuels! | Energy Generation Zone | June 2011 |
| Mike Dodd | University of Oxford | Understanding how the heart changes it’s fuel during heart disease. | Energy Generation Zone | June 2011 |
| Ryan Ladd | I work at the University of Bath. | I work in the Ocean Technologies laboratory at The University of Bath designing and researching submarines which swim like fish, turtles or birds like penguins! | Iron Zone | June 2011 |
| Kath O'Reilly | I work at Imperial College, London. I’m in the Faculty of Medicine, and work in the Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology | I look at why vaccination works! (and why it doesn’t always work) | Iron Zone | June 2011 |
| James Hargreaves | I work for a large food company now. We make all sorts of yummy treats. I work trying new functional ingrediants in products, and seeing what benefit we can get by adding them. If you think of Captain Birdseye, you’ll see what products I mean :-) | Think of Heston Blumenthal or Willy Wonka, and thats pretty much my job!! | Iron Zone | June 2011 |
| Alex Munro | Newcastle University | With data from 2 large cohort studies I will see whether protein consumption is linked to physical capability in older people | Healthy Ageing Zone | June 2011 |
| Amy Reeve | Newcastle University | I am trying to understand what makes brain cells die in Parkinson’s disease, when we understand this we can begin to develop better treatments for this disease. | Healthy Ageing Zone | June 2011 |
| Georgia Campbell | Newcastle University MRG (Mitochondrial Research Group) | I look for links between damage to mitochondrial DNA and aging diseases, such as Mitochondrial disease, Alzheimers and Parkinsons. | Healthy Ageing Zone | June 2011 |
| Andy MacLeod | Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE), University of Edinburgh | I look for genes that cause differences in our ability to think, to help fight the decline in thinking ability as we get older. | Healthy Ageing Zone | June 2011 |
| Evan Keane | Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (Max Planck was a famous German physicist and there are many places named after him, like where I work!) | I’m an astronomer and I study neutron stars. They are “zombie stars” which are born of the remains of a normal star after it explodes in a supernova. | Iron Zone | June 2011 |
| Ailsa Powell | After nearly 5 years in the USA I decided it was time to come back to the UK and have been working in the Biochemistry Department of the University of Oxford since. | I’m a biochemist and I look at new ways of treating Malaria. I use biochemistry and biophysics to do this and a technique called X-ray crystallography | Iron Zone | June 2011 |
| David Armstrong | University of Oxford | My work is to do with understanding the properties of advanced alloys for nuclear fusion applications. | Manganese Zone | June 2011 |
| Sean Clement | I work at Blue Ventures, a marine conservation charity based in the UK but with operations in Madagascar, Malaysia and Belize | I’m a marine conservationist looking at the benefits of marine protected areas to the coral reefs of southwest Madagascar. | Marine and Underwater Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Ozge Ozkaya | University of Leicester | I try to understand how an internal biological clock controls the behaviour of krill, the most abundant life form in the antarctic ocean. | Marine and Underwater Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Rebecca Handley | The Institute of Food Research | I research a bacteria called Campylobacter that causes food poisoning, I’m trying to understand how it survives on our food. | Manganese Zone | June 2011 |
| Simon Trent | Cardiff University | Im trying to uncover the secrets behind ADHD, a disorder that mainly affects youngsters | Manganese Zone | June 2011 |
| Wei Xun | Imperial College London | I try to find links between what people eat, drink, do (exercise etc) and are exposed to, and long term diseases such as cancer. | Manganese Zone | June 2011 |
| Verity Nye | National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. | I’m a marine biologist studying animals that live at hot springs on the deep-sea floor. | Manganese Zone | June 2011 |
| Ollie Russell | Newcastle University | Im testing compounds to see if we can change DNA expression in mitochondria to treat mitochondrial diseases | Healthy Ageing Zone | June 2011 |
| Amelia Markey | University of Manchester | I’m developing a miniaturised device for breaking open cells, copying the DNA from the cells and storing the DNA | Genes Zone | June 2011 |
| Sam Tazzyman | I currently work at University College London. | I use mathematics to look at animal mating – what they find sexy and why, amongst other things. | Evolution Zone | June 2011 |
| Katie Marriott | University of Leeds | I work in the lab reacting different chemicals to see how the first life on Earth may have evolved. | Evolution Zone | June 2011 |
| Ed Morrison | University of Portsmouth, department of Psychology. | I investigate how evolution shapes the way humans and other animals behave, espcially how they find partners to mate with. | Evolution Zone | June 2011 |
| Steven Daly | The University of Nottingham | I use light from a powerful laser to see if I can explain why the building blocks of life are the way that they are. | Evolution Zone | June 2011 |
| Vera Weisbecker | I am currently working at Jena University, Germany | I try to understand why and how animals (particularly mammals, like you and me) ended up looking (that is, evolving) the way they do today. | Evolution Zone | June 2011 |
| James Marrow | Oxford University, Department of Materials (since Sept 2010) | I’m working out how materials get damaged, and how to make them stronger and more resistant to damage. | Energy Generation Zone | June 2011 |
| David Ingram | Edinburgh University | I try to understand the interaction of waves and tidal currents with electricity generation machines. | Energy Generation Zone | June 2011 |
| Sue Carney | Ethos Forensics. | I use forensic science to investigate crimes by recovering evidence, carrying out tests, interpreting my findings in a statement and explaining them at court to help the criminal justice system. | Forensic Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Shane Pennington-Cooper | University of Central Lancashire | As a forensic science teaching mentor I make sure the students have a clear understanding of the lectures they have attended, help them with complex laboratory/witness reports and advise them on content for essays/dissertations. I then finish the day with lots of research about how we can use our own bodies to fight the dreadful cancer cells. | Forensic Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Prateek Buch | UCL Institute of Ophthalmolgoy | I use modified viruses to deliver gene-based therapies for inherited diseases that cause blindness, and investigate new animal models of these diseases. | Genes Zone | June 2011 |
| Lizzard O'Day | Lizzard Fashion | A picture is worth a thousand words- I try to figure out what molecules in our cells look like and use that info to design new drug candidates | Genes Zone | June 2011 |
| Jim Caryl | I’ve worked at the University of Leeds since finishing my PhD. | I run a fitness gym for bacteria, the ‘Gene Gym’, to see whether being resistant to antibiotics actually makes bacteria unhealthy. | Genes Zone | June 2011 |
| Richard Badge | University of Leicester | I spend my time researching, teaching and learning in the area of human genetics and genomics, particularly those human genes that move, | Genes Zone | June 2011 |
| Anna Williams | Cranfield University (2004-) | I go to crime scenes and disasters to identify dead people from their bones. | Forensic Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Richard Case | National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) since 2009 | I am able to look at a fingerprint from a crime and see if I can match it to a suspect | Forensic Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Craig McKenzie | The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland (2007-present) | I teach the next generation of forensic scientists and analytical chemists how to figure out complex problems and specialise in lab analysis (fire accelerants, drugs of abuse and pharmaceuticals), fire scene investigation and the interpretation and presentation of the evidence obtained in court. | Forensic Science Zone | June 2011 |
| Gloeta Massie | The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia | I study the toxins that are found in cephalopod venoms; basically, I get to play with squid, octopus, and cuttlefish. :) | Marine and Underwater Science Zone | June 2011 |
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