Zone Archive

There’s links here to all the scientists in all the zones we’ve run since March 2010.

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
Freya Harrison		I’m an evolutionary biologist: I try to explain why cooperative behaviours are so common in nature.	Hydrogen Zone	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
Cordelia Langford	DNA Pipelines – multi-skilled teams running a series of laboratory protocols to generate genome sequence data.	I’m a senior scientific operations manager, and I lead teams of people who use machines to sequence DNA to help analyse genomes.	Sanger Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	March 2010
Julian Parkhill	Pathogen Genomics	I study the genomes of bacterial pathogens	Sanger Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	March 2010
Paul Flicek	Vertebrate Genomics	I manage a big team of people that are trying to understand how the genomes of vertebrate species work and create tools that other scientists can use to do their work.	Sanger Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	March 2010
Steve Scott			Sanger Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	March 2010
Chris Needham		I’m a computer scientist interested in modelling biology.	Genes Zone Archived March 2010	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
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
Olivia Hibbitt		Gene therapy for high cholesterol; vectors, delivery is it going to help people?	Genes 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
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
Alex Bateman	Informatics	I am a collector of families of related proteins	Sanger Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	March 2010
Mariana Vargas		My work is about how we store and retrieve memories in our brains.	Brain Zone Archived March 2010	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
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
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
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
Emily Cook		Look inside the body, or your luggage, with x-rays	Helium 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
Tamsin Gray		I live in the Antarctic and study the weather, which can be pretty extreme here…	Helium Zone	March 2010
Carl Anderson	Human Genetics	I use computers to try and identify regions of the genome that increase risk of autoimmune diseases like Crohn’s disease, type 1 diabetes and celiac disease.	Sanger Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	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
Pamela Docherty		I try to work out maths problems that have never been solved before.	Hydrogen Zone	March 2010
Helen Ball		Plastics lightbulbs? TOPLESS Science???	Hydrogen Zone	March 2010
Louise Pendry		I ask really hungry chickens what they want to eat…	Hydrogen Zone	March 2010
Katy Milne		I inspect jet engines to make sure that they are safe.	Hydrogen Zone	March 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
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
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
Rachael Fox	Unilever	Working on innovation products in personal care	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Leo Garcia	The Institute of Cancer Research	I live in London and research new ways of diagnosing cancer	Cancer 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
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
Joanna Brooks	University of Edinburgh	Why the right side of the brain prefers the left side of space	Brain Zone	June 2010
Darren Nesbeth	University College London	Re-designing cells to be mini-factories.	Drugs 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
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
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
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
Panos Soultanas	University of Nottingham	University Professor of Biochemistry	Are we too Clean 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
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
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
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
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
Maria Pawlowska	University of Cambridge	I work on reconstructing how the shallow marine environemnts looked literally 1 billion years ago.	Evolution Zone	June 2010
Nuruz Jaman	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust		IVF Zone	June 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	June 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	June 2010
Philip Wadler	University of Edinburgh	I design programming languages—it’s like inventing new ways to think!	Beryllium Zone	June 2010
Upul Wijayantha	Loughborough University	I’m working on clean renewable energy	Beryllium Zone	June 2010
Peter Styring	The University of Sheffield	Professor of Chemical Engineering & Chemistry, including Snowsports Engineering	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Steve Roser	University of Bath	I use neutrons to look at very very thin layers	Imaging 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
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
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
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
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
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
Andrew Maynard	University of Michigan, USA	I help people make science-informed decisions about stuff that affects them.	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
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
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
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
Gavin Wright	Cell Surface Signalling Laboratory	I’m interested in understanding how cells talk with each other and then using this to understand and eventually treat diseases.	Sulston Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	June 2010
Liz Murchison	Cancer genetics and genomics	I am trying to save Tasmanian devils from a contagious cancer.	Sulston Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	June 2010
Panos Deloukas	Human Genetics	Research how genes predispose us to disease in particular heart disease or affect our response to drugs	Sulston Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	June 2010
Vijay Yadav	Mouse and Zebrafish Genetics	I use mouse as a model to understand human skeleton, and try finding new ways to cure skeletal diseases viz., osteoporosis and arthritis.	Sulston Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	June 2010
Mark Roberts	Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford	Essentially I work on the bacterial sense of smell!	Fluorine Zone	June 2010
Paul Roche	Cardiff Uni and Uni of Glamorgan	I’m an astronomer – I astronomise…	Fluorine 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
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
Hugh Roderick	Leeds University	I use genetic modification to make African crops resistant to pests	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
Lily Asquith	www.lhcsound.com	I smash particles together and see what happens.	Fluorine Zone	June 2010
Donna MacCallum	School of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen	How do fungi cause disease?	Nitrogen 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
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
Stuart Kyle			Nitrogen 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
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
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
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
Vicki Stevenson	Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University	helping people find alternatives to using fossil fuels	Boron Zone	June 2010
Darren Logan	Mouse and Zebrafish Genetics.	I’m a neurobiologist who looks into genes that influence behaviour, primarily through the sense of smell.	Sulston Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	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
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
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
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
Zoe Duck	University of Reading	I study the surface of the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, the ‘black death’	Neon 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
Jessica Housden	EADS Astrium Ltd	I design spacecraft that do cool science, helping us understand climate change.	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
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
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
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	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
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
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
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
Louisa Chard	Queen Marys University of London	Use viruses to create new cancer therapies	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
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
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
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
Andrew Maynard			Science Communication Conference 2011	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jemma Ransom		I look at how the cells in your brain (neurons) use vitamins that you eat in your diet.	Argon Zone	March 2011
Eoin Lettice	University College Cork	I use some sneaky tricks to try and fool pesky plant pests!	Argon 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
Betul Arslan			Science Communication Conference 2011	March 2011
Murray Collins			Science Communication Conference 2011	March 2011
Probash Chowdhury			Science Communication Conference 2011	March 2011
Tamsin Gray			Science Communication Conference 2011	March 2011
Jamie Pringle	Keele University	Lecturing, research and doing searches for buried material	Forensic Science 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
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
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
Jodie Dunnett	Staffordshire University	Teaching, research and admissions	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mark Vesey	Sellafield Ltd	Project manage nuclear reprocessing and decommissioning projects.	Potassium 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
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
Luna Munoz	Durham University	I am a developmental psychologist who studies how some children become cold and hurtful people	Potassium 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
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
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
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
Paddy Brock	Institute of Zoology, London	I investigate human impacts on the health of Galapagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki)	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
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
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
Matthew Dickinson	UCLan	Piston ring power, making cars better and greener for the world to enjoy	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
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
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
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
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
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
Darren Braddick	University of Warwick as a PhD researcher	Studying antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus	Microbiology 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sarah Cook	RPS Energy		Nickel 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Aimé Fournier		I use interesting mathematical methods from other research areas to analyze and simulate weather & climate phenomena.	Sulfur 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
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
James Monk	University College London	I analyse collision data on proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider	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
Philip Dolan	Oxford University	I shine lasers on diamonds with the hope of making a better computer (one day).	Quantum 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
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
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
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
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
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
Anna Williams	Cranfield University (2004-)	I go to crime scenes and disasters to identify dead people from their bones.	Forensic Science 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
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
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
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
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
Cesar Lopez-Monsalvo	Queen Mary, University of London	Doing science is more than just doing work.	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
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
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
Philippa Demonte		I am a geophysics student and volcano detective	Copper 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
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
Mona Gharaie	University of Manchester		Cobalt 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
David Ingram	Edinburgh University	I try to understand the interaction of waves and tidal currents with electricity generation machines.	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
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
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
Eleftheria Zeggini	Human Genetics	I work on diseases like obesity, arthritis, diabetes, anorexia and on other human traits like fat distribution, height and weight	Franklin Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	November 2011
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	November 2011
Julian Rayner	Malaria	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.	Franklin Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	November 2011
Matt Berriman	Pathogens	I try to understand parasites by looking at and comparing their DNA sequences.	Franklin Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	November 2011
Katharine Schofield	I work at STFC’s headquarters in Swindon	In short, I give money out to scientists for their research.	Subatomic Zone	November 2011
Mark Basham	Diamond Light Source	I write computer programs to analyse the data that other scientists collect from the Diamond Synchrotron	Subatomic Zone	November 2011
Peter Williams	Daresbury Laboratory – Accelerator Science	I design particle accelerators, make computer models of them and also do experiments on real ones.	Subatomic Zone	November 2011
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	November 2011
Elisabeth Busch	Vertebrate Development	I try to find out which gene does what in development and disease.	Franklin Zone - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	November 2011
Natalia Parzyk	ISIS user: MUSR and ARGUS, so far.	Short story about science which I’m involved..	Zinc Zone	November 2011
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	November 2011
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	November 2011
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	November 2011
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	November 2011
Katherine Haxton	Keele University, England	I make new materials that do amazing things.	Germanium Zone	March 2012
Jon Benton	University of Sheffield	I currently look at splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen via sunlight to produce clean renewable fuel for the future.	Germanium Zone	March 2012
Darren Logan	I work at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and am affiliated with Cambridge University	I’m a neuroscientist who looks into genes that influence behaviour, primarily through the sense of smell.	Germanium Zone	March 2012
Daphne Ng	National University of Singapore	I study pond scum, otherwise known as microalgae to understand how they can make useful products for us and stop our planet from overheating.	Germanium Zone	March 2012
Mario Campanelli	UCL, CERN	I am part of a big collaboration at CERN trying to understand what comes out of the LHC	Electromagnetic Zone	March 2012
John Prytherch	National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.	I’m an oceanographer and I use measurements made onboard ships to learn how the ocean and atmosphere affect one another during stormy conditions, when it is challenging to get sensors (and sea sick scientists) to work well.	Selenium Zone	March 2012
Audra Benjamin	St George’s, University of London	I look at how natural substances in lung cells cause the lungs to absorbs liquid after birth.	Sports Science Zone	March 2012
Ken Dutton-Regester	2009-2012: Queensland University of Technology and Queensland Institute of Medical Research	I’m a gene hunter- I find mutations occurring in the genes of your DNA that cause melanoma (skin cancer). Why? If we find these mutations we can develop new drugs to treat the disease.	Selenium Zone	March 2012
Cathal Breen	University of Ulster	Find out what is causing people to have heart problems and help them to get better.	Germanium Zone	March 2012
Fiona Hatch	University of Hull	I look at how your heart beats and how it might change as you get older.	Sports Science Zone	March 2012
Gavin Devereux	University Campus Suffolk	I research and teach exercise physiology (how your body works during and after physical activity), specifically looking at the cardiovascular system.	Sports Science Zone	March 2012
Justin Lawley	Bangor University, Extremes Research Group, School of Sport Health and Exercise Sciences	I generally spend most of my time in either the outdoors (rock/ice climbing, exploring very high mountains in both the Uk and abroad, skiing/snowboarding and mountain biking) or in the University (Lab, library, office or the staff room).	Sports Science Zone	March 2012
Steve Faulkner	Loughborough University	I look at a combination of environmental and thermophysiology and how it influences sports and human performance	Sports Science Zone	March 2012
Indi Ghangrekar	The University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences	I study how animals behave and react appropriately to the time of day (for example, sleeping at the right time of day to avoid getting eaten by predators, or hunting at the right time of day when their food can be found) – which is controlled by a tiny region of the brain.	Selenium Zone	March 2012
Vicky Young	The University of Edinburgh	The ovary is one of the only organs in our bodies which doesn’t scar and I am trying to find out how this happens. Other organs and tissue inside the body can develop scars espically after surgery and this can lead to extreme pain. By finding out how the ovary does not scar we can create new medicines to prevent scarring in the future.	Selenium Zone	March 2012
Jarvist Frost	Imperial College London	I design molecules to make plastic solar cells better.	Selenium Zone	March 2012
Elizabeth Pearson	Cardiff University	I look at very very very far away galaxies that are so dusty all we can see are fuzzy blobs.	Electromagnetic Zone	March 2012
Viv Lyons	Home Office	I use my physics and general science background to help the police investigate crime.	Gallium Zone	March 2012
Laura Waters	University of Huddersfield, I’ve been here for nearly ten years now	I teach and do research connected with developing new medicines, I always avoid animal testing and try to develop and promote the alternatives we should be using as there is no need to use animals anymore.	Gallium Zone	March 2012
Asif Naseer	University of Glasgow/Khyber Medical University	Perform Experiments on Diseased Human Tissues	Gallium Zone	March 2012
Sean Murphy	Wake Forest Inistitute for Regenerative Medicine, North Carolina, U.S.A. (2011-present)	I use a high tech printer to print new skin onto people with burns and injuries to help them recover faster and without scars	Gallium Zone	March 2012
James Boone	University of Sussex	Studying the damage that occurs in graphite as a result of neutron irradiation.	Quantum Zone	March 2012
Marcus Gallagher-Jones	RIKEN Spring8 centre	I’m building machines for imaging biological specimens with very powerful X-ray lasers.	Quantum Zone	March 2012
Martin Zaltz Austwick	UCL	I try to use physics and maths to try understand how large numbers of human beings interact.	Quantum Zone	March 2012
Robert Thompson	UCL	I look at funky crystals which conduct electricity in weird ways; to do this I use powerful lasers and really large microscopes. Did you know some plastics conduct electricity!	Quantum Zone	March 2012
Suzanne McEndoo	Open Quantum Systems and Entanglement Group, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.	I’m a quantum information theorist, which means I use mathematics to understand the behaviour of “ultracold” atoms and figure out how to harness the weirdness of quantum systems to make future computers and technology.	Quantum Zone	March 2012
Akram Alomainy	Queen Mary, University of London	Prove, test and apply all research I do and the same goes for my life 🙂	Energy Zone	March 2012
David Redpath			Energy Zone	March 2012
Gill Menzies	The School of the Built Environment, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh	I am a lecturer in Environment and Climate Change at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh	Energy Zone	March 2012
Jack Snape	York Plasma Institute, University of York	I’m a PhD student studying fusion energy: it powers the stars and hopefully it will power our lives in the future.	Energy Zone	March 2012
Laurence Harwood	Reading University	I am the Professor of Organic Chemistry at Reading University	Energy Zone	March 2012
Ben Smart	The University of Edinburgh and CERN	The largest machine ever created by mankind is buried underground just outside the city of Geneva, and I use it to blow stuff up, recreating the big bang so that I can find out how the universe works!	Electromagnetic Zone	March 2012
Clare Burrage	University of Nottingham	Galaxies are flying apart from one another faster and faster, nothing we know about in Physics can explain this so I try to work out what new mysterious substance is the cause.	Electromagnetic Zone	March 2012
Sam Vinko		I use the most powerful X-ray laser on Earth to recreate the type of conditions found inside the sun and at the heart of giant planets, in our solar system and beyond.	Electromagnetic Zone	March 2012
Nazim Bharmal	At the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, University of Durham. (Where all sorts of cool things are built: new ways of making 3D TV, supersharp microscopes, even tricking the eye so we can learn how humans focus.)	Working on building optical instruments to take sharper pictures of galaxies, stars, and other ‘extra-terrestrial’ objects.	Space Zone	March 2012
Leila Battison	Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and…. myself	I look at fossils of some of the earliest creatures on Earth, and predict how and where we might find life in space.	Space Zone	March 2012
Karen Masters	Portsmouth University	I try to understand galaxies, with the help of citizen scientist at Galaxy Zoo.	Space Zone	March 2012
Catherine Rix	I left my job at Unipath to start working at Cranfield University on the LMC project, which bizarrely works a bit like a pregnancy test!	I’m part of a team who are developing the Life Marker Chip, an instrument designed to look for evidence of past or present life on Mars	Space Zone	March 2012
Adam Stevens	Open University, STFC	I’m helping to develop one of the instruments designed to look at the atmosphere of Mars that will (hopefully) fly there on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, as well as simulating some of the processes going on in the atmosphere to work out what we’ll see.	Space Zone	March 2012
Lena Ciric	University College London	I fiddle with the genes of different bacteria to find out how they interact with each other and the human body.	Gallium Zone	March 2012
Anil de Sequeira	Bath Spa University	I have been involved in the development of smart labels that monitor the shelf life of chilled and frozen foods	Niobium Zone	June 2012
Michael East	Barts Health NHS Trust	I find out how people died – I’m having a bad day when my patient does wake up.	Pathology Zone	June 2012
Cees Van der Land	University of Edinburgh.	Investigating the processes which form rocks, how do you get from a coral reef to a cemented limestone?	Niobium Zone	June 2012
Emma Trantham	University of Bristol	I work with bacteria that can give you really nasty food poisoning (vomiting… diarrhoea… the lot) trying to figure out why so many chickens carry them and how we can get rid of them.	Niobium Zone	June 2012
Michael Cook	Imperial College, London	I’m building a special computer program (an “artificial intelligence”) called ANGELINA and teaching it to design videogames!	Niobium Zone	June 2012
Carol White	Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)	I’m a bio-geo-chemi-oceanographer (what a mouthful!) studying the strange creatures living on the sea floor – figuring out how they influence how much carbon is stored in ocean sediments.	Zirconium Zone	June 2012
Blanka Sengerova	University of Oxford	I study proteins (cellular machinery) that are involved in the repair of DNA (the instructions for making cellular machinery), trying to work out how DNA is repaired, which could in future help design anti-cancer drugs.	Niobium Zone	June 2012
Davie Galloway	British Geological Survey	The analysis of earthquake data which has been captured by the many seismometers that we operate around the country.	Earth Zone	June 2012
Nuala Carson	University of Liverpool and the National Oceanography Centre	I work on trying to find out why some sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic moves while other bits stays still.	Earth Zone	June 2012
Ashley Cadby	Technically I think I am employed by the Engineering and Physical sciences research council (EPSRC) but I work at the University of Sheffield.	I build microscopes to look at very small things. We have microscopes to look at single atoms, single molecules and bacteria.	Molybdenum Zone	June 2012
John Welford	I’m at Manchester University, but my research is paid for by Cummins Turbo Technologies	I’m a PhD student investigating small electric motors for use in the engines of large trucks.	Zirconium Zone	June 2012
Sam Chilka	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	I’m like a “disease detective” – I use a microscope to hunt down cancer cells in patients’ tissue samples and find out what type of cancer it might be – and this helps patients get the right treatment for their illness.	Pathology Zone	June 2012
Samantha Weaver	NHS	I’m a Biomedical Scientist which means I do tests on samples from people and animals (blood, urine, poo, saliva, CSF, body parts!) to tell doctors/vets what is wrong with their patient and to help check the treatment is working.	Pathology Zone	June 2012
Bob Bonwick	The NHS	I’m a foreward thinking self professed geek, my work allows me to practice my understanding and skills as a scientist, getting to the heart of the problem, getting the patients results as well and as quickly as I can.	Organs Zone	June 2012
Katie McDonald	North Middlesex Hospital	I’m a pathologist, working out diseases in tissues of living people as well as doing post mortems	Organs Zone	June 2012
Nisha Rana	Prof Chris Brightling, Institute of Lung Health, University Hospitals of Leicester		Organs Zone	June 2012
Sallie Baxendale	UCL & NHS	As a Clinical Neuropsychologist it’s my job to work out which bits of people’s brains are working properly and which bits aren’t.	Organs Zone	June 2012
Vee Mitchell	Convergence Pharmaceuticals	I work for a company that is trying to develop new medicines to treat pain without all the nasty side effects.	Organs Zone	June 2012
Andrew Thomas	The University of Manchester	I’m a surface spectroscopist – which means I study surfaces of materials using radiation with the aim of making better medical implants, and cheap fuel from the sun!	Molybdenum Zone	June 2012
Gemma Staite	National Health Service	Grow bugs from wee and poo, then see what will kill them	Molybdenum Zone	June 2012
James Verdon	I work at Bristol University, in their Earth Sciences department.	I study earthquakes and volcanoes – why do they happen, can we predict when they’ll occur, what can they tell us about how the earth works?	Earth Zone	June 2012
Paige Brown	Louisiana State University	I am a scientist and a communicator – As a scientist I have engineered ‘smart’ bio-nanomaterials and I study how communications can help people connect with the science of the world around them; As a communicator I turn scientific research into story!	Molybdenum Zone	June 2012
SarahJayne Boulton	Newcastle University	I’m a biological diagnostician, I use nanosensors and gold electrodes to work out how how DNA and our cells’ batteries, the ‘mitochondria’, are affected by solar radiation and the environment we live in.	Molybdenum Zone	June 2012
Michael Bloom	Imperial College London and my work is funded by the STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council)	I use some of the most powerful lasers in the world to accelerate things to fly at the speed of light over distances as small as your school ruler, with the aim, among other things, to try and cure cancer.	Laser Zone	June 2012
Philippa Bird	University of Bristol	Tracking the entry of really tiny particles (“nanoparticles”) into human cells with a laser, to deliver cancer drugs.	Laser Zone	June 2012
Tianfu Yao	Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton	High power fibre lasers with high slope efficiency and low quantum defect.	Laser Zone	June 2012
Tim Stephens	Oxford Lasers	I use lasers to take pictures of small or fast moving things.	Laser Zone	June 2012
Tom Lister	Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	I try to find better ways of firing lasers at people…	Laser Zone	June 2012
Gemma Purser	British Geological Survey	I carry out high pressure and temperature experiments for carbon capture and storage research (CCS). I recreate the conditions in the laboratory that can occur deep underground. I study how carbon dioxide reacts with different types of rocks.	Earth Zone	June 2012
James Pope	University of Leeds	I run a climate model set up for 3 million years ago to find out what a world with a warmer climate is like.	Earth Zone	June 2012
Eleanor Turpin	University of Nottingham	Supercomputers vs. superbugs – I use computer simulations to understand how new antibiotics can treat illnesses that are very hard to cure.	Zirconium Zone	June 2012
Caroline Dalton	UCL	I am trying to understand how mitochondria, which make energy for the cell in the form of ATP, are important for making good eggs. These are fertilised by sperm to make a baby so if they aren’t “good eggs” this can lead to some people having problems when they want to have children.	Bromine Zone	June 2012
Phil	Royal Holloway University of London,	Me and 200 other scientists trying to make the UK a better and safer place. (While having fun with science along the way of course!)	Zirconium Zone	June 2012
Sarah Hart	Keele University	I use chemistry to try and understand what proteins do and how this can go wrong	Krypton Zone	June 2012
Hitesh Dave	GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Company (GSK R&D) , Ware, UK	I work in Pathology division of safety assessment department. It sounds complicated..rgt??..okay let’s make it simple…Safety assessment means to assess the safety of our newly discovered and designed drugs/molecules/compounds which will be going to become medicines for patients. It’s so simple..we can’t test new chemical straight to humans..so we need to check the safety of those chemicals on non-human species….and if the chemical is promising and pass all the safety tests..it will go to clinic to check safety and efficacy (Will it cure the illness??) on patients…	Rubidium Zone	June 2012
Hywel Owen	University of Manchester	I design particle accelerators used for various things, such as curing cancer, making nuclear energy work better, and assisting scientific discoveries.	Rubidium Zone	June 2012
Mae Woods	University College London	I work with moving cells and use scientific computer games generated by mathematical models to predict where they will move next	Rubidium Zone	June 2012
Nicola Ibberson	Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge	I read the blueprint of life: your DNA, and can determine the risk to you, your family and your unborn children of inherited disease.	Rubidium Zone	June 2012
Tiffany Taylor	I’m employed by the University of Reading	I’m a code breaker – inside every cell is a code which gives the recipe of life, by changing this code I try to understand how it evolved, and how easily it can change	Rubidium Zone	June 2012
Austin Elliott	University of Manchester	Thinking about how the insides of cells use ‘instructions’ to decide what the cell should do… trying to explain complicated stuff simply… and fixing microscopes.	Krypton Zone	June 2012
Kirsty Ross	University of Strathclyde	I want to understand why people get arthritis and help discover new targets for treatments	Krypton Zone	June 2012
Nicola Brownlow		I am interested in the mechanisms that cells use to correctly copy and seperate their DNA during cell division	Krypton Zone	June 2012
Nike Dattani	Oxford University	I’m designing the world’s next generation of computers, which are much more powerful than the ones we use today !	Krypton Zone	June 2012
Alison Graham	Newcastle University	I teach university students about microbiology – what bacteria are, how they grow and how they can be useful to us in food production and clean-up of pollutants.	Bromine Zone	June 2012
Vijay Yadav	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	I use mouse as a model to understand human skeleton, and try finding new ways to cure skeletal diseases viz., osteoporosis and arthritis.	Strontium Zone	June 2012
Artem Evdokimov	Monsanto	I am trying to teach molecules (proteins & DNA mostly) new tricks, so that some day in the future we can hope for a more reliable and sustainable food supply.	Bromine Zone	June 2012
Matt Gunther	University of Manchester	I am currently looking at how our nuclear waste can be damaged by interacting with the atmosphere, so the nuclear industry can take steps to prevent it.	Bromine Zone	June 2012
John Short	University of St Andrews	I study how dangerous viruses infect and provoke our cells to counterattack and destroy the intruder!	Bromine Zone	June 2012
Les Firbank	University of Leeds	I’m an ecologist, interested in how we can use our land and natural resources more sustainably	GM Food Zone	June 2012
Ricarda Steinbrecher	I work as a self employed consultant	I am a biologist and a (molecular) geneticist, working on sustainable agriculture and on issues related to risks of genetically modified (GM) organisms, such as crops, trees, fish or insects.	GM Food Zone	June 2012
Julian Little	Bayer CropScience	I work for Bayer CropScience here in the UK and chair the industry’s outreach programme on the use of biotechnology in agriculture	GM Food Zone	June 2012
Cathie Martin	John Innes Centre	Me: Research Scientist. My work: Designing ways to enrich crops nutrionally, and to identify healthy dietary constituents.	GM Food Zone	June 2012
Andy Stirling	the University of Sussex	I teach, research and give policy advice on issues to do with scientific uncertainty and the politics of technology	GM Food Zone	June 2012
Angharad Davies	Swansea University	I’m a medical microbiologist, and in our lab we grow bugs which can range from friendly bacteria to deadly superbugs, to diagnose patients with infections.	Pathology Zone	June 2012
Will Reynolds	University of Bath	Im a chemist working on environmentally friendly ways of making medicines. Which means I have to design complicated molecules without posioning anyone or blowing anything up!	Strontium Zone	June 2012
Sarah Martin	The University of Edinburgh – but it’s my boss Thierry who interviewed me and gave me the job	I use large machines to study tiny biological processes. My experiment this week is to see how the smallest known alga copes with little food in the ocean – figuring this out will help us grow plants in future that need less or no fertilisers, which are currently made from non-renewable gas and oil reserves.	Strontium Zone	June 2012
Rebecca Lacey	University College London	I am Social Epidemiologist. I look at why some children who experience parental divorce report psychological distress as an adult and how this has changed over the last 50 years	Zirconium Zone	June 2012
Lizzie Eaves	University of Manchester	Working to make paints more environmentally friendly, and making sure the Dulux dog continues to stay on your screens……	Materials Zone	June 2012
Allan Pang	Queen Mary University of London	I am trying to piece together jigsaw puzzle of bacterial proteins. These proteins assemble into a polygon which converts different types of alcohol to use as food by bacteria.	Yttrium Zone	June 2012
Angela Lamb	Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)	I measure minute chemical differences in things like teeth, hair and bone to understand what ancient people ate and where they came from.	Yttrium Zone	June 2012
Diva Amon	The Natural History Museum, London and the University of Southampton	I’m studying the weird and wonderful creatures that live in the deep sea, and am especially interested in those that feed on dead whales!	Yttrium Zone	June 2012
Harriet Groom	Medical Research Council	I look at the way viruses interact with cells in your body: both how the virus uses the cell and how the cell tries to get rid of the virus.	Yttrium Zone	June 2012
Nathan Langford	Royal Holloway, University of London	I used to play with lasers, but now I play with superconductors (so cold, they’re even colder than space!) – all in order to try and build a quantum computer, which could simulate DNA, show that photosynthesis is really quantum-powered, and make unbreakable cryptocodes.	Yttrium Zone	June 2012
Andrew Watt	University of Oxford	Making nanomaterials for solar cells, batteries, rockets and explosives.	Materials Zone	June 2012
Beth Mortimer	I’m a student funded by the Leverhulme Trust	I work with the biological material silk, working with the animals that produce it and testing the material using engineering methods (such as shooting the silk).	Materials Zone	June 2012
Bruce Alexander	University of Greenwich	I teach students chemistry and do research on materials for renewable fuels, solar energy and the occasional drug.	Materials Zone	June 2012
Lindy Heath	University of Nottingham	I make exciting materials called aerogels. They are environmentally friendly and can be used to keep you warm.	Materials Zone	June 2012
Anouk Gouvras	Natural History Museum	I collect the DNA of small parasitic worms that infect people and animals in Africa	Genes Zone	June 2012
Karen Reed	Cardiff University	I work in the field of cancer genetics, and I use mice to look at all of our genes to see what happens when a normal cell turns bad and becomes a cancer cell.	Strontium Zone	June 2012
Chris Kettle	Mr Cameron, via the NHS	Clinical Cytogenetics – the heart of genetics	Genes Zone	June 2012
Judith Sleeman	University of St Andrews	I work on how the cells of our body use the information stored in our genes: in particular the amazingly dynamic molecular ‘machines’ that edit the messages written in the genes so they can be understood by the rest of the cell.	Genes Zone	June 2012
Leisha Nolen	Medical Research Council, Edinburgh, UK	How to fit 3 meters of DNA into a .000003 meter nucleus?	Genes Zone	June 2012
Seyyed Shah	University of Leicester	Working out the structure of proteins	Genes Zone	June 2012
Charlotte Brassey	Natural Environment Research Council	I study the leg bones of living birds and mammals, and then compare them to fossilised bones of dinosaurs and extinct birds. I’m interested in reconstructing how these animals would have stood and moved around on land millions of years ago.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2012
Joanna Cruden	GlaxoSmithKline	My job includes behavioral studies which aim to improve our understanding of laboratory animals and their needs.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2012
Kevin Mahon	University of Lincoln	My work aims to improve the welfare of pet cats and better understand the risks for when they go wandering!	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2012
Louise de Raad	Aberdeen University	I studied baboons and created a so-called social network (as is for example facebook), figuring out who is friends with who and how strong their relationships are with one another.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2012
Valeria Senigaglia	the NGO Physalus	I work with dolphins. I spend 10% of time looking at very cool real dolphins and then I spend the remaining 90% playing with virtual dolphins.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2012
Amy Birch	Imperial College London	I work on Alzheimer’s disease, which affects your memory as you get older. I am interested in finding out how immune cells (they work in your brain by repairing things & tidying up mess) are involved in this disease.	Strontium Zone	June 2012
Jonathan Kay	Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust	I work in a busy hospital laboratory receiving over 10,000 specimens a day, and which runs some big screening programmes.	Pathology Zone	June 2012
Alison Atkin	The University of Sheffield	As a part of my research I study bones and look for changes that tell us lots of things about a person, like did they have big or small muscles (were they active or lazy)! These changes happen to everyone’s bones, including yours! What would your bones say about you?	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Pete Etchells	I’m at the University of Bristol at the moment, in the School of Experimental Psychology.	I’m a Psychologist, and I’m interested in how we use information about the way someone walks in order to figure out what their personality might be like.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
John Dickinson	Liverpool John Moores University	Make athletes perform better by making there lungs work as efficiently as possible	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Elizabeth Scholefield			Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Emilie Crosnier	University of Bath	My research involves developing new testing methods to investigating the stability of the acetabular cup in total hip replacements.	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Fiona McMurray	MRC Harwell and the University of Oxford	I want to find out why some people are more likely to be overweight than others.	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Francesca Ludwinski	Regenerative Medicine Group, School of Biomedicine, University of Manchester	I look into why people develop back pain as they get older and investigating new ways to treat this.	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Gary Brickley	University of Brighton, based in Eastbourne on the South Coast	I’m an exercise physiologist, coaching Paralympic cycling champions and trying to help heart patients reach their potential with hard exercise.	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Gavin Devereux	University Campus Suffolk	I research and teach exercise physiology (how your body works during and after exercise), and focus on the heart and blood vessels (called the cardiovascular system).	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Helen O'Connor	As I’m self employed at the moment I am my own boss (unfortunately I’m quite a tough boss!)	I do a mixture of scientific work (like research and writing) and practical work (using psychology to help people be better at sport or be healthier)	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Luisa Ostertag	University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition & Health, Aberdeen, UK	I am trying to find out if compounds from our diet can affect how sticky (or not) blood platelets are.	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Adam Bibbey	University of Birmingham	I see how the body responds to both exercise and stress; blood pressure, heart rate, hormones- it’s an amazing thing!	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Mark Rakobowchuk	University of Essex (Colchester, Essex)	I try to figure out what enables a blood vessel to get bigger and more useful after training and what happens to your blood vessels when you’re lazy all the time!	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Matt Bridge	University of Birmingham	I’m an applied scientist working in the field with sportsmen and women and educating coaches.	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Miranda Armstrong	University of Oxford	I look at how doing exercise and being active may change the chances of people getting ill or injured	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Peter Voshol	University of Cambridge	A practical experimental combination	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Sarah Hood	Sportscotland Institute of Sport	I help coaches and athletes to understand, observe, identify and develop talented sports people more effectively	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Sarah Hardman	English Institute of Sport	Going out on the river/lake with elite rowers to help find out how they are making the rowing boats go fast	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Sian Lawson	Freelance scientist! Affiliated with one University, lecturing for three others and external examiner (checking the standards) for another.	I work out how things move – from visual effects for films, helping hospitals or the police, to studying animal locomotion, mostly horses but there has been the odd polar bear.	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Derek Ball	Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh)	My work is linked to diet, exercise and health	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Amy Evans	Academic Unit of Bone Metabolism, University of Sheffield	I study how and why heavier people’s bones are different to lighter people’s bones so that we can make treatments to help people avoid breaking their bones	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Alex Ireland	Manchester Metropolitan University	Measuring how big and strong pole-vaulting pensioners, brilliant young tennis players and couch potatoes are, to find out how exercise helps keep us healthy.	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Mark Lewis	Loughborough University	Growing working versions of tissues in the lab and using them to help understand normal and abnormal biology	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Tess Newman	University of Bath	Currently researching for in PhD in tissue engineering – a really exciting area of medical science and engineering with occasional gory bits	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Samantha Wright	University of Bath	Currently researching for a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, which looks at anything which relates engineering to the human body. I’m concentrating on knee replacements though!	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Sam Carr	University of Bath	I am a psychologist and a person who has a strong interest in all kinds of relationships.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Ou Ou			Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Mustafa Sarkar	Loughborough University	My work focuses on how the world’s best athletes, such as Olympic and World champions, thrive under pressure.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Martin Lindley	Loughborough University	An exercise Physiologist with an interest in investigating diet exericise and the lungs.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Mark Uphill	Canterbury Christ Church University	My work focusses athletes’ emotions, the impact of those emotions on performance and the strategies athletes can use to regulate emotions.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Maria Konstantaki	Buckinghamshire New University	Research into sports nutrition	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
clairemarieroberts			Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Lisa Fitzgerald	University of Bath	I develop moving models of human joints to use to test how implants move compared to the natural body.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Katie Skeffington	Cambridge University	I look into how the conditions in the womb affect a baby’s chance of getting heart disease as an adult	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Kate Davies	Tower Cafe and Academic Associate, Cardiff Metropolitan University.	I am hugely passionate about preventing injury, my work aims to understand the dynamics of movement and forces that cause it to aid in this prevention.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Jonathan Robinson	University of Bath : Teambath	Carry out fitness testing and use the reuslts to improve perfomance.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
John Perry	Leeds Trinity University College	I run a sport science with psychology degree at Leeds Trinity University College.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Jemma Ransom	University of Aberdeen	I work mainly with vitamin A (the stuff that makes carrots orange). Did you know that vitamin A is vitally important for your brain? I study how this works	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Faye Didymus	Loughborough University	I use psychological science and apply it to sports. I teach students at Loughborough University and work alongside a number of athletes to try and help them perform as best they can in competitions	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
David Muggeridge	Tiffin Sport Centre, Kingston University	I look at how our body responds when we eat or drink specific foods and how our body responds to reduced levels of oxygen	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Stuart Gray	University of Aberdeen	I investigate ways to make our muscles stronger, hearts healthier and to keep our immune systems in top shape!	Primary 7 - 11 Zone	July 2012
Yue Zheng	University of Cambridge	My mission is to transform scientific discoveries from a laboratory to benefit patients in clinics with immune diseases.	Secondary 11 - 19 Zone	July 2012
Adam Paige	The University of Bedfordshire.	I grow different types of cancer cells in my research lab because I want to understand which genes allow these harmful cancer cells to grow, or protect them from being killed by our medicines.	Genes Zone	November 2012
Robert Insall	Cancer Research UK	I study how cells move – cancer cells, amoeba cells, embryo cells – they’re all interesting.	Cancer Zone	November 2012
Joanna Giles	Cardiff University / Arthritis Research UK	I work on the proteins in the blood (which are encoded in the genes) to see why and how they can be involved in diseases of the immune system, like Arthritis.	Genes Zone	November 2012
Callum Johnston	University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems	I’m trying to grow brain cells in a little dish in the lab and then starve them of air and food to see if we can damage the cells in a way that is similar to brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and stroke.	Cells Zone	November 2012
Marcus Wilson	Cancer Research UK	I look at ‘car crashes’ on DNA – between proteins and DNA damage – and how these are fixed.	Genes Zone	November 2012
Louise Stanley	NHS	I look at genes to find things wrong with them to help diagnose sick people or maybe help to prevent them from getting ill in the future.	Genes Zone	November 2012
Susanne Muekusch	Neurological Institute, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany	I do research on brain cancer cells to understand more about how they grow- which eventually may help to develop new therapies.	Cancer Zone	November 2012
Louise Walkin	University of Manchester	I study cells and tissue from both humans and animals to understand the healing of wounds and cuts to make sure that everyone’s body will heal the way that it should.	Genes Zone	November 2012
Pedro Velica	University College London	I am a immunologist so I study how our immune system fights diseases such as virus, bacteria or cancer.	Cancer Zone	November 2012
Michelle Linterman	University of Cambridge and Churchill College	I work on white blood cells that protect your body from germs, these are the cells of your immune system. I want to know how these cells talk to each other and how that changes what happens during infection.	Cells Zone	November 2012
Mariana Campos	Cancer Research UK	I would love to understand how do the organs of our body know what is the right size.	Cancer Zone	November 2012
Katie Howe	The lab is at University College London	I look at egg cells (which get fertilised by the sperm to make a baby) to see why eggs from older women are more unhealthy – this will help us understand why older women are more likely to have babies with problems like Down’s syndrome.	Cells Zone	November 2012
Gina Tse	University of Leicester/Medical Research Council	I look at cancer cells at a molecular level to understand why cancer spreads; a very big problem for cancer patients.	Cells Zone	November 2012
Sam Godfrey	I work at Imperial College, right in the middle of London next to the natural history museum. Experiment not working? Go look at Dinosaurs.	In my work I am trying to find a way to help the nerve cells in our bodies and brains mend themselves after really bad injury or disease. This could help paralysed people or people with Alzheimer’s disease.	Cells Zone	November 2012
Clare Taylor	Edinburgh Napier University	I’m interested in finding out why bad bacteria cause infections, but importantly to also figure out how we can use our knowledge of bacteria to benefit human health, for example by using bacteria for new medical treatments such as to target and treat cancer.	Cancer Zone	November 2012
Alessandro Guazzi	Oxford University	I try to make equipment that can be used both in and out of hospital to help patients	Digital Zone	March 2013
Norman Lazarus		What are the processes behind ageing	Rhodium Zone	March 2013
Julie Bland	University of Reading	I am a cheese scientist and my work at the moment is to use science to produce a lot of cheese which still tastes good!	Food Science Zone	March 2013
Nik Watson	University of Leeds, School of Food Science and Nutrition, Food Physics group	I study the properties of food and other substances using sound waves.	Food Science Zone	March 2013
Rachel Edwards-Stuart	Westminster Kingsway College	I have always loved food and cooking, and at school I always enjoyed science. When I found out that I could get a job that linked the two it was great!	Food Science Zone	March 2013
Claire Inness	Ogilvy 4D	I’m a medical writer and help pharmaceutical companies tell doctors and patients about drugs and diseases	Drug Development Zone	March 2013
Jack Heal	The University of Warwick	I study how proteins in your body interact with other things such as drugs.	Drug Development Zone	March 2013
Jon Marles-Wright	Edinburgh University	I am a structural biologist looking at how we can get bacteria to make medicines and other useful molecules inside compartments within their cells.	Drug Development Zone	March 2013
Tom Branson	University of Leeds	I work in a lab, sticking protein toxins together using carbohydrates	Drug Development Zone	March 2013
Yalda Javadi	University of Cambridge	I’m a biophysicist and I work in a lab building nanomaterials from designer proteins.	Drug Development Zone	March 2013
James Stovold			Brain Zone	March 2013
Angela Marqui	dot.rural RCUK Digital Economy – University of Aberdeen	I work directly with small companies trying to understand how digital technologies can make their deliveries easier!	Digital Zone	March 2013
Nicola Wardrop	The University of Southampton – in the Geography and Environment department.	I use maps and statistics to look at diseases which spread from cows to people – I look at how the environment impacts on the number of people that get the disease.	Rhodium Zone	March 2013
Emma Ashley	NHS – Royal Berkshire Hospital	I analyse all sorts of different samples (blood, wee, even poo!) to find out what’s wrong with the patients and help in their diagnosis.	Palladium Zone	March 2013
Janet Daly	The University of Nottingham	I study viruses and the effects they have on animals.	Palladium Zone	March 2013
James Holloway	University College London	I am a PhD student who is trying to find a way to make particles (little bits of stuff) go faster than ever before. By smashing particles together really hard we can find out what stuff is made of on the smallest level!	Palladium Zone	March 2013
Niall Crawford	University of Glasgow – but my work is funded by the DFG German research foundation.	I look at the feet of tree frogs, to see how they stick when climbing – it’s pretty cool!	Palladium Zone	March 2013
Simon Park	University of Surrey	I’m a scientist who sudies the bacteria that cause food poisoning, but when I’m not doing this, I champion the planets most important, but often overlooked lifeforms, its bacteria!	Palladium Zone	March 2013
Laura Soul	Department of Earth Sciences at The University of Oxford	I use fossils of ancient animals, from dinosaurs and tigers to seashells and starfish, to understand how extinction and evolution happen.	Rhodium Zone	March 2013
Susanna Martin			Brain Zone	March 2013
Claudia Krehl	The University of Nottingham	My work is all about making technology easy to use and more accessible for people – so I am asking: What can technology do for us.	Digital Zone	March 2013
Michael Craig			Brain Zone	March 2013
Jen Todd Jones			Brain Zone	March 2013
Thanasis Georgiou		I stack the thinnest materials in the world and make flexible and transparent electronic devices!	Rhodium Zone	March 2013
Ben Brilot			Brain Zone	March 2013
Phillip Wilkinson	Center for Digital Entertainment @ Bournemouth and Bath Universities	Using psychology I am developing fun digital games that make people happier, more empathetic and improves their social skills	Digital Zone	March 2013
Marina De Vos	University of Bath	I work as a computer scientist to let programs make decisions on their own, so they can compose music, assist us in our daily lives or preserve buildings after earthquakes.	Digital Zone	March 2013
Sandra Richards	Oxford University NHS Trust	I chop up body parts. I also look at cervical cells under the microscope to see if a woman’s cervix is healthy or not. I also spin lots of wee	Rhodium Zone	March 2013
Martin Archer	Imperial College London	Earth has a magnetic shield against the solar wind (hot gas that streams off the Sun) but this shield isn’t perfect, so I look at how things can get through and what the impact on us is.	Space Zone	March 2013
Edward Bovill	University of Sheffield	I make and test new types of solar panels based on special plastics in a ultra-clean laboratory.	Ruthenium Zone	March 2013
Usman Kayani	Kings College London	I get to battle the beasts that are black holes, trying to understand their mysterious properties and what they look like in terms of their geometry near the horizon (the point of no return).	Space Zone	March 2013
Hayley Evers-King	University of Cape Town, South Africa	I use satellites in space to look at the colour of the ocean. This can tell us what lives in it!	Ruthenium Zone	March 2013
Stefan Piatek	I’m at Imperial College London but funded by MRC & Asthma UK Centre	I grow human lung cells and work out how their machinery might help to treat asthma.	Health Zone	March 2013
Phil Rice	St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust	I work as a detective trying to find out what infection a patient has and then trying to stop other people getting it.	Health Zone	March 2013
Melissa Brereton	University of Oxford	I play with mice who have lots of sugar in their blood and make them better by giving them a little tablet!	Health Zone	March 2013
Jill Magee	NHS	I perform a variety of tests and experiments on equipment used to image the body	Health Zone	March 2013
Jennifer Paxton	I am employed at the University of Birmingham, but I am funded by Orthopaedic Research UK, which is a charity that pays for research projects to do with the bones, muscles and tendons in the body.	I’m a tissue engineer, which means that I’m trying to find ways to grow bits of the body in the lab so we can replace diseased or damaged organs in people and make them well again!	Health Zone	March 2013
Leila Nichol	NHS – Royal Surrey County Hospital	I zap deadly cancer cells with radiation	Medical Physics Zone	March 2013
Jim O Doherty	King’s College London	I’m responsible for research into new radioactive drugs for finding and treating cancer and making sure our scanners work OK every day	Medical Physics Zone	March 2013
Frank Soboczenski	The University of York	I focus on Human-Computer Interaction with the spotlight on medical devices. I run a lot of studies where I let people work with different interfaces to discover what errors they make.	Medical Physics Zone	March 2013
Dhvanil Karia	University of Liverpool and Clatterbridge Cancer Center	I try to make mathematical models which predict how cancer tissue respond to high energy X-ray beams	Medical Physics Zone	March 2013
Charlotte Kemp	James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, South Tees NHS Foundation Trust	I specialise in the area of clinical measurement and my work involves making measurements on patients; problem solving; building, testing and using systems in the hospital to improve patient care.	Medical Physics Zone	March 2013
Duncan Gaskin	The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council	I’m a lab based scientist trying to work out how some of the nastiest bugs do their thing.	Food Science Zone	March 2013
Shawn Domagal-Goldman	The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	I look for ways to look for alien life!	Space Zone	March 2013
Glyn Barrett	Rothamsted Research	I want to find out how really dangerous bacteria live inside plants.	Technetium Zone	March 2013
Grant Campbell	School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester	I am an academic at a top university; this means I “do” higher education, which means expanding knowledge by doing research (expanding the amount of what is known) and by educating students (increasing the amount and quality of knowledge held by individuals), in the area of chemical engineering including food processing.	Food Science Zone	March 2013
Nathan Green	Health Protection Agency	My favourite thing is to discover something new and unexpected	Ruthenium Zone	March 2013
Sophie Holles	University of Bristol	I play man-made noises (like boats and ships) to fish and sea slugs with underwater speakers to see how they react and whether they can cope with all the noise humans make underwater	Ruthenium Zone	March 2013
Debbie Crockard	I work for the Marine Conservation Society – an environmental charity.	I love the sea and eating seafood so can’t imagine doing anything else.	Technetium Zone	March 2013
Jason King	Cancer Research UK	I’m trying to figure out what keeps the cells in your body healthy, and stops them wearing out.	Ruthenium Zone	March 2013
Jonathan Stone	University of East Anglia/ British Geological Survey	I am a volcanologist and I get people living near to volcanoes to monitor them, often using some cool/innovative methods, so that they can make their towns/villages safer.	Technetium Zone	March 2013
Nicola Fletcher	The University of Birmingham	I work with Hepatitis C virus to find out how it infects the liver and brain.	Technetium Zone	March 2013
Amy Tyndall	The European Southern Observatory, ESO (http://www.eso.org) – home of the VLT (Very Large Telescope!)	I look at what happens when two stars orbiting each other in a ‘binary system’ start to evolve and die, to create a beautiful space-cloud called a ‘planetary nebula’.	Space Zone	March 2013
Grant Kennedy	University of Cambridge	I work on the asteroids, comets, and planets around other stars, so other Solar Systems like our own.	Space Zone	March 2013
Kathryn McMahon	The University of Leeds	I work on how cancers use blood vessels to help them grow and spread.	Technetium Zone	March 2013
Steven Gardner	Cardiff University	I’m finding out what makes your cornea transparent, and why diseases sometimes makes it go cloudy.	Indium Zone	June 2013
Colin Dick	Lotus F1 Team	I try to find the best shapes for the wings so that the F1 car goes faster around the track.	Indium Zone	June 2013
Jess Bean	University of Bath	Working at the middle point between biology and chemistry to find some new ways to kill bacteria.	Indium Zone	June 2013
Samaneh Maysami			Indium Zone	June 2013
Christian Maerz	I am working at the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, which is part of Newcastle University.	I am a marine geoscientist trying to reconstruct past environmental and climate conditions from marine mud.	Earth Zone	June 2013
Claire Vinten	University of Nottingham	When I’m not being a vet (treating dogs and cats), I teach at a university and do research on my students!	Xenon Zone	June 2013
Elizabeth Ratcliffe	Loughborough University	I use robots to grow cells and tissues that can repair, restore and heal the body. To learn how we can safely make new and improved medicines for incurable diseases. Taking inspiration from Dr Who’s ability to regenerate!	Xenon Zone	June 2013
Manolis Rovilos	University of Durham	I study how the black holes in the centres of galaxies affect their evolution.	Xenon Zone	June 2013
Mark Wallace	Oxford University.	I shoot lasers down microscopes to see individual biological molecules moving about so I can figure out how they work.	Xenon Zone	June 2013
Mark Hodson	I’m employed by the University of York	I do a lot of work with earthworms, currently I’m trying to find out if they can save us from global warming, what they can tell us about past climates, how they survive in poisonous soil and how they can help us design invisibility cloaks	Tin Zone	June 2013
Zach Dixon	My project is funded by Cancer Research UK.	I am looking for a way to kill blood cancer.	Xenon Zone	June 2013
Christina Pagel	University College London (UCL)	Using maths to help doctors understand more about what happens to patients.	Indium Zone	June 2013
Colin Swift	NHS	Preventing accidents due to radiation, particularly lasers.	Antimony Zone	June 2013
Jono Bone	University College London	I study human behaviour, specifically why and how we have evolved to help each other out and work together as a team.	Tin Zone	June 2013
Ian Wilson	University of Liverpool	I’m in the third year of my PhD, finding out what weapons and defences a really nasty killer microbe has so that people can work out how to fight it.	Tin Zone	June 2013
Hannah Brotherton	University of Manchester	To investigate how and where the brain creates a sound known as “ringing in the ears”……and find a cure 😀	Tin Zone	June 2013
Daniela Plana	I work in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol	I combine electricity and chemistry to do different things like: clean up contaminated water, transform greenhouse gases into useful things or put metals on different things	Tin Zone	June 2013
Rick Smith	The University of Sheffield	Somewhere between Physics, Chemistry and nanoengineering, trying to improve LEDs using the science at the smallest scale.	Antimony Zone	June 2013
Charlotte Dalton	The University of Manchester	I make sugar molecules similar to ones in your body, and study how they interact with proteins during cancer to help develop new medicines.	Antimony Zone	June 2013
Catherine Fontinelle	NHS	My work smells really bad, but everyday I help make someone better.	Antimony Zone	June 2013
Rebecca Scott	KU Leuven	I shoot X-rays and lasers at really old objects, like Egyptian glass or Roman pottery, to see how, where and what they were made from.	Antimony Zone	June 2013
Ian Hands-Portman	University of Warwick – School of Life Sciences	I run huge microscopes and teach other people how to use them.	Lanthanum Zone	June 2013
Jess Smith	Oxford University	I work in bio-medical materials, this is where we look at everything from how to design new drugs, to the tools that surgeons use.	Lanthanum Zone	June 2013
Lewis Dean	University of St Andrews	I investigate the behaviour of our closest living relatives – apes and monkeys.	Lanthanum Zone	June 2013
Divya Venkatesh	University of Cambridge	I study a parasite called the Trypanosome – a beauiful single-celled monster.	Lanthanum Zone	June 2013
Clare Nevin	Manchester Metropolitan University	I investigate how diet, exercise, smoking, weight and environmental toxins affect human sperm function	Lanthanum Zone	June 2013
Hannah Bentham	University of Leeds	I’m a passionate geo-nerd who likes looking at the energy from earthquakes to look for ancient ocean floors and volcanoes.	Earth Zone	June 2013
Hannah Little	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	I investigate the evolution of structure in human speech using artificial language learning experiments.	Cadmium Zone	June 2013
Suzanne Harvey	University College London	My research is on the evolution of language, which often involves following baboons around the forest with a microphone…	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2013
Katie Greenhalgh	University of Leeds	I look at how the blood in our body clots when we cut ourselves and stops us bleeding too much.	Blood Zone	June 2013
Sadaf Saad Anjum	Cranfield University	I am lucky to have same “passion”, “hobby” and “work”.	Blood Zone	June 2013
Claire El Mouden	Oxford University	I try to figure out what makes humans different from other animals	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2013
Joanna Bryson	University of Bath	I study natural and artificial intelligence, by making scientific AI models of real animal behaviour.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2013
Kapila Ponnamperuma	University of Aberdeen	I use computer models to turn data into text.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2013
Renata Medeiros	Cardiff University	I study seabirds so I spend a lot of my time on desert islands often collecting birds’ vomit and droppings (sounds nice doesn’t it?).	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2013
Vince Hall	University of Warwick	A PhD student, I’m doing a project in intelligent systems (computer programs), and protein chemistry to help people who design new medicines.	Cadmium Zone	June 2013
Cheyanne Box	NHS	I Investigate how people get illnesses and diseases from the blood doctors and surgeons send to our laboratory.	Blood Zone	June 2013
Alberto Lapedriza	University of Bath, Department of Biology and Biochemistry	I’m trying to understand how the pigment cells that give colour to our skin, called melanocytes, develop from an embryo formed by the fusion of a sperm cell from your father and an egg cell from your mother, using a small fish called “zebrafish”.	Reproduction Zone	June 2013
Gopal Ramchurn	University of Southampton	I invent Apps that help humans, computers and robots work better together	Cadmium Zone	June 2013
Rebecca Cook	University College London	I grow cancer cells in dishes to learn about how they behave.	Cadmium Zone	June 2013
Angela Hackett	University of Liverpool	I put lung cells in an acidic environment and try to find out how they react to this stress	Cadmium Zone	June 2013
Alexander Munnoch	The University of Glasgow and BP Chemicals Ltd.	I make minerals (rocks) useful – industrial chemistry.	New Materials Zone	June 2013
Josh Makepeace	University of Oxford	I’m trying to help make ‘green’ cars a reality by making and testing materials that store hydrogen – making the fuel tank for a car that runs on hydrogen.	New Materials Zone	June 2013
Aikaterini Tsaousi	The University of Bristol	Looking at how certain cells of our immune system may influence the hardening of blood vessels	Blood Zone	June 2013
Andrew Swale	Royal Liverpool University Hospital	My work involves blood and faeces of patients suffering from severe diarrhoea due to infection with the hospital superbug C. Diff	Blood Zone	June 2013
Simone Sturniolo	STFC	I am part of a group of researchers working with computers: we run simulations to predict the ‘big’ qualities of new, and often odd, materials (like color, electrical conductivity, magnetism) starting from their ‘small’ structure – atoms and subatomic particles!	New Materials Zone	June 2013
Alexis Barr	The Institute of Cancer Research in London	I study how cancer cells reproduce to try and find ways of killing them.	Cells Zone	June 2013
Jennie Douthwaite	Help run a Masters course in Reproduction and Development	Research, lab work and teaching	Reproduction Zone	June 2013
Michelle Taylor	University of Exeter	I am interested in evolution and behaviour – I study how animals live and reproduce and adapt to the world around them	Reproduction Zone	June 2013
David Briggs	The University of Manchester, funded by Arthritis Research UK.	I’m trying to figure out how and why we get Arthritis.	Crystallography Zone	June 2013
Ed Lowe	University of Oxford Biochemistry Dept.	I use a synchrotron like a giant microscope to take a close look at the building blocks of life.	Crystallography Zone	June 2013
Sam Horrell	The Univeristy of Liverpool/ Diamond light Soruce	I produce protein samples for structural analysis, focusing on the use of long wavelength X-rays to generate 3D models of proteins.	Crystallography Zone	June 2013
Susana Teixeira	Keele University (UK) & Institut Laue Langevin (France)	I use crystals as an amplifier – they shout out their atomic secrets to me.	Crystallography Zone	June 2013
Chris Mansell	The Open University.	I am trying to build a really fast computer known as a “quantum computer” out of laser beams and a few extremely cold atoms.	Quantum Zone	June 2013
Mario Ruiz	University College London	I’m trying to find out why cells become crazy and start dividing uncontrollably, creating tumours and cancer	Cells Zone	June 2013
Dave Farmer	The University of Nottingham	I’m a PhD student who studies what happens when you vibrate long, chain like molecules called polymers.	Quantum Zone	June 2013
David Freeborn	University College London	I smash atoms into each other to find out what they’re made from.	Quantum Zone	June 2013
Fiona Coomer	University of Strathclyde, Glasgow	Making magnets with some really unusual properties.	Quantum Zone	June 2013
Jack Miller	Departments of Physics, Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, Radiation Oncology Biology and the Doctoral Training Centre, University of Oxford	I use quantum mechanics to (try and) spot cancers in the brain before doctors can!	Quantum Zone	June 2013
Andrew Devitt	Aston University	I try to understand how our bodies deal with the constant death of cells.	Cells Zone	June 2013
Helen Tunbridge	The University of Bristol, but I work in two labs.One belonging to Christoph Wuelfing and the other to David Wraith.	I study how cells talk to themselves by taking pictures and making movies of what happens inside them after they touch another cell.	Cells Zone	June 2013
Jasmine Penny	University of Nottingham. My PhD is funded by the EPSRC and the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition.	I look at the behaviour of a dog cell type, when grown in the lab, in order to better understand how joint disease can be treated.	Cells Zone	June 2013
Serena Corr	University of Glasgow	I’m a lecturer in Physical Chemistry and my research looks at the chemistry and physics of small materials.	New Materials Zone	June 2013
Stuart Archer	University of Sheffield	I create artificial leaves that use sunlight to make hydrogen – a super explosive gas packed with energy that could power the cars of the future!	New Materials Zone	June 2013
Chris Whittle	University of Manchester	Why does diabetes mean that women have much bigger babies?	Reproduction Zone	June 2013
Laura Roberts Artal	University of Liverpool	I study some of the very oldest rocks in the world!	Earth Zone	June 2013
Chia-Yu Lin	University of Cambridge	I am interested in doing some chemistry using carbon dioxide, sunlight and water to make “energy” to drive automobiles.	Energy Zone	June 2013
Helen Pritchard-Smith	University of Bristol	I use carbon dioxide that would otherwise be polluting the atmosphere and turn it into a useful material like plastic	Energy Zone	June 2013
Matt Carnie	Swansea University	A maniac madly manufacturing miniature solar cells.	Energy Zone	June 2013
Matthew Hudson	Shell	I use chemistry to design and develop engine oils for airplanes – Everything from light aircraft to fighter jets!	Energy Zone	June 2013
Rhodri Jenkins	University of Bath	I study microbial products, to see if they could be used as fuel for cars and planes	Energy Zone	June 2013
Angus Ferraro	Department of Meteorology, University of Reading	I’m trying to work out whether using an artificial volcano to stop global warming is a good idea.	Earth Zone	June 2013
Simon Holyoake	British Geologial Survey	I am an electronics engineer, and I support scientific research by providing specialist engineering skills, developing instruments, experimental rigs and other hardware	Earth Zone	June 2013
Robert Woolfson	The University of Manchester and NOWNano DTC	I make very special kinds of molecules that might help us make completely new types of computers	Extreme Speed Zone	June 2013
Katy Brown	University of Nottingham	I use computers to find ancient viruses which infected primates millions of years ago.	Disease Zone	June 2013
Benjamin Hall	John Innes Centre	I study a microorganism that infects, and totally destroys, potato and tomato plants.	Crystallography Zone	June 2013
Ruth Mitchell	University of Bristol	I’m a PhD student in immunology – the body’s first defence against any invading forces!	Disease Zone	June 2013
Peter Balfe	University of Birmingham, College of Medical and Dental Sciences	Working towards a cure for chronic HCV disease,- we’re getting there! See here for details : http://www.hcvpi.bham.ac.uk	Disease Zone	June 2013
Paul Waines	Plymouth University	I am a microbiologist who is interested in how dangerous bacteria survive in aquatic environments (water)	Disease Zone	June 2013
Ee Lyn Lim	Babraham Institute, Cambridge	I’m trying to find out why the battle between cancer and our immune system is so one-sided – what can we do to help our body’s army win?	Disease Zone	June 2013
Sam Geen	The Observatoire de Lyon. Well, technically the French Atomic Agency. Well, technically the European Union. Academic funding is weird.	I run computer simulations on supercomputers of the gas inside galaxies to try to understand how stars and galaxies are made.	Extreme Speed Zone	June 2013
Matthew Pankhurst	The University of Leeds, UK	I’m 28 and have just finished my PhD, right now I study what goes on inside and underneath volcanoes – which is awesome!	Extreme Speed Zone	June 2013
Alan Richardson	University of Brighton	Much of my research looks at how and why people tolerate extreme environments such as heat, cold and hypoxia (altitude).	Human Limits Zone	June 2013
Elaine Marshall	University of Edinburgh	I try to understand how a cell regulates expression from its genetic material (DNA). I am trying to understand why, when this process goes wrong this sometimes lead to disease or abnormalities.	Hormones Zone	June 2013
Damian Bailey	University of South Wales (formerly known as the University of Glamorgan)	Understanding the limits of human exercise performance (how high we can climb, how deep we can dive, how fast we can run) by determining how we can get more oxygen to our brains!	Human Limits Zone	June 2013
Emma Ross	The University of Brighton	I am an exercise physiologist, which means I study how the human body works when we do physical activity. I am particularly interested in how the human brain works when we have to perform in extreme environments such as high heat or high altitude.	Human Limits Zone	June 2013
Liam Bagley	Manchester Metropolitan University	I give people very hard exercise to do and see how they improve to become fitter, leaner and healthier.	Human Limits Zone	June 2013
Luca Angius			Human Limits Zone	June 2013
Olabimpe Okosun	University of Pretoria, South Africa	To understand communication in honeybee and preventing honeybee colony loss	Hormones Zone	June 2013
Derek Ball	Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh)	I am interested in how fat cells work	Hormones Zone	June 2013
Sarah-Jane Walsh	University of Essex	I identify super coral reef species that are resiliant to climate change	Silver Zone	June 2013
Kate Husband	University of Bristol	I am searching for groups of really distant galaxies.	Extreme Speed Zone	June 2013
Ravi Kopparapu	Pennsylvania State University	Finding Earth-like planets with life on them.	Silver Zone	June 2013
Kinda Al-Hourani	University of Oxford.	I look at how our cells zap invading viruses!	Silver Zone	June 2013
Jane Paget	University of Aberdeen	I am a researcher in Microbiology	Silver Zone	June 2013
Andrew Manches	University of Edinburgh	I look at how children use technology to see if it changes how they learn	Silver Zone	June 2013
Heather Eyre	University of Manchester	Steak and kidney pudding, without the steak or the pudding.	Hormones Zone	June 2013
Keith Siew	I’m funded by the British Heart Foundation and working toward my PhD in medicine at University of Cambridge	I explore how the kidneys control blood pressure by altering the salt and water content of our bodies	Hormones Zone	June 2013
Claire Lee	University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and Academia Sinica (Taiwan)	I’m a student on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, where we smash together some of the smallest things in the universe just to see what happens.	Extreme Speed Zone	June 2013
Emmanuel Amabebe	University of Sheffield, UK	I am a PhD research student working on a Preterm birth prediction study	Reproduction Zone	June 2013
Tomasz Kostrzewski	Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Imperial College London	I study how the different cells of your immune system are made by stem cells in your bone marrow	Stem Cells Zone	November 2013
Louise Brown	Northumbria University	I work with breast cancer cells to see why they turn cancerous.	Iodine Zone	November 2013
Zachary Williamson	Oxford University	I research at an atom smasher in Japan	Particle Physics Zone	November 2013
Venus Keus	University of Southampton	Trying to find a relation between what happens to tiny things, what happens to huge things and what hapens to fast things	Particle Physics Zone	November 2013
Tim Hollowood	Swansea University	I try to find out how the universe works at the most basic level	Particle Physics Zone	November 2013
Kristian Harder	Science and Technology Facilities Council.	I work with the largest machine that mankind has ever built, but most of the day I just sit in front of a computer and wonder why my software isn’t working.	Particle Physics Zone	November 2013
Joel Goldstein	University of Bristol	I search through the results of trillions of particle collisions, trying to find the unexpected.	Particle Physics Zone	November 2013
Antoine Buchard	The University of Bath	In my lab, I take small molecules that no one wants like carbon dioxide or sugars from food wastes, and I transform them into long chain molecules that are used to make degradable plastics.	Tellurium Zone	November 2013
Daniel Patten	University of Birmingham	I’m trying to find out what role the protein CLEVER-1 plays in liver disease.	Tellurium Zone	November 2013
James Hickey	The University of Bristol	I’m a volcano doctor – by taking a volcano’s pulse I try to find out if it’s going to vomit lava or explode with gas!	Tellurium Zone	November 2013
Julie Speakman	Derby Hospital	I like my job because I get to do geeky science stuff like testing big equipment but also talk to people who are ill and help them with their treatment.	Tellurium Zone	November 2013
Saima Rehman	Medical Research Council	To fight against diseases by finding “tiny but very powerful weapons present in germs”.	Tellurium Zone	November 2013
Anzy Miller	University of Cambridge	I’m trying to understand how the cells in an fertilised egg know they need to make different types of cells (e.g. brain and blood cells) so the egg goes on to form a baby.	Stem Cells Zone	November 2013
Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan	University of Cambridge	I work as a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Cambridge and try to figure out how the cells in a fertilised embryo grow and develop into fully formed beings!	Stem Cells Zone	November 2013
David Christensen	University of Southampton	I’m looking at how stem cells control how much sugar they eat.	Stem Cells Zone	November 2013
Dilwar Hussain	The University of Sheffield	I look at ways to increase the safety of nuclear reactors	Iodine Zone	November 2013
Matthew Tomlinson	University of Leeds	I take stem cells from teeth and turn them into bone	Stem Cells Zone	November 2013
Rachel Dakin	University of Glasgow	I work with viruses; but instead of making you ill I want to use them to make you better	Iodine Zone	November 2013
Marlene Lorgen	University of Aberdeen	Discovering how Atlantic salmon tell the time.	Genes Zone	November 2013
Thomas Doherty-Bone	University of Leeds	Aliens in our water – I look at how introduced crayfish, crabs, newts, plants, microbes affect rivers, lakes and ponds – should we worry?	Ecology Zone	November 2013
Sofia Franco	Newcastle University and University of Évora	I am a marine biologist and I try to learn how to make marine creatures happy 😉 now I work with stalked barnacles called Pollicipes! Check them out!	Ecology Zone	November 2013
Karen Bacon	School of Geography, University of Leeds	I use fossil leaves to investigate climate change millions of years ago	Ecology Zone	November 2013
Greg Dash	Aberystwyth University	researching what people think about renewable energy	Ecology Zone	November 2013
Cassandra Raby	University of Liverpool and Institute of Zoology	I’m a biologist looking at disease in baboons and other wild animals!	Ecology Zone	November 2013
Simon Langley-Evans	The University of Nottingham	I’m the old crumbly in the Iodine Zone. I am interested in how the food our mothers ate before we were born sets us up for disease as we get older.	Iodine Zone	November 2013
Sarah Tesh	University of Bristol	I am making a new material out of particles so small they basically have superpowers and then using that material to remove everything dangerous in water and save the world (well…at least save a lot of lives, if not the world).	Extreme Clean Zone	November 2013
Nicci Potts	The Open University/ Vrije University Amsterdam	Play with rocks from the Moon!	Extreme Clean Zone	November 2013
Jessica Liley	University of Oxford	I’m figuring out how to make our washing powder more environmentally-friendly, using things that come from yeast and even deadly bacteria!	Extreme Clean Zone	November 2013
James King	Oxford University	I study dust storms around the world by travelling to remote arid regions to better understand how dust affects past, present, and future climate.	Extreme Clean Zone	November 2013
Ivan Campeotto	Imperial College London	I use X-rays to discover cool structures and design new medicines	Extreme Clean Zone	November 2013
Werner Muller	University of Manchester	I am trying to understand how inflammation starts and how it is resolved.	Genes Zone	November 2013
Nick Groves-Kirkby	Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford	I look at how genes cause differences between people, and between humans and other species.	Genes Zone	November 2013
Vicky Forster	Newcastle University	Cancer research scientist	Genes Zone	November 2013
Carla Turner	University Of Sheffield	Changing the genes in plants to make them more (or less) drought tolerant!	Genes Zone	November 2013
Susan Skelton	Osaka University in Japan	I use powerful light beams to explore the world on the smallest scale.	Iodine Zone	November 2013
Karolina Chocian	University of Oxford	I look at worms that are getting old, a lot.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Amanda Carr	University College London	I make stem cells from your skin and turn them into eye cells	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Andrew Beale	The Royal Institution	I’m helping figure out good explanations for topics in this year’s lectures	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Anita Hall	Imperial College London	I am interested in how the brain develops and how it changes when we’re old.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Becky Cook	University College London	I grow cancer cells in dishes to learn about how they behave.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Lynne Cox	University of Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford	My lab works on understanding the molecular basis of ageing.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Constanze Ochmann		I am a molecular biologist with a hint of biochemistry	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Leila Abbas	University of Sheffield.	I’m working on new treatments for deafness using embryonic stem cells.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Kara Cerveny		I study how eyes grow and develop in zebrafish with the hope of understanding the mechanisms that regulate stem cell proliferation. neural stem cells	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Jennifer Tullet	Institute of Healthy Ageing at University College London	I try to make worms live longer by changing their genetic makeup or environment.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
David Christensen	University of Southampton	I’m looking at how stem cells control how much sugar they eat.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
David Bowkett	I work in the lab of Dr. Paul Brennan, at the Structural Genomics Consortium (an organistaion that is part of the University of Oxford).	I’m trying to find new ways that drugs can effect the body.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Gail Cardew			Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Gemma Swiers	University of Oxford	I am trying to work out how a blood stem cell is made, where it is made and how it knows to be a blood stem cell.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Haihan Tan		I look at how cells know that they should be part of the heart, and not another part of the body.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
John Robert Davis	King’s College London	I love nature, it amazes me, but it also makes me ask questions such as why do sheep always look like sheep?	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Hayley Lees	Drs Alison Woollard and Lynne Cox	I’m trying to find out what makes us all age	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Olympia Brown			Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Jean-Paul Vincent	Medical Research Council	I study how cells communicate with each other	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Matthew Tomlinson	University of Leeds School of Dentistry	I take stem cells from teeth and turn them into bone.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Serena Ding	University of Oxford’s Biochemistry Department	I study stem-like cell divisions in the nematode worm C. elegans	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Penelope Mason		Research into how we age and whether we can age better	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Samantha Hughes	Oxford University	Most days I poke worms to see if they are alive, feed them and maybe look at their cells under a microscope	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Sara Maxwell	University of Oxford	It can be interesting and full of variety.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Simon Butt	University of Oxford	Research into normal and dysfunctional brain development	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Stefan Piatek	I’m at Imperial College London but funded by MRC & Asthma UK Centre	I grow human lung cells and work out how their machinery might help to treat asthma.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Thomas Butts	King’s College, London	I work on the evolutionary history and developmental origin of neurons.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Vicky Forster	Newcastle University	Cancer research scientist	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Rachael Inglis		I’m trying to understand how fish tell their left from their right.	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Alison Woollard	The University of Oxford	I’m a university lecturer in genetics, working on the developmental genetics of the nematode worm C. elegans	Christmas Lectures 2013	December 2013
Emilie Combet			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Ashley - Character			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Ask Sam			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Boatemaa Ofori-Frimpong			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Diabetes UK			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Sarah Jose			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Emma Solomon			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Jean Adams			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Ruby - Character			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Simon Langley-Evans			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Susanna - Character			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Xavier - Character			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Liz Wells			Hungry Zone	January 2014
Matthew Malek	Imperial College London (High Energy Physics group)	I hunt subatomic ghosts. These ghosts hold the answers to some of the biggest questions in the universe. So they’re awfully hard to catch… but it’s worth the chase!	Light Zone	March 2014
Juan Carlos Lopez-Baez	The Medical Research Council and the University of Edinburgh	It is a love-hate relationship 🙂	Caesium Zone	March 2014
Becky Martin	University of Southampton	I create models to show where vulnerable people are, which help to improve our understanding of the impacts of both historical and potential nuclear and radiation catastrophes!	Nuclear Zone	March 2014
Eleanor Parker	Queen Mary University of London and University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur	I take cells from cartilage in the knees of cows and try to find out they recognise and respond to different signals, like what they do when we run up stairs or what happens to them when we get old.	Cerium Zone	March 2014
Aled Roberts	University of Nottingham	I look at hospital superbugs and try to find out how we can kill them using a special type of honey!	Cerium Zone	March 2014
Roy Adkin	The Open University, (Funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC))	I’m an organic chemist using fluorescent lanthanide organic ligand complexes to study organic compounds in meteorites. It sounds a lot more complicated than it is! I’m happy to explain all about it, just ask! 🙂	Colour Zone	March 2014
Thomas Elias Cocolios	The University of Manchester	I shine lasers at radioactive stuff at CERN to check their potato-like form and understand where the elements in the universe come from.	Nuclear Zone	March 2014
Simon Albright	University of Huddersfield	I’m trying to find the best way of using neutrons to look inside containers and find drugs, bombs and illegal goods.	Nuclear Zone	March 2014
Daniel Roach	University of Salford	I ring teeny, tiny ‘bells’ (crystals and molecules) with neutrons; the ‘sound’ they produce tells me what the atoms are doing, and that is sometimes very strange things.	Nuclear Zone	March 2014
Clara Nellist	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research)	I design and test pixel detectors (like those in your digital camera) for the ATLAS detector at CERN and I also study what happens when a Higgs boson turns into taus (heavier versions of electrons).	Nuclear Zone	March 2014
Muhammed Rassul		PhD in imaging in Neuroscience	Organs Zone	March 2014
Kevin Arbuckle	University of Liverpool	I’m really just a big kid – growing up with an interest in animals and natural history and now being paid to study it!	Cerium Zone	March 2014
Krishna Mohan Surapaneni	Saveetha Medical College & Hospital, Saveetha University	I am a teacher and researcher, teaching biochemistry to medical students, doing research on liver diseases in people who do not take any alcohol or little alcohol	Organs Zone	March 2014
John Foster	Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London	Making sense of how normal cells of the lung are transformed into cancer to find new treatments and improve current ones	Organs Zone	March 2014
Adelle Thrower	Unilabs IHS	I get bits of people, cut them up, look at them under the microscope and we will get a diagnosis of the disease.	Organs Zone	March 2014
Catherine Mansfield	Imperial College London	I am looking for new ways to treat heart diseases	Organs Zone	March 2014
Sarah Harvey	University of Warwick	Like us, plant have immune systems and I work on understanding these so we can make healthy plants!	Plants Zone	March 2014
Michael Graham	University of Aberdeen	I look at all the chemicals in Scottish plants, to see if they are good to eat.	Plants Zone	March 2014
Joe Sweeney	University of Huddersfield	I try to invent new ways to make useful things	Caesium Zone	March 2014
Fiona Heesen	University of Aberdeen	I try to find out why our small communities in the countryside need and use the Internet.	Cerium Zone	March 2014
Nick Wright	University of Hertfordshire	I want to understand how stars are born and how they die	Extreme Size Zone	March 2014
Amelia Frizell-Armitage	The University of East Anglia and the John Innes Centre	I work with wheat, an important crop plant that is used to make bread and pasta.	Plants Zone	March 2014
Willem Heijltjes	The University of Bath, since 2012	I am making computers smarter and faster by making them think in pictures, instead of words.	Cerium Zone	March 2014
Kate Salmon	Open University	I look at how climate change is affecting the biology of the oceans	Caesium Zone	March 2014
Rory Miles	Public Health England	Making tests to find out if people are infected with nasty diseases	Caesium Zone	March 2014
Matthew Lam	Breakthrough Breast Cancer	I help to manage all the breast cancer research funded by the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer	Cancer Zone	March 2014
Leah Fitzsimmons	Birmingham University	I’m interested in how viruses can cause cancer, so I compare infected and unifected cancer cells to look for differences.	Cancer Zone	March 2014
Andrea Hanvey	Wye Valley NHS Trust	The Histopathology laboratory looks at cells from tissues and organs to diagnose diseases including cancer	Cancer Zone	March 2014
Anastasia Wass	University of Reading	I force cancer cells to evolve to try and work out how they become deadly.	Cancer Zone	March 2014
Amar Joshi	University of Leicester – Cancer Research funded	I’m helping to find a drug for a currently untreatable cancer.	Cancer Zone	March 2014
Alan Fitzsimmons	Queen’s University Belfast	I study comets and asteroids orbiting our Sun, including some that can hit us.	Extreme Size Zone	March 2014
Mark Jackson	African Institute for Mathematical Sciences.	I research how the most fundamental laws of physics affect the Universe as a whole.	Light Zone	March 2014
Deepak Kar	University of Glasgow	I use the data from the largest “science” machine ever built to learn about the tiniest of the particles!	Extreme Size Zone	March 2014
Francesca Day	University of Oxford	I look for signs of particles falling to Earth from space.	Extreme Size Zone	March 2014
Lilian Hunt	The MRC – National Institute for Medical Research	I look in the gaps between genes in DNA for something new and interesting…	Extreme Size Zone	March 2014
Sabina Hatch	University College London	I can use single atoms to make nanowires which are 1000x thinner than your hair! These are used to make devices that either create electricity from light (solar cells) or use electricity to make light (light-emmiting diodes, LEDs).	Light Zone	March 2014
Paul Coxon	University of Cambridge	I’m investigating new nanomaterials to help make solar cells more efficient and cheaper to produce.	Light Zone	March 2014
Mike Lee	University of Glasgow	Running late, but looking great.	Light Zone	March 2014
Rosie Coates	University of Liverpool	There are bacteria living all over the surface of your skin. I try to find out how this bacteria manages to survive somewhere so difficult.	Caesium Zone	March 2014
Clemence Bonnot	Department of Plant sciences at Oxford University (UK)	I am a kind of plant genealogist, I am studying how the seaweed ancester of Land plant have adapted to life on land.	Plants Zone	March 2014
Isabel Webb	The John Innes Centre, Norwich	I am trying to understand the bacteria that live inside roots of peas and convert gases from the air into food for the plant	Plants Zone	March 2014
Rowena Fletcher-Wood	University of Birmingham	I use gamma rays to test recycling materials that are sensitive to heat and air, changing their colour and chemistry.	Colour Zone	March 2014
Kieren Bradley	University of Bristol	I grow carpets of zinc oxide, 1000s of times smaller than hairs and measure how they absorb light and give off electricity.	Colour Zone	March 2014
Kate Nicholson	Durham University and The Open University	Looking at molecules and how they’re packed using the light we can see and the light beyond that part of the spectrum.	Colour Zone	March 2014
Nick Goldman	European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge	We study the differences in the genomes DNA of living organisms, to work out how they are all related by evolution and to understand what the different bits do.	ComputationalBio Zone	March 2014
Jane Charlesworth	University of Oxford	I’m looking for gene differences in DNA taken from Staphyloccus aureus bacteria (like the one in my picture!) sampled from healthy and sick people to try and find out why some bacteria live harmlessly on the skin for years and others cause disease or kill.	ComputationalBio Zone	March 2014
Iain Moal	Barcelona Supercomputing Center	I run computer simulations to work out how the protein molecules interact with one another in living creatures, and form the different types of molecular machinery which make life possible.	ComputationalBio Zone	March 2014
Nicola Rogers	University of Birmingham	I make and study molecules that I can attach to tiny gold nanoparticles, to give them a fluorescent coating so that we can see them down a microscope	Colour Zone	March 2014
Anna Middleton	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge	I explore ethics and genetics and the impact of this on people	ComputationalBio Zone	March 2014
Chris Cole	University of Dundee	I study the genetics of skin diseases together with medics.	ComputationalBio Zone	March 2014
Ruth Nottingham	University of Nottingham	I study a bacterium that can eat other bacteria,	Barium Zone	June 2014
Sam Connolly	University of Southampton	I’m trying to find out more about massive black holes at the centre of galaxies and how they suck up nearby gas	Astronomy Zone	June 2014
Roberto Trotta	Imperial College London	I try to find out what our Universe is made of and where it came from.	Astronomy Zone	June 2014
Nate Bastian	Liverpool John Moores University	I use the Hubble Space Telescope to study massive bursts of forming stars that happen when galaxies collide.	Astronomy Zone	June 2014
Natasha Stephen	Imperial College London & The Natural History Museum, London	I study meteorites and rocks from Mars and compare them to satellite and rover data from the Red Planet!	Astronomy Zone	June 2014
Andrei Luchici	University College London, Department of Mechanical Engineering	I develop mathematical models of cells to understand how they move and communicate with eachother.	Barium Zone	June 2014
Helen Gath	University of Reading, University College of London, Zoological Society of London AND the National Environment Research Council. Phew, that’s a lot of people!	I am a PhD student working to understand how we can prevent an endangered bird, the Echo parakeet, from returning to critically low numbers by protecting it in the wild.	Barium Zone	June 2014
Gemma Marsden	The University of Northampton	I manipulate bacterial DNA to see what makes bacteria tick.	Barium Zone	June 2014
Ekbal Hussain	The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) pay for the science I do at the University of Leeds.	I use satellites in space to see how the ground moves in dangerous earthquakes.	Barium Zone	June 2014
Lynne Thomas	University of Bath	I use big expensive pieces of kit at places like Diamond Light Source to torture crystals – I heat and cool them, squeeze, shine high powered lasers at them, all whilst shining X-rays on them – this is to help us make things that are useful as sensors or to make medicines that dissolve better in your blood stream	Diamond Zone	June 2014
Jenny Eyley	University of Nottingham	I make MOFs, which are sort of molecular sponges which soak up gases and might be used to hold the fuel in your car in the future.	Diamond Zone	June 2014
Daren Fearon	University of Southampton	I am a chemical biologist that studies ways to develop new drugs for bad bugs.	Diamond Zone	June 2014
Sandra Chiwanza	Quintiles Ltd	I work in Microbiology where we collect data for various clinical trials to make sure the drugs are working and safe	Drug Development Zone	June 2014
Nimesh Mistry	School of Chemistry, University of Leeds	I also teach chemistry at Leeds University and I make and design new medicines	Drug Development Zone	June 2014
Daryl Jones	Mayo Clinic, Florida	I look for cures for diseases that affect your brain, like Alzheimer’s disease and Mad Cow disease!!!	Drug Development Zone	June 2014
Sarah Casewell	University of Leicester	I research brown and white dwarfs – failed and dead stars!	Astronomy Zone	June 2014
Dave Jones	European Southern Observatory (and the University of Atacama)	I try to understand what happens when stars like the Sun run out of fuel.	Extreme Energy	June 2014
Phillip Manning	University of Manchester	Studying the evolution of life on Earth is simply splendid fun and using vast ‘science machines’, such as the Diamond Lightsource, adds even more to the exploration of Life.	Diamond Zone	June 2014
Shaylon Stolk	Clear Returns	Use math to study bird behaviour to reduce the risks from building wind farms.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2014
Ricardo Ramirez	The Genome Analysis Centre.	I help farmer choose wheat that survives disease and produce better bread	Agriculture Zone	June 2014
Liam Harvey	University of Warwick & The Horticultural Development Company (HDC)	Crops and Robbers- Insect Vs. Fungi	Agriculture Zone	June 2014
Kimberley Lowe	Marine Scotland	I check fish farms for signs of disease and dissect fish to take samples for testing.	Agriculture Zone	June 2014
Jennifer Stephens	The James Hutton Institute in Dundee, Scotland	I switch plant genes off and on to see what happens	Agriculture Zone	June 2014
James Taylor	Newcastle University	Study variability and patterns in how food crops grow	Agriculture Zone	June 2014
Anthony Caravaggi	Queen’s University Belfast	I study two different types of hare (sort of a big rabbit) in Northern Ireland to see how one might affect the other.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2014
Natalie Pilakouta	University of Edinburgh	I study animal sex, specifically asking which types of males females typically choose to mate with and why they might sometimes change their minds and mate with someone else instead.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2014
David Davila		I use mice and their brains to figure out which parts are affected by addictive drugs – and which parts keep you going back for more!	Samarium Zone	June 2014
James Bell	Natural Environment Research Council, University of Leeds & Natural History Museum	I study how animals in the deep sea affect each other in lots of different environments	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2014
Catherine Offord	Princeton University	I study how individual animals like ants can create huge swarms that move and make decisions together.	Animal Behaviour Zone	June 2014
Simon Redfern	University of Cambridge	a journey to the centre of the Earth, and back again … and maybe one day to Mars!	Diamond Zone	June 2014
Laurence Perreault Levasseur	DAMTP, University of Cambridge	I try to understand what happened in the first billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a millionth of a second in the history of the universe, just after the Big Bang (something called inflation).	Extreme Energy	June 2014
Greig Cowan	University of Edinburgh	I look for the small differences between matter and animatter.	Extreme Energy	June 2014
Chris Allton	Swansea University	I work out what the universe was like just after the Big Bang using very large computers and my very small brain.	Extreme Energy	June 2014
Aimee Hopper	University of Huddersfield	I aim to make a very fast particle accelerator using devices the size of your finger!	Extreme Energy	June 2014
Johanna Fischer		Trying to understand how different cell types are specified in the course of development	Samarium Zone	June 2014
Ramya Bhatia	The University of Edinburgh	I study how a virus called HPV lives in our body and causes cancer.	Infectious Diseases Zone	June 2014
Rebecca Gladstone	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute	We sequence the DNA of 20,000 of a bacteria that cause meningitis and pneumonia from around the worldand I compare the DNA from before and after vaccines!	Genomics Zone	June 2014
Anna Bramwell-Dicks	Department of Computer Science, University of York	I try to understand why people find some technology hard to use and how we can make it better	Promethium Zone	June 2014
Elaine Cloutman-Green	Great Ormond Street Hospital	I’m a hospital detective, I track bugs and find out how they get into patients.	Promethium Zone	June 2014
Ben Butler	Bangor University	With the help of some of the worlds most powerful X-rays, I look at how seawater behaves at really cold temperatures	Water Zone	June 2014
Emily Hayward	University of Bath	I research how water can be made clean using tiny little filters called membranes	Water Zone	June 2014
Harriet Aitken	University of Aberdeen	I use scrap metal to clean up poisoned water.	Water Zone	June 2014
Jemma Rowlandson	University of Bath	I am researching cars that could one day run off water.	Water Zone	June 2014
Veronica Celorrio	University of Bristol	Make new materials for energy	Water Zone	June 2014
Andrew French	University of Nottingham	I work with computers and cameras to learn stuff about the world around us	Vision Zone	June 2014
Elaine Gardener	MGS Laboratories	You dont have to go straight to uni – I didn’t and now I supervise testing cleaning/disinfectant liquids / toothpaste / water for germs	Vision Zone	June 2014
Emma Reid	Queen’s University Belfast	I use stem cells to repair damaged blood vessels in the eye.	Vision Zone	June 2014
Michael Kelly	The University of Manchester	I investigate how humans see in the dark and when dazzled by bright lights.	Vision Zone	June 2014
Nancy Carlisle	University of Leicester	I measure electrical activity from the brain to see which objects people are paying attention to and which objects they remember.	Vision Zone	June 2014
Zhiming Darren Tan	Currently a student	I try to understand why magnets feel frustrated.	Promethium Zone	June 2014
Tobias Warnecke	Imperial College London	I use a computer to study how genomes and proteins change through evolution.	Proteins Zone	June 2014
Kevin O'Dell	University of Glasgow (since 1989)	Understanding how genes affect behaviour	Promethium Zone	June 2014
Sam Lear	Durham University	I approach the problem of making proteins from a chemical perspective – by reacting together individual amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) in a lab	Proteins Zone	June 2014
Lucy Remnant	University of Edinburgh	Reptin, what does it do? Why is it in the cell? Why is there lots in cancer cells? – it’s my job to find out!	Proteins Zone	June 2014
Loren Macdonald	Newcastle University	I look at protein synthesis machinery and how this relates to cancer.	Proteins Zone	June 2014
Jo Nettleship	Oxford University	I make proteins to find out what they look like in minute detail.	Proteins Zone	June 2014
Thomas Smith	King’s College London	I travel the world in search of wildfires so that we can learn how wildfires affect climate change and the quality of the air we breathe.	Samarium Zone	June 2014
Tamas Korcsmaros	The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)	Exploring the molecular world through computers in the internet.	Samarium Zone	June 2014
Linda Cremonesi	Queen Mary University of London	I work with the most abundant yet tiniest particles in the universe: neutrinos!	Samarium Zone	June 2014
Claire Shooter	King’s College London	I study the genetics mutations that cause blood disorders and work out how to spot them more easily in the future	Bioinformatics Zone	June 2014
Ian Simpson	University of Edinburgh & Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS)	I use computers to study how genes work in the brain; 86 billion cells, 100s of trillions of connections and 24 thousand genes, it’s a big computer.	Bioinformatics Zone	June 2014
Sergey Lamzin	The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK	I program. I program computers, plants, microbls, animals, people. You name it!	Bioinformatics Zone	June 2014
Vicky Schneider	The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)	Passionate about building communities, working and engaging with others and bridging the gap between biologists and computational scientists.	Bioinformatics Zone	June 2014
Zena Hira	Imperial College London, Department Of Computing	I write computer programs to analyse huge quantities of cancer medical data	Bioinformatics Zone	June 2014
Heather Ritchie	University of Aberdeen/Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland	When I’m not off galavanting at sea collecting samples for my studies then I am usually based in my lab where I look at the differences in the genomes, DNA, genes etc to better understand why these creatures are so unique and how they can live at the very bottom of the sea.	Genomics Zone	June 2014
Fiona McLean	University of Aberdeen	I delve into the brain and search for memories. Sometimes I find that memories have disappeared! I try to work out if unhealthy foods are making them disappear…	Promethium Zone	June 2014
Rebecca Williams	University of Hull	I study volcanoes and try to understand what they might do when they erupt.	Praseodymium Zone	June 2014
Dementia Challenge	Designability	Simple technologies can help to improve the dignity and confidence of people with dementia and provide reassurance to their carers.	Longitude Prize Zone	June 2014
Ditte Hedegaard	University of Birmingham	I’m a training virologist (a person who works on viruses) and everyday I get to work with the genes of hepatitis c virus	Genomics Zone	June 2014
Dave Baker	The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)	I work with reallly expensive machines that read the DNA of all living things	Genomics Zone	June 2014
Ben White	The Genome Analysis Centre	I help scientists from around the world understand the genes in everything from tomatoes to naked mole rats.	Genomics Zone	June 2014
Amy Monaghan	University of Aberdeen	I look for cures for hormone disease including cancer and heart disease, using “light up” cells	Drug Development Zone	June 2014
Peter Elliott		I am a postgraduate reseacher and work on bugs and proteins	Infectious Diseases Zone	June 2014
Keith Grehan	University of Kent	I study viruses that are carried by bats and try to figure out what makes some dangerous to people, I hope this will let me predict potential new disease outbreaks and maybe lead to cures for existing diseases.	Infectious Diseases Zone	June 2014
Hannah Tanner	Public Health England	I design the hospital tests that help doctors know if their patients have got an infection and what to treat them with.	Infectious Diseases Zone	June 2014
Bethany Dearlove	Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge	I’m a disease detective – I use genetics to track the spread of infectious diseases including norovirus, hepatitis C and HIV.	Infectious Diseases Zone	June 2014
Water Challenge	UNICEF for +/- 30 years and latterly, freelance	The provision of adequate fresh water affects every person on the planet, and we don’t have enough of it.	Longitude Prize Zone	June 2014
Paralysis Challenge	My Institute is part of Case Western Reserve University	My team is building a neuromodulation system that will restore function to people with paralysis	Longitude Prize Zone	June 2014
Food Challenge	University of Nottingham	Within our team our research is varied, but it all contributes to sustaining a healthy supply of food for the world.	Longitude Prize Zone	June 2014
Charlotte Flavell	The University of Birmingham	I love brains – I want to know more about how we remember the events that make us happy or sad	Praseodymium Zone	June 2014
Flight Challenge	Airbus Group (Rhys), Oxford University (David), University of Bath (Michael)	Our work is involved in research and development of the processes required to design and manufacture future aircraft.	Longitude Prize Zone	June 2014
Antibiotics Challenge	Louise: University of Reading. Aled: University of Nottingham. PB: University of Birmingham	Keep our antibiotics working by creating a simple test for bacterial resistance.	Longitude Prize Zone	June 2014
Sakshi Sharda		I work on understanding why we get fat and why some of us suffer from diseases such as diabetes.	Neodymium Zone	June 2014
Andrea Cristini	Keele University	Looking at how the inside of a star works.	Praseodymium Zone	June 2014
Heather Price	University of Southampton	I test the air and water to find out if it’s toxic for the people breathing or drinking it.	Praseodymium Zone	June 2014
Oliver George	The University of Reading	I make a deadly microbe found in your poo get used to living on plants to work out how the microbe works.	Praseodymium Zone	June 2014
Edward Hughes	Queen Mary, University of London.	I work out what happens when you smash particles together really hard, using some weird and wonderful new maths	Neodymium Zone	June 2014
Anita Thomas	The University of Bristol – using funding from the British Heart Foundation	Trying to save peoples lives, one cell at a time	Drug Development Zone	June 2014
Mathew Piasecki		I study motor unit characteristics and their association with muscle function	Neodymium Zone	June 2014
Ian Stephenson	National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA)/Bournemouth University	I figure out how to do computer graphics for movies.	Neodymium Zone	June 2014
Naomi Osborne	Thermo Fisher Scientific	I make agar (kind of like jelly!) that allows the detection of hospital superbugs and bacteria that cause food poisoning	Neodymium Zone	June 2014
Ian Cade	The University of Manchester	Finding new, cheaper, quicker and more efficient ways to make new chemical building-blocks for use in the synthesis of compounds	ChemCareers Zone	November 2014
Claire Cooke		I manage whynotchemeng which promotes the diversity of careers in chemical engineering	ChemCareers Zone	November 2014
Andrew Philp	University of Birmingham	Lecturer in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham	Body Zone	November 2014
Robert Bowles	The Royal Society of Chemistry	I develop online career resources for the Royal Society of Chemistry.	ChemCareers Zone	November 2014
Giovanna Bermano	Prof Cherry Wainwright, Director of Institute for Health and Wellbeing Research at Robert Gordon University	Apple or pear? Which body shape should I be? My research looks at the link between body shape (=distribution of fat tissue in the body) and obesity associated diseases	Body Zone	November 2014
Katie Pickering	Leeds Beckett University (formally Leeds Metropolitan University)	Exploring the effectiveness of Smartphone technology and social media in encouraging inactive adults to become active and reduce obesity and related diseases.	Body Zone	November 2014
Theresia Mina	Prof. Rebecca Reynolds @ the British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, the University of Edinburgh	I wonder what’s the effect of being obese and stressed during pregnancy to the children when they grow up, the mechanism behind it, and how best to limit what’s harmful.	Body Zone	November 2014
Angela Stokes	I work for a Japanese company called Eisai.	I help to get medicines to people and also I help people to look differently at their science degree	ChemCareers Zone	November 2014
Sarah Harris	Science Council	I work on Future Morph, a website that shows all the awesome careers options after studying science and maths	ChemCareers Zone	November 2014
Duane Mellor	University of Nottingham	Food and health, mainly trying to work out if chocolate can be good for people with diabetes	Body Zone	November 2014
Alex Pool	Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Marys, University of London	I look at how we can stop cancer cells dividing, if we can stop that then the cancer dies.	Europium Zone	November 2014
Zoe Roberts	University of Warwick	I make new materials, explore their properties and see what they can be used for.	Drug Synthesis Zone	November 2014
Clare Harding	Glasgow University	I am interested in a tiny parasite which lives in our bodies and how it grows and makes us sick.	Gadolinium Zone	November 2014
George Ryall	The Science and Technology Facilities Council (https://www.stfc.ac.uk/3060.aspx)	Developing computer systems to handle large quantities of science data	Big Data Zone	November 2014
Pierre Lasorak	Queen Mary university	I am a research student at Queen Mary University; I am studying neutrinos.	Extreme Temperature Zone	November 2014
Lisa Simmons	Manchester Metropolitan University	I am a university lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan Universtiy, and I research many different types of materials	Extreme Temperature Zone	November 2014
Kate Dobson	As of November 1, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitat, Munich	Volcanoes are complicated… and it’s impossible to visit a magma chamber that is km beneath the surface and full of molten rock at 1200C: so I put miniature versions under very high powered 4D x-ray microscopes and watch what happens.	Extreme Temperature Zone	November 2014
Joshaniel Cooper	Science and Technology Facilities Council	I use a variety of particle accelerators to look at thin magnets and superconductors	Extreme Temperature Zone	November 2014
Joe Reed	University of Southampton	The aurora is formed by an interaction between wind from the sun and a big magnetic field around the Earth, I’m looking at and trying to model whats going on.	Extreme Temperature Zone	November 2014
Tora Smulders-Srinivasan	Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK	I race fruit flies to discover more about how Parkinson’s disease makes brain cells die!	Gadolinium Zone	November 2014
David Wilson	University of Warwick	I’m trying to find out what happens to planets like ours when their stars go out.	Gadolinium Zone	November 2014
Daniel Parsons	University of Hull	I play with mud, sand and water to understand how climate change alters our rivers, coasts and oceans!	Gadolinium Zone	November 2014
Arthur Dyer	Oxford University	I train viruses to attack cancer cells only and use this to try to cure cancer!	Gadolinium Zone	November 2014
Kerry O'Shea	University of Glasgow	I study exciting new materials which will probably be in your future smart phone’s memory	Europium Zone	November 2014
Andrew McKinley	Imperial College London	I am a teaching fellow in a university, with a specialism in optical spectroscopy.	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2014
Francesca Palombo	University of Exeter	I feel comfortable when I do my work in an effective and vibrant environment; science is always new and challenging, that is why I love it.	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2014
Laura Schofield	The University of Nottingham	I make plastic from fruit peel	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2014
Matthew Camilleri	University of Bath	Analysing reactions after shining visible light over them	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2014
Rebecca Ingle	University of Bristol	Firing lasers at molecules to see how they react with light	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2014
Heather Campbell	University of Cambridge	I search for new supernovae using the Gaia Satellite Mission.	Space Zone	November 2014
Helen Johnson	Durham University	I use the world’s largest telescopes to ‘time-travel’, studying the Universe as it was billions of years ago – extreme, dynamic and always surprising.	Space Zone	November 2014
Hugh Osborn	University of Warwick	I use telescopes from around the world to search for planets around distant stars	Space Zone	November 2014
Jane MacArthur	University of Leicester	I am studying rocks from Mars and grains from a comet using microscopes and light brighter than the sun, to help understand what they are made of and how they formed in the early Solar System.	Space Zone	November 2014
Julian Onions		I build universes in some of the biggest computers on the planet.	Space Zone	November 2014
Alison Thomson	My employer is Professor Simon Parson – he’s super cool! There’s a picture of him in my photos section.	I study a very special type of motor neurone disease and how it affects the way our blood vessels grow.	Europium Zone	November 2014
Philip Ratcliffe	Insubria University in Como, Italy	Particle physics theory	Europium Zone	November 2014
Sarah Ashwood	the University of Manchester	Mixing random chemicals together to work out what happens.	Drug Synthesis Zone	November 2014
Theo Laftsoglou	University of Leeds	I’m trying to understand how a friendly bug produces electricity, so that we can use it to turn our waste-water into green electricity.	Europium Zone	November 2014
Elaine O'Reilly	Manchester Metropolitan University		Drug Synthesis Zone	November 2014
David Foley	The University of Dundee	I try to fix broken cells using chemistry!	Drug Synthesis Zone	November 2014
Jodi Schneider	INRIA — The French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation	I develop new ways for on-line communities to organise information in group projects.	Big Data Zone	November 2014
Rob Appleyard	STFC	I look after the data produced by the Large Hadron Collider, which is one of the world’s largest physics experiments.	Big Data Zone	November 2014
Stefan Lines	University of Bristol.	I Build Planets! (With Computers)	Big Data Zone	November 2014
Ceri Dare	NHS Grampian	I use maths to fight ‘superbugs’ like MRSA. I also talk to people about how they decide to use medicines.	Antibiotics Zone	November 2014
Marikka Beecroft	Durham University and University College.	I mess with metals that bacteria need to grow and survive.	Antibiotics Zone	November 2014
Matt Bilton	Jefferiss Research Trust	By zapping cells with lasers, infecting them with bacteria and peering at them down powerful microscopes, I study how the immune system battles tuberculosis — the white plague!	Antibiotics Zone	November 2014
Robert Hampson	University of Nottingham (funded by the Medical Research Council)	I make chemicals which are meant to make bacteria less nasty	Antibiotics Zone	November 2014
Sally Cutler	University of East London	Mad about science :))	Antibiotics Zone	November 2014
Anna Scaife	University of Southampton	I’m part of the team building the world’s largest radio telescope.	Big Data Zone	November 2014
Aaron Acton	Universtiy of Birmingham	I synthesise compounds and make devices that can be used to understand biological systems.	Drug Synthesis Zone	November 2014
Martin Wieczysty	Fujifilm Imaging Colourants	Try to improve chemical reactions to make colourful dyes.	Materials Zone	March 2015
Peter Maskell	University of Huddersfield	Spending my time working out how drugs may have killed people (or not)	Molecules Zone	March 2015
James Coombs OBrien	The University of Bath	I take materials from plants and turn them into plastics	Materials Zone	March 2015
Elizabeth Cooper	Shepherd Widnes	Improving or creating processes for the chemical factory by research and development	Materials Zone	March 2015
Samantha Terry	King’s College London	I am a biologist and I use radiation to image cancers and arthritis to help with treatment planning.	Medical Physics Zone	March 2015
Pauline Hall	NHS Glasgow	You’ll find me in a basement next to a MRI scanner!	Medical Physics Zone	March 2015
Paul Booker	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (The NHS)	I work in a hospital, curing people by firing radiation from multi million-pound machines to zap their cancer	Medical Physics Zone	March 2015
Glafkos Havariyoun	Kings College Hospital NHS Trust	I am a 25 year old physicist and I’m involved in using radiation for imaging and therapies in hospitals.	Medical Physics Zone	March 2015
Clare Devery	NHS Tayside	I’m a physicist and I use the laws of physics everyday to help run MRI scanners in hospitals	Medical Physics Zone	March 2015
Shreesha Bhat	University of Lincoln	A Chemist trying to generate feelings in the chemicals which react with each other and deliver a new chemical molecule which can some day become a superhero (drug) and save the lives of people!	Molecules Zone	March 2015
Sarwat Iqbal	Cardiff University	I am a chemistry scientist investigating the possibility of generation of clean fuel	Molecules Zone	March 2015
Martin Ward	University of Edinburgh	I am interested in understanding why and how crystals are formed.	Materials Zone	March 2015
Sophie Robinson	Brighton & Sussex Medical School	I cut and paste DNA in an attempt to find the cause of blood cancer	Genes Zone	March 2015
Robert Woolfson	The University of Manchester	Trying to turn molecules into a computer	Materials Zone	March 2015
Hephzi Tagoe	UCL Institute of Child Health	I work with skin cells (keratinocytes) to find out what causes some people to have rough scaly skin and hopefully help find a cure	Erbium Zone	March 2015
Alexander Henderson	University of Bristol / EPSRC Funded	I stick sugars to metals and try to do new types of chemistry.	Molecules Zone	March 2015
Tristan Smith	University of Bath	I am second year PhD student working in a sustainable science centre attempting to use microbes to produce the higher value chemicals found in crude oil from a sustainable source.	Genes Zone	March 2015
Adam Milligan	Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland	I want to see if dogs are right handed or left handed and if left handed dogs are unhappier than right handed dogs	Evolution Zone	March 2015
Emily Seward	The wonderful Steve Kelly, an absolutely fantastic scientist and great mentor.	Parasites often face challenging or hostile environments within their hosts; I explore how plant parasites evolve to survive in new hosts as well as the genetics that makes this possible.	Evolution Zone	March 2015
Stephanie Bryant	‘God and the Big Bang’	I work on an exciting project called God and the Big Bang.	Evolution Zone	March 2015
Thaddeus Aid	University of Oxford	I am looking for mutations that help humans.	Evolution Zone	March 2015
Thomas Clements	I now work for the University of Leicester and NERC studying fossils.	I try to understand why squishy things with no hard parts, like worms, octopuses and jellyfish, turn into fossils.	Evolution Zone	March 2015
Imogen Napper	Plymouth University	I am researching plastic pollution in the ocean! Where does it come from and what happens to it?	Erbium Zone	March 2015
Matthew Moore	Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool.	In the second year of my PhD, I’m comparing the genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that infects the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis.	Genes Zone	March 2015
Jen Machin	Newcastle University	I’m trying to find out more about how young children learn, and how they remember things from their past and imagine what will happen in the future. This is called mental time travel!	Erbium Zone	March 2015
Jennifer Rudd	Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)	We are mimicking photosynthesis using coloured molecules with metals, sunlight hits our molecules in a water solution and then we see bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen.	Erbium Zone	March 2015
Thomas Barrett	The Open University	I study the rocks that have crashed to earth from space to hunt for water.	Erbium Zone	March 2015
Anna Ashton	University of Aberdeen	I’m looking at vitamin A and how it might be used in a part of the brain called the pineal gland, which is important for controlling sleep	Dysprosium Zone	March 2015
James Pope	British Antarctic Survey	I investigate Antarctic sea ice to see what happens to it due to climate change	Dysprosium Zone	March 2015
Joe Spencer	University of Southampton	I use lasers to help us understand the properties of next generation electronics	Dysprosium Zone	March 2015
Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes	University College London	I’m a human movement scientist who investigates how our brain controls eye-hand coordination, for example to understand how we play ball sports or computer games.	Dysprosium Zone	March 2015
Olivia Lynes	Lancaster University	I use supercomputers to investigate the waste products of the nuclear industry and hopefully find a solution!	Dysprosium Zone	March 2015
Ravinder Kanda	University of Oxford	Understanding why our DNA looks the way it does.	Genes Zone	March 2015
Barbara Shih	University of Manchester	I’m a post-doctoral researcher looking at the risks versus the benifits of sun exposure.	Genes Zone	March 2015
Dave Bond	Diamond Light Source	Computing geek, involved with developing and maintaining Scientific Computing at Diamond	Light Zone	March 2015
Noel Carter	University of Sunderland	A mixture of teaching students and laboratory work	Immune System Zone	March 2015
Ed Rial	Diamond Light Source	I make electrons dance so hard they shine more brightly than a billion suns, by using the most powerful permanent magnets on Earth, superconductors working near absolute zero, and a particle accelerator.	Light Zone	March 2015
Guido Bolognesi	Imperial College London	I use lasers to trap, move and deform objects – this is not scify, this is light science!!	Light Zone	March 2015
Hugh Harvey	The Institute of Cancer Research	I’m a doctor that takes X-rays to look inside you and see your bones and other bits!	Light Zone	March 2015
Mariastefania De Vido	STFC Central Laser Facility	I develop innovative high energy lasers, which will improve everybody’s life. Do you want to know how? Read on!	Light Zone	March 2015
Carmen Denman	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	I use E.coli to make vaccines	Immune System Zone	March 2015
Daniel Vipond	Norwich Medical School, Unversity of East Anglia	I am a patient charity funded PhD student studying the role of a leaky gut and intestinal bacteria in people diagnosed with ME, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). Very little is understood about the cause of the condition estimated to affect 250,000 people across the UK. Patients experience severe fatigue and physical and mental exhaustion, however, there are many other symptoms which not all patients experience and is very individual. It commonly affects the nervous symptom and the immune system, but is unlikely to be a single disease with a single cause.	Immune System Zone	March 2015
Laura Garcia Ibanez	University of Birmingham	During my PhD, I study how B lymphocytes mature and differenciate into plasma cells and memory B cells, in order to improve vaccines	Immune System Zone	March 2015
Stephanie Dyson	University of York	I am a computational immunologist, I make dots on the computer act like cells in our body to try and figure out what causes us to get sick	Immune System Zone	March 2015
Sarah Kirk	Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies, University of Bath	Making plastics from plants!	Green Chemistry Zone	March 2015
Frank Longford	Institute of Complex Systems Simulation	I am a PhD student at the Institute of Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS) in Southampton, studying the mysteries of water’s surface using supercomputer simulations.	Holmium Zone	March 2015
Ian Sandal	University of Sheffield	I make and study new materials for lasers or that can detect light.	Holmium Zone	March 2015
Isabel Pires	University of Hull	I am a Cancer Biologist, and in my work I try to understand how the conditions in a tumour can change the cells within it, and how we can use these changes to make cancer cells easier to detect and more sensitive to treatment.	Holmium Zone	March 2015
Jared Parnell	Durham University	I am a vision scientist, investigating vision in humans and animals, particularly animal eyes, 3DTVs, and human accommodation (how we focus on things).	Holmium Zone	March 2015
Alan McCue	The university of Aberdeen	I spend my day making things called ‘Catalysts’ which allow us to make chemicals in a green and clean way!	Green Chemistry Zone	March 2015
Becky Gregory	University of York	I look at how bacteria eat plants to see if we can use their digestion methods on waste as an alternative to the fuel in our cars.	Green Chemistry Zone	March 2015
Jo Sadler	University of Strathclyde/ GlaxoSmithKline	Improving enzymes to help make medicines sustainably	Green Chemistry Zone	March 2015
Sankar Meenakshisundaram	Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff University	I am a catalysis chemist and interested in developing catalysts that convert renewable materials (CO2, waste biomass) to useful compounds.	Green Chemistry Zone	March 2015
Anaïs Pujol	Antikor Biopharma Ltd	attaching a drug on a protein and characterise it.	Molecules Zone	March 2015
Zena Hadjivasiliou	University College London	I like to use equations to explain fascinating patterns that we see in nature, like the spirals on the shells of snails and the stripes on zebras. I am also interested in the differences between male and female sexual cells and their evolution.	Holmium Zone	March 2015
Yelong Wei	University of Liverpool	Research on dielectric laser-driven acceleration of electrons in a grating-based microstructure	Particle Physics Zone	March 2015
Richard Simons	Imperial College London	I’m developing a way to purify water with light, zapping bacteria to give clean drinking water	Sustaining Health Zone	March 2015
Luke Maidment		I’m trying to use lasers to detect dangerous chemicals from a safe distance away.	Terbium Zone	March 2015
Philip Moriarty	University of Nottingham	We’re aiming to do 3D printing with atoms.	Terbium Zone	March 2015
Shona Whittam	NHS	My work in Radiotherapy Physics involves planning patient’s cancer treatments, looking after the machines that deliver the treatments (Linear Accelerators) and doing measurements to ensure the patient receives the correct dose of high-energy X-Rays.	Terbium Zone	March 2015
Angeline Burrell	University of Leicester	I study plasma in the Earth’s atmosphere to see how it responds to changes in sunlight.	Terbium Zone	March 2015
Nicki Whitehouse	Plymouth University	I am an environmental archaeologist and palaeoecologist – I study past species, communities and ecosystems over the last 450,000 years. This includes interactions with humans! A large component of my work concerns the beginnings of early agriculture and its ecological impacts	Sustaining Health Zone	March 2015
Nikolai Adamski	John Innes Centre (JIC)	I am a plant geneticist and I try to create better varieties of wheat to help feed the growing world population.	Sustaining Health Zone	March 2015
Cristiane Calixto	University of Dundee	Work? I like it so much that I don’t see it as work.	Sustaining Health Zone	March 2015
Catherine Vlahakis	Joint ALMA Observatory & European Southern Observatory	I work as a scientist/astronomer at the ALMA observatory in Chile – the “Atacama Large Milllimeter/submillimeter Array”.	Terbium Zone	March 2015
Oliver Brown	Heriot-Watt University	I ask my computer to tell me things about quantum physics, sometimes it does!	Particle Physics Zone	March 2015
Michele Faucci Giannelli	Royal Holloway University of London	I analyse the ATLAS data looking for rare Higgs interactions	Particle Physics Zone	March 2015
Vicky Bayliss	STFC (Science Technology and Facilities Council)	I design powerful electromagnets that operate at extremely low temperatures (-269ºC) to steer the beam in particle accelerators like Diamond Light Source.	Particle Physics Zone	March 2015
Samuel Ellis	The Institute of Food Research, where lots of scientists work on areas linked to food and health	My work involves finding out how some nasty bacteria in food (the kind that gives you diarrhoea!) stick to the inside of your guts and grow. (Click read more to see some science and pictures)	Sustaining Health Zone	March 2015
Jaclyn Bell	The University of Liverpool, Walton Youth Project	I’m a Theoretical Physicist – I’m really lucky because in my job I get to learn all about how tiny particles, which make up everything we see around us, can smash together at really high energies – hopefully giving us new stuff that we can use to make a model which describes how our universe works.	Particle Physics Zone	March 2015
Kathryn Asbury	University of York		Learning Zone	April 2015
Masud Husain	University of Oxford		Learning Zone	April 2015
Mark Mon-Williams	University of Leeds / Bradford Institute of Health Research / Buskerud and Vestfold University (Norway)		Learning Zone	April 2015
Lucy Cragg	University of Nottingham		Learning Zone	April 2015
Kathy Robinson			Learning Zone	April 2015
Emma Norris	University College London		Learning Zone	April 2015
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh	University of Oxford		Learning Zone	April 2015
Ian Devonshire	University of Nottingham		Learning Zone	April 2015
Joni Holmes	Medical Research Council, Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit		Learning Zone	April 2015
Joseph Devlin	UCL		Learning Zone	April 2015
Iroise Dumontheil	Birkbeck, University of London.		Learning Zone	April 2015
Duncan Astle	Medical Research Council – Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit		Learning Zone	April 2015
Ellie Dommett	KCL		Learning Zone	April 2015
Katherine Weare	Me		Learning Zone	April 2015
Nikki Lee	VU University Amsterdam		Learning Zone	April 2015
Matthew Nolan	University of Edinburgh		Learning Zone	April 2015
Matt Davis	Medical Research Council (the bit of the government that funds Medical Research)		Learning Zone	April 2015
Michael Thomas	Birkbeck, University of London		Learning Zone	April 2015
Dana Ruggiero	Bath Spa University		Learning Zone	April 2015
Paul Howard-Jones	Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol		Learning Zone	April 2015
Rebecca Merkley			Learning Zone	April 2015
Rod Nicolson	University of Sheffield		Learning Zone	April 2015
Russell Foster			Learning Zone	April 2015
Sarah Kuppen	Senior Lecturer at		Learning Zone	April 2015
Sean Talamas	University of St Andrews		Learning Zone	April 2015
Steven Rose	retired		Learning Zone	April 2015
Tracy Solomon			Learning Zone	April 2015
Tim Myers			Learning Zone	April 2015
Susanna Martin	University of Bath		Learning Zone	April 2015
Sue Fletcher-Watson	University of Edinburgh		Learning Zone	April 2015
Daniel Ansari	Western University, Canada		Learning Zone	April 2015
Katie Overy			Learning Zone	April 2015
Crawford Winlove	University of Exeter		Learning Zone	April 2015
Anna Remington	UCL Institute of Education		Learning Zone	April 2015
Andy Tolmie	UCL Institute of Education		Learning Zone	April 2015
Colin Espie	University of Oxford		Learning Zone	April 2015
Catriona Morrison	Heriot-Watt University		Learning Zone	April 2015
Chris Jarrold	University of Bristol		Learning Zone	April 2015
Anna Simmonds	I work at Imperial College London		Learning Zone	April 2015
Alice Jones	Goldsmiths, University of London		Learning Zone	April 2015
Liad Baruchin		I am mostly interested in how the brain stores memories	Thulium Zone	June 2015
Claire Bryer	University of Oxford	Looking at how our DNA makes us different from one another	Thulium Zone	June 2015
Tat Ming Mako Ng	University of Bath	Making cheap and Earth-friendly ‘fairies’ to power your house.	Thulium Zone	June 2015
Martha Havenith	Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour	I teach mice to play computer games while I am messing with their brain.	Lutetium Zone	June 2015
Jonny Brooks-Bartlett	University of Oxford	I spend my day writing maths and computer code to see if I can explain how proteins (biological machines in our bodies) get damaged when you shoot X-rays at them	Lutetium Zone	June 2015
Ruth Elderfield	Imperial College London	I try and figure out how viruses work	Thulium Zone	June 2015
Ryan Cheale	Royal Society	I look at really old galaxies	Thulium Zone	June 2015
Steven Thomson	University of St Andrews & ISIS Neutron Scattering Facility	I help unravel the secrets of the weirdest forces in nature by thinking about the coldest things in the universe!	Extreme Force	June 2015
Hannah Greenwood	University of Birmingham	Helping our white blood cells get better at fighting bacteria as we age	Lutetium Zone	June 2015
Alison Whitaker	The Arts Data Impact Project: Barbican, National Theatre, English National Opera, The Audience Agency	My work is usually a combination of arts, science and statistics	Lutetium Zone	June 2015
Paul Brack	Loughborough University	I’m playing with a material that was used a century ago to fill Zeppelins with hydrogen (and then forgotten about) to see if I can use it in a pocket sized power station.	Lutetium Zone	June 2015
Freya Wilson	University of Leeds, School of Physics and Astronomy	I am making a new way of sending secret messages so that not even the best hackers could figure them out!	Electromagnetic Zone	June 2015
Daniel Hewson	University of Exeter	My work is all about understanding how colour is produced by natural materials.	Electromagnetic Zone	June 2015
Lidunka Vocadlo	UCL	I try to work out what is going on in the Earth’s core and in the cores of the terrestrial planets, e.g. Mercury	Extreme Force	June 2015
James Gilbert	University of Oxford department of Physics	I build robotic telescope instrumentation for mapping the Universe!	Electromagnetic Zone	June 2015
Miranda Jackson	Cardiff University	I study black holes and neutron stars, which are among the most extreme and energetic objects in the universe!	Electromagnetic Zone	June 2015
Lynn Martin	Northern Ireland Water	I test drinking water samples to see if there are any dangerous metals in it that would affect people’s health.	Colour Zone	June 2015
Kevin Honeychurch	University of the West of England	detection of drugs and piosons	Colour Zone	June 2015
Jessica Wade	Imperial College London	I’m making colourful inks that can conduct electricity, then printing them on plastic to make flexible solar panels, bendy mobile phones and roll-up TV screens.	Colour Zone	June 2015
Jade Owen	Intertek Melbourn / SCI Agrisciences	I check different medicines and figure out how to test new ones.	Colour Zone	June 2015
Andrew Fensham-Smith	University of Bristol!	Trying to get gold to do things it shouldn’t, reacting with things it normally won’t!	Colour Zone	June 2015
Susan Cartwright	University of Sheffield	I am an experimental neutrino physicist – I’m trying to find out whether neutrinos, the least massive and least strongly interacting of all the known particles, might hold the key to understanding why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter.	Hafnium Zone	June 2015
Rob Temperton	University of Nottingham	I work in various labs in Nottingham and around Europe to study molecules on surfaces with the aim to develop and understand new methods of energy production	Hafnium Zone	June 2015
Rebecca Dewey	The University of Nottingham	I want to see how the brain acts when we change its surroundings.	Hafnium Zone	June 2015
Josh Meyers	The Institute of Cancer Research	I write computer programs which help discover new medicines for cancer	Hafnium Zone	June 2015
Chris Armstrong	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory/University of Strathclyde	I’m a PhD Student working with some of the most powerful lasers in the world to generate tailor made x-ray pulses capable of imaging industrial scale objects.	Hafnium Zone	June 2015
Sarah Beasley	QinetiQ	I work on the protection of military aircraft using lasers!	Extreme Force	June 2015
Usman Bashir	King’s College London	My work is on a latest machine which takes pictures of inside the body (called a ‘PET/MRI scanner’) to help detect cancer	Electromagnetic Zone	June 2015
Jillian Scudder	University of Sussex	I’m an American postdoc working in the UK, and I study what happens to galaxies when they go crashing into each other.	Extreme Force	June 2015
Laura Wales	NHS Lothian: Reproductive Medicine Laboratory	I work in a lab looking at sperm samples, freeze sperm for future fertility treatment (eg. IVF) and have developed the new NHS sperm bank in Edinburgh.	Hormones Zone	June 2015
Connor Macrae	University of Hull	I study the extreme environments of our sun and other stars, from spectacular solar flares and cool sunspots to shocking sun- and star-quakes.	Extreme Force	June 2015
Thomas Farrugia	Myself, the University of Bristol and TF Industries.	I take natural proteins, chemically modify them and then make thin films out of them.	Polymers Zone	June 2015
Ruhina Miller		Low temperature stability of surfactants used in shampoos, etc	Polymers Zone	June 2015
Alex Agyemang	Takeda Development Centre	I am interested in the causes of diseases and how drugs can be used to treat or cure diseases.	Pharmacology Zone	June 2015
Laura Newton	University of Bath	I’m trying to detect what molecules change and understand exactly what happens when skin is hit by UV light – the dangerous part of sunlight	Pharmacology Zone	June 2015
Richard Prince	University of Manchester	A teaching-focussed receptor pharmacologist.	Pharmacology Zone	June 2015
Vedia Can	University of Westminster	I use molecules naturally generated by the human body to prevent Osteoarthritis.	Pharmacology Zone	June 2015
Rose Simnett	Durham University	I make new polymers that are designed to have different and interesting properties.	Polymers Zone	June 2015
Arthur Wilkinson	The University of Manchester	Teaching and research on polymers and composites.	Polymers Zone	June 2015
Anne Canning	University of Nottingham	Make polymer surfaces to grow cells on, to direct their behaviour	Polymers Zone	June 2015
Amy Cameron	University of Dundee and my boss Dr Graham Rena.	Learning how a diabetes drug works to improve it and to provide a better understanding of type 2 diabetes.	Hormones Zone	June 2015
Craig Doig	University of Birmingham and my boss Gareth (he’s ok!)	Essentially, I research how to keep our muscles 25 years old when the rest of our body is 65.	Hormones Zone	June 2015
Lesley Pearson	Drug Discovery Unit, University of Dundee	Finding new ways to test the potential medicines that the chemists make	Pharmacology Zone	June 2015
Partha Kar	Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	Live in a mystical world of hormones..and try to help those who struggle with them! 🙂	Hormones Zone	June 2015
Natt Day	University of Southampton	I infect lung cells with the cold and see how they react	Health Zone	June 2015
Saffron Whitehead	Part-time at St George’s University of London, mainly now examining students	Teaching medical students about hormones, doing experiments and writing papers and books on endocrinology	Hormones Zone	June 2015
Hayley Clissold	University of York	Bacteria make lots of proteins. I am trying to work out which of these proteins are needed to invade the cells in our body.	Ytterbium Zone	June 2015
Iain Bethune	EPCC (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre), The University of Edinburgh	My code runs on some of the world’s largest Supercomputers, simulating how the world works!	Ytterbium Zone	June 2015
Tatiana Trantidou	Imperial College London	I make micro-devices that produce tiny droplets of a drug which travel through the body to find a specific site of pain/infection and act on it.	Health Zone	June 2015
Priya Hari	University of Edinburgh	I use an automated microscope to help us find proteins which defend our body against cancer.	Health Zone	June 2015
Anna Kutner	Nuvia Limited	In my job I make sure that no harm comes to the environment and humans from the radioactive waste produced by the industry.	Ytterbium Zone	June 2015
Dwaine Vance	Randox Laboratories Limited	I am currently developing a genetic risk profile test to predict future risk of CHD and heart attack	Health Zone	June 2015
Andrew Scott	The Royal Brompton Hospital (National Institute for Health Research funded Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit)	I’m the make it happen man in MRI.	Health Zone	June 2015
Sascha Stollhans	University of Nottingham, my post is partly funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)	I like to discover how languages work, how we learn them and what successful language teaching should be like.	Ytterbium Zone	June 2015
Rebecca Jones	University of Liverpool	I work on parasites that grow inside insects and make them glow in the dark to stop mice eating them!!	Ytterbium Zone	June 2015
Clean Room			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Computer Room			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Controlslab			Harwell Zone	July 2015
RAL Cryogenics			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Crystal Extreme			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Dinosaur Eracleous			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Medical Physics			Harwell Zone	July 2015
ISIS Exhibit			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Mark Basham			Harwell Zone	July 2015
LSF			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Mary Rose			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Oxford Protein Production Facility			Harwell Zone	July 2015
sci scitest			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Research Complex Harwell			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Table of Plasma			Harwell Zone	July 2015
UK Space Agency			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Chris Pearson			Harwell Zone	July 2015
Keith Franklin	The National Nuclear Laboratory – they sent me to work in Tokyo after the Earthquake in Japan in 2011.	I help Japan to clean up after the Fukushima accident by introducing clever gadgets from the UK.	Osmium Zone	November 2015
Abbey McGarrigle	Renishaw	I am a biomedical engineer who designs medical devices that are placed in the brain. These devices can be used to help and improve neurological related illness.	Osmium Zone	November 2015
Aaron Boardley	Royal Academy of Engineering	I write about engineering and the science behind it – for journalists, for social media, and for the web.	Osmium Zone	November 2015
Eva Weiss		Me and my computer search for important motifs in viral genomes.	Rhenium Zone	November 2015
Kate Wright	Cavendish Nuclear	I work in radiation detection to make sure that dangerous radioactive stuff is dealt with properly.	Rhenium Zone	November 2015
David Nunan	University of Oxford (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences & Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)	I keep watch of headlines and stories to help guard us from bad science and bogus claims about health and medicine.	Rhenium Zone	November 2015
Nicholas Pearce	Nottingham University	I work in a chemistry lab making molecules to use in nanotechnology like electronics, micromachines and solar cells.	Rhenium Zone	November 2015
Cristina Villa del Campo	Proff. Paul Riley (University of Oxford)	I work finding small vesicles to help regenerate the heart	Heart Zone	November 2015
Rachel McMullan	The Open University	I use worms as a simple system to understand how being stressed can make you ill	Rhenium Zone	November 2015
Natalie Garrett	University of Exeter	I use lasers to look at the paths drugs take inside the body.	Osmium Zone	November 2015
Peter Burgess	Solarcentury	I make sure solar power systems are running as well as they can	Osmium Zone	November 2015
Craig Bull	STFC	Inquisitive about knowing what happens when stuff gets squashed	Extreme Pressure Zone	November 2015
Gemma Barron	Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen	I grow blood vessels in a lab!! I look at how inflammatory molecules released from fat tissues, in our blood, effect blood vessel development and look at what happens next.	Heart Zone	November 2015
Loan Nguyen	Elly Cartwright	I learn about how fat clogs up the blood vessels and causes heart attacks	Heart Zone	November 2015
Michael Schneider	Imperial College London	I use advanced stem cell techniques to study heart disease and heart repair — making new muscle cells to replace dead ones, and saving cells that are in danger of dying.	Heart Zone	November 2015
Praveen Surendran	University of Cambridge	Analyses of data (genetic and clinical measures) from samples across the globe to see if changes in DNA can influence risk for heart diseases and it’s risk factors	Heart Zone	November 2015
Flavia de Almeida Dias	The University of Edinburgh	I use the worlds biggest camera to look at what happens when protons are smashed together in order to better understand the universe	Extreme Pressure Zone	November 2015
Giuditta Perversi	University of Edinburgh	Even the magnet that you use to stick stuff on your fridge behaves really differently when you put it under huge amount of pressure or really high/really low temperatures, so I recreate these conditions to figure out what’s happening!	Extreme Pressure Zone	November 2015
Jack Carlyle	Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL)	I look at massive explosions happening on the Sun which can reach Earth and beyond!	Extreme Pressure Zone	November 2015
Sheona Masterton	Getech	I figure out how and why the continents move over millions of years.	Extreme Pressure Zone	November 2015
Sara Falcone	Medical Research Council	Studying old mice to explore the ageing process	Ageing Zone	November 2015
Carolyn Nielsen	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	I try to understand how a virus can ‘age’ the cells of your immune system!	Ageing Zone	November 2015
Peter Francis	Leeds Beckett University.	I investigate the role of exercise in health and ageing and also seek to understand the factors which affect sports performance and sports injury.	Ageing Zone	November 2015
Richard Unwin	Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Yorkshireman studying how diseases of old age develop.	Ageing Zone	November 2015
Maire Gorman	University College London	I help astronomers work out what molecules are in other planets-ie is there alien life out there?	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2015
Michael Kyriakides	Imperial College London	I am curious person whose research is focused on the understanding and detection of important diseases such as cancer or infections.	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2015
Siana Jones	University College London	I measure changes during exercise using different tools that ‘see’ inside people while they are doing exercise.	Ageing Zone	November 2015
Jesus Calvo-Castro	University of the West of Scotland	I study the properties of compounds that can detect explosives and other chemicals	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2015
Aimee Goodall	University of Birmingham	I’m a metallurgist; I look at how the bits inside metals, that are so small we can’t see with the naked eye, affect how the metal acts and what the metal can be used for – as you wouldn’t want a skyscraper made from your kitchen foil!	Tungsten Zone	November 2015
Carsten Welsch	University of Liverpool	I design and build particle accelerators to help understand nature in all its facets and develop new ways to treat cancer.	Tantalum Zone	November 2015
Maria Magdalena Razalan	Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), University of York	I study some components from plants aiming at finding useful compounds and valuable applications!	Tantalum Zone	November 2015
Monique Henson	University of Manchester	I work with computer models of galaxy clusters, the largest objects in the Universe. I use them to study how the Universe has changed over the last 13 billion years. They can also give us clues about the nature of gravity and dark matter.	Tantalum Zone	November 2015
Bernard Ennis	Tata Steel	I make steel better so that you can crash your car into a tree faster and not get killed.	Tantalum Zone	November 2015
Ashley Hughes	University	I use femtosecond laser pulses to investigate the kinetics of protein structure changes	Tantalum Zone	November 2015
Ross King	The William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London	I’m an immunopharmacologist, which means I use drugs to understand how the immune system works (and what happens when it doesn’t).	Tungsten Zone	November 2015
Robert Lees	University of Bristol, supported by the Wellcome Trust	I look at the living brains/brain cells of mice using cool tools, such as laser microscopes, with the aim to understand how human brains work – I guess you could say I’m a zombie-scientist, except I don’t eat the brains!	Tungsten Zone	November 2015
Hussain Jaffery	The University of Glasgow, supported by the Wellcome Trust.	Bone cells are in an epic battle for domination – with some cells making bone and other cells breaking it – and as a molecular osteoimmunologist, I look at which cells are winning, and why.	Tungsten Zone	November 2015
Gemma Cripps	Southampton University	I research how climate change will affect marine species within the marine food web.	Tungsten Zone	November 2015
Baljit Ghatora		A very varied job where I teach the application of chemistry to forensic science and also spend time researching how to make new safe materials for human use.	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2015
Arlene McBroom	GSK	I analyse unknown samples to work out what they are and where they may have come from.	Spectroscopy Zone	November 2015
Scott Lawrie	Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)	I studied astrophysics at university, so I know all about stars and planets, but now I work on particle accelerators!	Iridium Zone	March 2016
Katy Kellett	University of Hertfordshire	I work with drugs of abuse to find new and inventive ways to detect them for both police offers and doctors.	Toxicology Zone	March 2016
Lauren Laing	University of Exeter / Fisheries Society of British Isles.	I study fish, and try to understand how pollutants can be toxic to wild populations.	Toxicology Zone	March 2016
Richard Friend	Intertek Melbourn	I invent methods for testing medicines, mostly inhalers.	Toxicology Zone	March 2016
Stuart Atkinson	Cleansing Service Group	Saving the environment one drum of toxic waste at a time.	Toxicology Zone	March 2016
andy chapman	Kingston University, London	Trying to make it as an academic	Biochemistry Zone	March 2016
Christopher Blanford	University of Manchester	I work with proteins so we can make energy and chemicals in a greener way.	Biochemistry Zone	March 2016
Vicky Caulfield	MedImmune/AZB	Involved in Flu vaccine stability management	Iridium Zone	March 2016
Jim Barrett	University of Birmingham	I look for cool astrophysics in data that’s so messy, no one else can see it.	Iridium Zone	March 2016
Anais Kahve	University of Exeter Medical School	I look at the processes behind how fatty acids get inside cells.	Toxicology Zone	March 2016
Harriet Reid	University of Bristol	I design and test new proteins to try and build new medicines and materials.	Biochemistry Zone	March 2016
Jessica Groppi	Queen Mary University of London	Currently I work as a teaching assistant, although I recently finished my PhD in Chemistry	Biochemistry Zone	March 2016
Nikki D'Arcy	Auspherix Ltd.	Auspherix	Biochemistry Zone	March 2016
Gaia Andreoletti	University of Southampton	I look for “bad” genetic mutations in children presenting with inflammatory bowel disease with the use of a super-computer	Iridium Zone	March 2016
Adrian Buzatu	University of Glasgow	I write software and analyse huge amounts of data and simulations from the ATLAS experiment at CERN to study the properties of the Higgs elementary particle.	Iridium Zone	March 2016
Paul O'Mahoney	University of Dundee	I research new ways of using light for treating skin diseases	Medical Physics	March 2016
Mobeen Ali	The University of Nottingham	My project involves working on new ways of imaging the amount of iron in the brain using MRI.	Medical Physics	March 2016
Laura Haworth	Dr Valda Gazzard	Vascular Clinical Scientist	Medical Physics	March 2016
andysci			Toxicology Zone	March 2016
Cat Scott ?	University of Leeds	When you walk through a forest you can smell a strong piney odour which comes from chemicals being emitted by the trees ? – I use computer codes ? to understand how these emissions affect the air around us, and the climate of the whole planet!	Climate Change Zone	March 2016
Sam Smith	Queen Mary University of London	I am a behavioural scientist / psychologist that tries to encourage people to change their behaviour to prevent cancer	Fat Zone	March 2016
Hayley Moulding	Cardiff University	My work is inspiring to me, but sometimes my work on sleep gets in the way of sleeping and other days it makes me sleep like a log!!	Gold Zone	March 2016
Richard Sulston	University of Edinburgh (funded by the British Heart Foundation)	I investigate the way hormones in the blood can make us healthier when we eat less food.	Fat Zone	March 2016
Majid Ahmed	The University of Manchester (funded by the British Heart Foundation)	I look at blood vessels from people and animals to find out why the vessels don’t work properly when people become fat (obese).	Fat Zone	March 2016
Hannah Moir	Kingston University London	I am an Exercise Physiologist & Biochemist who investigates the human body’s response to exercise, nutrition and behavioural change at Kingston University, London.	Fat Zone	March 2016
Charlotte Green	Oxford University	I research how fat stored in your liver can impact your health and promote diseases.	Fat Zone	March 2016
Omur Tastan	University of Oxford	I study how stem cells become neurons which will help cure brain diseases	Gold Zone	March 2016
Maddison Coke	UCL	I use beams of molecules, to create tiny structures smaller than the thickness of your hair, one layer of molecules at a time, so we can make smartphones run quicker in the future.	Gold Zone	March 2016
Jimi Wills	University of Edinburgh	I use big expensive mass spectrometers to help other scientists fight cancer	Gold Zone	March 2016
Chris Conselice	University of Nottingham	I study the birth and formation of galaxies through the universe	Gold Zone	March 2016
Iain McLellan	University of the West of Scotland	I’m a chemistry lecturer and I look at air pollution (the stuff that we breathe) and land pollution (where our food grows)	Climate Change Zone	March 2016
Steve Marsden	The University of Manchester	I look for new fundamental particles which could explain how gravity behaves at distances smaller than an atom.	Gravity Zone	March 2016
Emma Dean	University of Southampton	I’m a 1st year PhD student. I investigate how neutron stars emit gravitational waves by growing mountains.	Gravity Zone	March 2016
Christian Killow	Univeristy of Glasgow	I’m part of an international effort to build a spaceborne gravitational wave observatory.	Gravity Zone	March 2016
Greg Melia	University of York	I design new ways of detecting cancer	Medical Physics	March 2016
Alice Harpole	University of Southampton	I’m a second year PhD student, and I model explosions on neutron stars.	Gravity Zone	March 2016
Elaine Mawbey	University of Bristol	Measuring the chemistry of little tiny fossils to find out how climate changed in the past.	Climate Change Zone	March 2016
Olusegun Gabriel Fawole	The Council, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria	a nice combination – thorough and painstaking	Climate Change Zone	March 2016
Helena Quilter	University of Bath	I’m trying to turn waste orange peel and pine trees into plastic bottles!	Climate Change Zone	March 2016
Jen Lowe	University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.	Being a radiotherapy physicist (Band 7 Clinical Scientist) in the NHS at Southampton General Hospital.	Medical Physics	March 2016
Benjamin Bose	Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (Portsmouth)	Testing if the gravity that ties us to Earth works the same as the gravity that ties thousands of galaxies together.	Gravity Zone	March 2016
Giovanna Tancredi	University of Oxford	I perform experiments on very tiny electrical circuits (that I build myself) for the next generation computers	Platinum Zone	March 2016
Lowri Evans	RWE Npower	I work as a Low Carbon Psychologist, which means that I study people’s behaviour in relation to energy consumption and try and discover why they are behaving in a certain way, and see if it can be changed.	Platinum Zone	March 2016
Kelly Houton	A large Chemical company	I work for a large Chemical Company analysing the many facets of intellectual property	Platinum Zone	March 2016
Greg Irving	University of Cambridge	I’m a clinical scientist – I live in the cracks between the NHS and research	Platinum Zone	March 2016
Daniel Biggs	Wellcome Trust Centre For Human Genetics at the University of Oxford	Research Assistant for the Transgenic Core @ Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics	Platinum Zone	March 2016
Sam Briggs	University of Bristol	Working with charged polymers and fatty acids I make compartments that might mimic early life and could be used as a targeted drug delivery system.	Cells Zone	June 2016
Melissa Ladyman	Cranfield University	My job is to find out how explosives travel through the ground, water and air and to make sure that the chemicals do not damage the environment or hurt any animals.	Mercury Zone	June 2016
Hannah Grist	Scottish Association for Marine Science	I research animals, from birds to rhinos to limpets: where they live, why they behave different ways, and how we can protect them	Ecosystems Zone	June 2016
Joanna Bagniewska	University of Reading	I study how animals interact with their environment, and I talk to people about wildlife.	Ecosystems Zone	June 2016
Joe Nunez-Mino	Bat Conservation Trust	Studying animals with the aim of protecting them and educating people as to why we need nature	Ecosystems Zone	June 2016
Luis Perez Calderon	University of Aberdeen	Environmental chemistry, oil spills	Ecosystems Zone	June 2016
Vincent Keenan	University of Liverpool	Uses maths to solve biological problems	Ecosystems Zone	June 2016
Rebecca Thompson	University of Leeds	I am a structural biologist.. I use electron microscopes to study parts of cells, and proteins inside cells.	Cells Zone	June 2016
Kylie Belchamber	National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London	I study white blood cells in the lungs, called macrophages, that eat bacteria (like pacman!).My research focuses on trying to find out what goes wrong with these cells during lung disease	Cells Zone	June 2016
Matthew Dunn	University of Keele and EPSRC	I grow cells from the brain in order to make a model which can be used to study brain diseases and disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease.	Cells Zone	June 2016
Rob Brass	The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre	Not all scientists wear white coats! I work in a cancer hospital where we use beams of radiation to attack tumours!	Cells Zone	June 2016
John Fossey	University of Birmingham	I lead a research team in catalysis and sensing and teach organic chemistry	Catalysis Zone	June 2016
Franco Falcone	University of Nottingham	I work on allergy and infectious diseases, mainly parasites and other bugs (not on viruses)	Parasites Zone	June 2016
Laura Finney	The University of Nottingham	The University of Nottingham	Catalysis Zone	June 2016
Luke Williams	University of Bath	I am looking at a particular bacteria that you would normally find in a compost heap, and seeing if I can use it to make medicines and other chemicals.	Catalysis Zone	June 2016
Robert Williams	Dr Reddys EU ltd	Manufacturing advanced intermediates for specialist drugs	Catalysis Zone	June 2016
Ruth Patchett	University of Warwick	I am a scientist at the University of Warwick	Catalysis Zone	June 2016
Ellen Gill	Cavendish Nuclear	I specialise in designing and analysing shielding against gamma radiation, but know a lot about managing radiation and nuclear waste in general	Bismuth Zone	June 2016
Elliot Jokl	University of York	I’m making mutants to figure out why muscles grow when you use them.	Bismuth Zone	June 2016
Hazel Garvie-Cook	Renishaw	From counterfeit bank notes to the first stages of disease, I use lasers and a microscope to reveal the hidden information that the eye can’t see.	Bismuth Zone	June 2016
Rupesh Paudyal	University of Leeds	Plant roots always grow down and shoots always grow up rather than growing in random directions – why?	Bismuth Zone	June 2016
Thomas Biggans	NHS Grampian	I work in Nuclear Medicine which uses radioactive substances to study how our bodies work. We look at patients’ hearts beating, their stomachs eating and their brains thinking so that we know if something is not working like it should.	Bismuth Zone	June 2016
Daniela Lobo	University of Warwick	I modify the DNA of viruses so they can “see” evil bacteria.	Antibiotics Zone	June 2016
Jonathan Hunter	Centre of Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemistry ♻ at the University of Nottingham	Continuous flow ? photochemistry☀️ using non-invasive ⚗ analysis methods.	Antibiotics Zone	June 2016
Juan Ortiz	University of Dundee		Antibiotics Zone	June 2016
Lindsay Robinson	European Screening Centre, University of Dundee	I work near Glasgow at the European Screening Centre as a chemist.	Antibiotics Zone	June 2016
Danna Gifford	Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester	I study how bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance by doing experiments in the lab and analysing DNA sequences with computers	Antibiotics Zone	June 2016
Claire Bourke	Queen Mary University of London	I am an immunologist investigating how infections (including parasites) and the treatments that clear them affect the cells of the human immune system.	Parasites Zone	June 2016
Jenni Rodd	University College London	I conduct experiments to help us understand how people understand the words that they hear and read. The aim is to help children who find this difficult.	Mercury Zone	June 2016
Christie Waddington	Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Newcastle University.	I’m a PhD Student studying how certain proteins work in the mitochondria.	Thallium Zone	June 2016
Linda Anagu	Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria	I am currently a PhD student in Keele University where I study culturing the malaria parasite and finding out how high temperature and, too much lactate affect the parasite’s ability to cause severe malaria.	Parasites Zone	June 2016
Dan Lewis	GSK	Analytical Formulation Chemist/ Associate Scientist.	Thallium Zone	June 2016
Stuart Cannon	NHS	Clinical Bioinformatician Trainee Scientist	Lead Zone	June 2016
Rob Stanley	University College London	I use maths to investigate how cells work. I also teach other biologists maths and computer programming.	Lead Zone	June 2016
Maheen Siddiqui	Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College	I use brain imaging to understand how babies brains develop.	Lead Zone	June 2016
Euan Allen	The University of Bristol	I work with big, powerful lasers to try and see if we can make a computer using particles of light called photons.	Lead Zone	June 2016
Deborah Prunty	Diageo	I work for a large food and drinks company, analysing suspect counterfeit samples and suporting production sites improve their quality.	Lead Zone	June 2016
Angus Cook	The University of Birmingham	I do all sorts of horrible (well, maybe just unpleasent) things to stainless steels to try to make them rust. If we know when they rust then we can tell when to use stainless steel and when to use something else (like titanium or copper).	Mercury Zone	June 2016
Catherine Ross	Southern Health and Social Care Trust	I am a cardiac scientist	Mercury Zone	June 2016
Arporn (Koi) Wangwiwatsin		I use big data to understand life of parasitic worms that can live for over 10 years in human blood.	Parasites Zone	June 2016
Sian Thomas	Food Standards Agency (government department)	I am the Head of Information Management at the Food Standards Agency	Thallium Zone	June 2016
David Robertson	Glasgow University	Trying to observe gravitational waves using lasers in spacecraft.	Thallium Zone	June 2016
Waqar Ahmed	University of Manchester and Royal Philips B.V.	Finding out if someone has an infection from taking a sample of their breath	Mercury Zone	June 2016
Dawn Lau	King’s College London	I grow cells in a dish to make them mimic the conditions of brain diseases, and then smash the cells apart to see what proteins are causing the damage.	Thallium Zone	June 2016
Mark Booth	Durham University	I am an epidemiologist interested in the challenges of removing parasitic infections that harm vulnerable populations	Parasites Zone	June 2016
Adam Roberts	UCL		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Anne Thomson			Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Elizabeth Beech	NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Carol Roberts			Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Cliodna McNulty	Public Health England		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Lauren Burt	Channel Coastal Observatory	Pattern Spotting: I’m interested in how storms change our coastline	Investigation Zone	November 2016
Marisol Collins	University of Liverpool	Testing: My work involves looking at a parasite of dogs that can spread to sheep, cows, horses and even people!	Investigation Zone	November 2016
Christopher Butler	University of Oxford		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Hannah Bolt	Durham University	I make new drugs for a nasty tropical disease that is caused by parasites	Drug Discovery Zone	November 2016
Jenny Batson	Exonate Ltd.	I do biology experiments with my team to develop new drugs for eye disease, cancer, pain and diabetes.	Drug Discovery Zone	November 2016
Oliver Charity	Norwich Bioscience Institutes Doctoral Training Partnership	Looking at viruses which kill bacteria	Drug Discovery Zone	November 2016
Steven Street	The University of Bristol	making new anti-cancer drugs from sugars that don’t kill healthy cells.	Drug Discovery Zone	November 2016
Andrew Hayward	University College London		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Alastair Hay	University of Bristol (Professor) and Concord Medical Centre (GP)		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Dan Gordon	Anglia Ruskin University	Principal Lecturer: Exercise Physiology and Director for the Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences	Sports Science Zone	November 2016
Ria Vaportzis	Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh)	Why do some people get dementia while others don’t?	Brain Zone	November 2016
Catherine Wigley	TDL Pathology	I work in a private blood transfusion laboratory providing blood products to six hospitals.	Astatine Zone	November 2016
Adrian Chu	Department of Biology, University of York	Finding out functions of genes in a brain-eating bacteria!	Brain Zone	November 2016
Iroise Dumontheil	Birkbeck, University of London	I study the brain and behaviour of adults and adolescents	Brain Zone	November 2016
Joe Bathelt	Medical Research Council UK	In my work, I’m trying to find out what thinking skills are most important for school and what makes some kids brains different from others.	Brain Zone	November 2016
Samantha Watson	Public Health England	I’m a Radiation Scientist for Public Health England	Astatine Zone	November 2016
Ellie Paige	University of Cambridge	I investigate patterns and causes of diseases such as heart attacks	Astatine Zone	November 2016
Darren Rhodes	University of Sussex.	Trying to get Robots to have a human sense of time!	Astatine Zone	November 2016
Andres Olivares del Campo	Durham University	I try to understand the connections between neutrinos and Dark Matter.	Astatine Zone	November 2016
Rachel Harris	University of Bristol	I use human brain tissue to find out what goes wrong in Alzheimer’s disease.	Brain Zone	November 2016
Andrew Willis	British Swimming	Full Time Professional Athlete	Sports Science Zone	November 2016
Sarah Hunak	Amec Foster Wheeler	Observation: My job is to keep people safe from radiation	Investigation Zone	November 2016
Stephanie Millward	British swimming	I am a Paralympic swimmer	Sports Science Zone	November 2016
LauraAnne Furlong	Loughborough University	Measuring how muscles and tendons work during sport using reflective dots and pictures of them from under your skin, to figure out why we move the way we do so one day we could be like Iron-Man	Sports Science Zone	November 2016
Katy Griggs	Loughborough University	I research the body temperature responses of athletes with a spainl cord injury and how sport science can be used in Paralympic sport	Sports Science Zone	November 2016
Helen Hanstock	Mid Sweden University / Swedish Winter Sports Research Centre	I’m working on ways to help athletes to avoid getting sick before big competitions, so that they can perform at their best.	Sports Science Zone	November 2016
Ajay Mishra	King’s College London	Understanding how our skin is maintained throughout our life.	Radon Zone	November 2016
Michael Rivera	I work in a group of scientists, led by a man called Doctor Jay Stock.	Classifying: Have you ever wondered what people did ten thousands years ago?? We can learn a lot from bones in archaeology!	Investigation Zone	November 2016
Eleni Vikeli	John Innes Centre	Finding novel antibiotics from rare sources such as fungus growing ants	Drug Discovery Zone	November 2016
Weiyi Yao	University of Leeds	PhD Student at University of Leeds	Energy Zone	November 2016
Susan Hopkins	Royal Free London and Public Health England		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Reka Nagy	The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh	I study genetics to discover why we look like our relatives, and how our genes make us the way we are.	Radon Zone	November 2016
Olivia Ashton	University of Oxford supervised by Prof Henry Snaith, with the Centre for Doctoral Training in New and Sustainable Photovoltaics	Find materials to save the world from global warming	Energy Zone	November 2016
Jack O'Sullivan	University of Oxford	We try and identify medical tests and treatments that don’t work.	Polonium Zone	November 2016
Lucy Oldacre-Bartley	University of Birmingham	I give vitamins to our muscles to try and make us stronger for longer!	Polonium Zone	November 2016
Miranda Bane	University of Bath	Following bumblebees around meadows and writing computer programs to model possible future extinction events.	Polonium Zone	November 2016
Peter Boorman	University of Southampton	Finding hidden monsters throughout the Universe with X-rays.	Polonium Zone	November 2016
Sarah Taylor			Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Thamarai Schneiders	The University of Edinburgh		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Kuntal Singh	University of York	“Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again — but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.” — Paul Polman	Radon Zone	November 2016
Wendy Thompson			Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Emilia McAllister-Jepps	British Canoeing	I train full time, as an athlete, for Sprint Canoeing	Sports Science Zone	November 2016
Freddie Morrison	Dr Tony Miller	Make plants bigger and better!	Plants Zone	November 2016
Jennifer Bates	Selwyn College, University of Cambridge	Dirt, diet and dung	Plants Zone	November 2016
Kirsten Brandt	Newcastle University	The best part is to find out why eating vegetables is good for us – and use the results to make vegetables even better!	Plants Zone	November 2016
Konstantinos Drousiotis	Dr Gavin Thomas	Teaching bacteria how to find, grab and eat sugars from plants	Plants Zone	November 2016
Zarah Pattison	University of Stirling	Alien plant hunter	Plants Zone	November 2016
Pip Millington	Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	I’m in my fifth year as a doctor, and third year traning in paediatrics.	Radon Zone	November 2016
Huma Shah	Coventry University	Use the Turing test to find if humans can tell if they’re talking to another human or a machine.	Polonium Zone	November 2016
Michael Moore	University of Southampton		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Kate Elliott	NHS	Using x-rays to treat cancer	Radon Zone	November 2016
Ola Michalec	The University of the West of England	I am looking at ways to treat Earth more kindly- in particular – how can we save our energy, food and water?	Energy Zone	November 2016
Mzamo Shozi	University of KwaZulu-Natal	I am a lecturer at University of KwaZulu-Natal and involved in the teaching of 1st years and 2nd and 3rd year Analytical chemistry.	Energy Zone	November 2016
Megan Seymour	Polly Arnold, The University of Edinburgh.	I work in a research lab, investigating the ways in which waste uranium may be able to help us carry out useful reactions.	Energy Zone	November 2016
Martin Fulford	NHS England		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Jeroen Dewulf	Ghent University		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Paul Little	University of Southampton		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Rose Gallagher	Royal College of Nursing		Antibiotics Zone	November 2016
Sophie Nedelec	University of Exeter	Identifying: Behavioural ecologist	Investigation Zone	November 2016
Leah Fitzsimmons	Birmingham University	I’m interested in how viruses can cause cancer, so I compare infected and unifected cancer cells to look for differences.	Cardiff PGR Day Zone	February 2017
Hayley Moulding	Cardiff University	My work is inspiring to me, but sometimes my work on sleep gets in the way of sleeping and other days it makes me sleep like a log!!	Cardiff PGR Day Zone	February 2017
Antony Poveda	Gallomanor Communications Ltd and MangoRolla CIC	I work on the I’m a Scientist Get me out of here competition and other online engagement projects.	Cardiff PGR Day Zone	February 2017
Hannah Sargeant	The Open University	I find different ways of getting water and oxygen from the Moon to help humans one day live on a Moon base	Space Exploration Zone	March 2017
Anthony Caravaggi	Queen’s University Belfast	My project idea: Finding out what birds like to eat – but it’s really up to you!	Enquiry Zone	March 2017
Cathal Breen	Ulster University	My project idea: Improving basic life support through smart phones	Enquiry Zone	March 2017
Mohan K	Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS FT.	I am a Clinical Scientist working in Nuclear Medicine	Medical Physics Zone	March 2017
Hannah Grist	Scottish Association for Marine Science	My project idea: I’d like you to pick your favourite animals, and see why they behave like they do	Enquiry Zone	March 2017
Phil Sutton	Loughborough University	Technical tutor for physics at Loughborough University. Involves teaching both practical and theoretical astrophysics. I am also researching planetary rings by creating computer models.	Space Exploration Zone	March 2017
Jen Dennis	NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	I work in Nuclear Medicine making people radioactive to find out what’s wrong with them.	Medical Physics Zone	March 2017
Daniel Fovargue	King’s College London	I use pictures of sound waves moving through people to help find diseases like cancer.	Medical Physics Zone	March 2017
Christopher Mirfin	Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre	I help design the next generation of MRI scanners to see inside the human body in amazing detail	Medical Physics Zone	March 2017
Sallie Baxendale	Insitute of Neurology	My project idea: Does what you know about someone influence how attractive you think they are?	Enquiry Zone	March 2017
Carrie Ijichi	Hartpury University Centre	I teach students about animal behaviour and welfare – anything from crabs to elephants or your dog at home	Animal Behaviour Zone	March 2017
Cedric Tan	University of Oxford	From the exciting sex lives of the chicken and fruit flies to the elusive behaviour of the forest clouded leopard and creative game design!	Animal Behaviour Zone	March 2017
Ellen Williams	Nottingham Trent University	I am looking at whether elephants have BFFs, and if they do, how do they choose them!	Animal Behaviour Zone	March 2017
Ines Goncalves	University of Bristol	I just started a project to look at how out-group conflict affects within-group interactions, using a social fish species as a model.	Animal Behaviour Zone	March 2017
Rupert Marshall	Aberystwyth University	I teach animal behaviour to my amazing students and when I’m not teaching I find out how and why birds sing	Animal Behaviour Zone	March 2017
Lucy Kissick	University of Oxford	I team up with robot geologists on Mars to see what the planet was up to three billion years ago	Space Exploration Zone	March 2017
Wilhelmiina Toivo		I’m doing research on emotions in language and bilingualism	Decision Zone	March 2017
Rochelle Velho	NHS	I am a medical doctor interested in space medicine.	Space Exploration Zone	March 2017
Marco Esposito	Roslin Institute – Edinburgh University	PhD student at Roslin Institute – Edinburgh University	Radium Zone	March 2017
James Gudgeon	DECIDE.	I advise brands how they can influence the decisions people make with design.	Decision Zone	March 2017
Diana Kornbrot	Freelance statistical consultant, postgraduate workshop facilitator Unoversity of Hertfordshire	Mathematical models of decision making; statistics, wearable computer,for life enhancement	Decision Zone	March 2017
Alex Evans	University of Leeds	I’m working to learn more about how energy is used by birds to fly around their environment.	Radium Zone	March 2017
Sandra Greive	University of York, Department of Chemistry.	Molecular Biologist: engineering new proteins with practical uses.	Francium Zone	March 2017
Lewis Wright	Loughborough University	Studying materials that absorb light and convert it to electricity	Francium Zone	March 2017
James Martin	Shell	Geophysicist – Imaging specialist	Francium Zone	March 2017
Humayra Abdul-Razakq	Poole Hospital NHS Trust	Trainee Clinical scientist in Gastrointestinal Physiology	Francium Zone	March 2017
Dakshat Trivedi	University of Manchester	What is different in human blood of those that are ageing to those that are young? Are men from different ethnic backgrounds ageing differently?	Francium Zone	March 2017
Amanda Barnes	University of York	My work looks at how we can use cells in different ways to repair the body	Radium Zone	March 2017
Olivia Bailey	University of Bath	I try to find ways that we can use our poo to make useful things!	Radium Zone	March 2017
Stephen Pulker	Airbus Defence and Space (2009 – )	I work on the design, manufacture and testing of spacecraft; specifically, I’ve been working on a Mars Rover for the past couple of years.	Space Exploration Zone	March 2017
Craig O'Hare	Lancaster University	I’m an Immunologist, which means I’m working to understand how the immune system works	Organs Zone	March 2017
Devon Smith	University of Sheffield	I’m trying to figure out what causes the kidneys to not function properly when they get ill.	Organs Zone	March 2017
Sha Yu			Radium Zone	March 2017
Andrew Jones		I am a lecturer in psychology (appetite and addiction)	Decision Zone	March 2017
Marta Varela	King’s College London	I use the laws of Physics and big, fast computers to understand how the heart becomes ill and how we can treat it.	Organs Zone	March 2017
Natalie Doig	University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust.	To understand the way that brain cells are connected to each other.	Organs Zone	March 2017
Nicholas Younger	The Medical Research Council and the University of Edinburgh	I use fancy computers and mini-organs grown in the lab to study the genetic changes in liver cancer.	Organs Zone	March 2017
Mary Spiller	University of East London	My work involves teaching and researching the way our senses work together to form our experience of the world around us	Decision Zone	March 2017
Sarah De Vos	The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust	I am a baby (trainee!) Medical Physicist	Medical Physics Zone	March 2017
Jade Owen	I currently work at Intertek Melbourn in Cambridgeshire and also help with social media for SCI.	My project idea: I would like to see how much air you can breathe in is linked with how far you can shoot a blow dart!	Enquiry Zone	March 2017