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Tom Louth
About Me:
I live in Edinburgh in Scotland, and I enjoy climbing and running. I live with two dogs.
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Stuart Clare
About Me:
I live in Oxford, and when not doing medical research I support our local swimming club as a timekeeper and official.
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Steve Potterill
About Me:
I live with my wife (author and illustrator) and cat (mouse-botherer) in a village near the Malvern hills. For work: mostly engineering and project management. For leisure: rugby (these days just watching) and skiing (still racing).
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Stefan Bon
About Me:
Originally from the Netherlands, I live with my husband ,who is from China, in Coventry. I am a first generation professor in polymer and colloid chemical engineering in the day. In our free time we enjoy weekend trips, cooking, gardening, and watching fantasy/sci-fi. 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🇳🇱🇨🇳
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Sam Page
About Me:
I live in a small town in between London and Cambridge, in the same town as my workplace. At weekends, I explore my local area or travel to Lincoln to stay with my partner. I love watching movies and reading books, especially science-fiction.
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Rhanna Turberville
About Me:
I live on the Shetland Islands, as far in the North of Scotland as you can go. I work as a biologist looking after the health and welfare of around 4 million salmon. I love growing my own food and looking after my pet ferrets and chickens.
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Rachel Wynn-Sayers
About Me:
I am an Air Quality Scientist living in Sussex with my husband and our two kids, two cats and two reptiles (a Leopard Gecko and a Royal Python). I love animals, nature, walking, going to the gym and doing craft projects.
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Rachel Edwards
About Me:
I’m a physicist, and I do research into how to use sound waves to keep things safe. I teach university students about how different materials behave, and how to do electronics. I have two small kids and love making them new clothes with things like space unicorns on them.
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Paul Machin
About Me:
I am an Global Operations Director for Johnson Matthey, live in Cambridge with my family (2 children, 6 and 11). I look after teams in the USA, India, UK and China.
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Paul Knight
About Me:
I live in Oxfordshire with my wife, two kids, and two chickens. I really love technology and am happy I get paid for work I enjoy so much, I’d even do it for no money! When I’m not setting up my smart home, playing video games, or practicing shooting, I’m usually at the gym or playing the piano or guitar.
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Patrick Lennard
About Me:
Hey! 😊 I’m Pat, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. My research is focused on making drugs to fight superbugs, but I’ve also worked a lot with immunology, stem cells, and the transmissible Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease.
When I’m not behind a microscope, I’ll be hiking across country, training for a marathon, or likely cooking up a storm in the kitchen 🏔🏃♂️👨🍳
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Obi Umegbolu
About Me:
I love to be happy and belive that even work should always be fun…so we never have to ‘work’ again.
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Mohan Sridharan
About Me:
I am an academic interested in robots, AI, cartoons, and the real-world impact of scientific developments.
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Matthew Wadge
About Me:
Hi! I’m Matt and I’m a Materials Scientist that lives in Sandbach, Cheshire and works at Manchester Metropolitan University. I live with my partner Alice and my partially-sighted Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Bert (see picture of him flying!) 🐶. If I am not in the lab, you can usually find me playing video games, swimming, travelling, playing football or drinking a lot of coffee (definitely not all at the same time 😉)
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Martin Johnsson
About Me:
Hi! My name is Martin, and I’m looking forward to speaking with you as part of this zone. I’m an animal geneticist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. I work with the DNA of cows, pigs and chickens … and sometimes dogs, horses, any farm, companion or sport animal, really.
Status: Live chatting was intense and fun. Whew.
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Martina Conti
About Me:
I’m Italian but I’ve been living in York for 11 years. I’m a chemist during the day, and in my free time I enjoy yoga, martial arts, reading, playing the piano and travelling. I live with my partner and we have a tropical fish tank, but I hope one day we can have a puppy!
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Luke Tuxworth
About Me:
I live with my wife and 1 year old son in North Yorkshire. I am research scientist in a chemical company. I love hiking, motorsport and growing my own vegetables.
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Liz Barron-Majerik
About Me:
I always loved plants (their beautiful diversity and use in medicine) and was very jealous that my mum seemed to know all their names. So I studied all the sciences at school, then went to Edinburgh to study Botany (called plant science these days).
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Kim Nash-Game
About Me:
I live with my wife and Shelby our dog in Essex 🐾.
I am a registered Biomedical Scientist and currently work at Siemens, training people how to run patients blood samples.
In the summer I love taking pictures of the night sky and flying our drone called Doris.
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Jozsef Vuts
About Me:
I am an enthusiastic scientist, who is very interested in all living things, especially insects. I ask a lot of questions about them and try my best to answer these questions.
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Jordan Galloway
About Me:
I am about to move back to Scotland (from the south of England) with my family – my wife Kerry and my two boys Lachlan (5 yrs) and Brodie (2 yrs).
I enjoy playing golf and getting out playing with my boys – we really like the trampoline parks for bouncing and soft plays.
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Jon Newnham
About Me:
I am a chemist who studies how materials can conduct electricity inside of a battery.
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Jemma Kerns
About Me:
I live in Lancashire with my husband and son. I always start my working day with a mocha, and another chocolate intake at 3pm! I’m a wife, Mum, daughter, sister, auntie, friend, scientist, and kick-boxer!
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Jed Lennox
About Me:
I live in Glasgow and work as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Glasgow in the Medical, Veterinary, and Life Sciences Graduate School. Outside of teaching I play and coach hockey and love going to see live music!
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Hamish Cavaye
About Me:
I love computer games and board games as well as cooking, brewing my own beer, and using one of my three telescopes to take photos of planets and galaxies.
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Gareth Morgan
About Me:
Dog owner. Cant sing. Cant spell/type under pressure.
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Eloisa Brook
About Me:
I live with my partner , 2 children and 2 cats in a small town in Hertfordshire. My children are 13 and 9 and go to the same middle school.
We recently went to Disneyland Paris which was so much fun.
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Elaine Ho
About Me:
I live with my partner in Stockport, Manchester, but I’m originally from Malaysia. I’m a research software engineer and I enjoy climbing, cooking, gardening and DIY.
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Edd Bilbe
About Me:
I live and work just north of Reading. I normally cycle to work and I cook from scratch every day. I am dyslexic and very good at my job.
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Don Clark
About Me:
I’m a retired Analytical Chemist and now have my own business giving guided walking tours in and around Canterbury. I like progressive rock music, walking and beer!
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Daisy Shearer
About Me:
I’m a PhD student in experimental quantum physics who drinks way too many cups of tea. When I’m not in the lab I like to read, bake, knit and play with my cat.
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Cliff Williams
About Me:
I am and engineer who lives in Manchester. I work at customer sites all over the UK.
Outside of work I enjoy being with my grand children, swimming, martial arts, dancing and watching sport. -
Clare Wharmby
About Me:
I live in Edinburgh with my partner and two kids (and two gerbils). I love secondhand shopping, science fiction books and napping.
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Chris Bridges
About Me:
I live with my partner near Guildford. By day I teach electronics for space and running a team of researchers at the University of Surrey. By night, I like python coding, playing with amateur radio, practicing my terrible guitar skills, and attempting to learn Japanese.
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Charlotte McNeill
About Me:
I live with my boyfriend in the Toon of Newcastle! I am a User Experience Analyst working as an employee at DXC Technology. 🤓 My hobbies include canoeing, yoga and training my dog who is a Rottweiler. 🛶 🧘 🐾 I also love going to sea dips at the beach, watching futuristic TV shows like Black Mirror, and my favourite kind of food are Greek gyros or Tacos! 🌊📺🌮
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Caroline Roche
About Me:
I am a Control Systems Engineer, developing software for the nuclear industry. In my spare time, I like to spend as must as possible outdoors; exploring, hiking or down on the archery field.
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Callum Morris
About Me:
Im a Scottish graduate who has lived in Chester for 8 years with my now fiancé.
Work as an engineer, but in my free time I’m an avid gamer, and member of a local cricket team.
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Bernice Ridley
About Me:
I’m a cosmetic scientist, I have worked for many years and am passionate about cosmetic science and education!
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Anna Dickinson-Lomas
About Me:
I’m a materials science researcher, and I live with my partner in Birmingham. I love reading, gluten-free baking and going out for coffee, but my absolute favourite thing to do is travelling!
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Anirudh Sharma
About Me:
Ph.D from Teesside University. I study medicines in gas form, how they break up and how they react. If I can understand how they react, I can find out how they work in our body.
I use one of the most advanced form of chemistry to study the fundamentals of chemistry.
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Andrew Richardson
About Me:
I live in Glasgow, Scotland, with my dog and wife.
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Andrew McDowall
About Me:
Full time chemist, part time history and mythology buff and former backswordsman with a taste for cheese and bad habit of idle dreaming.
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Andrew Lyon
About Me:
Hi, I’m Andrew. I live with my partner, 2 dogs, 2 guinea pigs and a rabbit. I work for the Environment Agency and in my spare time I write and produce music and also write about all things music on my website.
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Amin Kassab-Bachi
About Me:
I live in Leeds with my cat, wife and two children. I enjoy gardening and reading books (or just learning!)
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Alexander De Bruin
About Me:
I live with my wife (a science teacher!) in Reading. By day I am a research scientist and by night I sing with and/or run several choirs. My non-work life is completely filled with music and I even judge singing competitions! I also enjoy cooking, cycling, and reading sci-fi/fantasty novels.
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Abigail Frith
About Me:
I am a Yorkshire chemist who has crossed the Pennines to live in Lancashire after living in Yorkshire all my life! I live in a beautiful little house on the edge of the sprawling countryside and love having all my friends and family around for big walks and cosy evenings in.
