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William Tolmie
About Me:
I am a trainee clinical scientist in Bristol working in St. Michael’s hospital. I play A LOT of sports and you’ll find me in the cinema most weeks. I finished university last year in Newcastle and am new to the South West!
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Will Breeze
About Me:
UK based Chemist. I enjoy reading, walking, and dogs.
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Tobias Baskin
About Me:
I live out in the countryside in New England. Not old England. I am a professor of Biology at a Uni here, teaching and studying about plants. I love music, art, gardening, and going for long walks in the woods.
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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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Rosmita Borthakur
About Me:
Hi, I’m Rosmita and I am a researcher in Chemistry. I love photography and travelling.
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Robert Grand
About Me:
Hello! I’m an astronomer living in Liverpool with my family. I love playing 5-a-side football, going for hikes, and Lord of the Rings!
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Robbie Lynch
About Me:
I live in Dundee, Scotland with my partner. I work for Abbott Laboratories as a QC Analyst during the week and I am obsessed with football on the weekends.
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Rebecca von Hellfeld
About Me:
Hi, my name is Rebecca! I am a marine biologist and am super passionate about saving the ocean! 🐳 I live in Aberdeen, Scotland, with my dog Scoby (a wild springer spaniel who can make the cutest face to get out of all sorts of trouble! 🐶) and my partner. In my spare time I love being out and about, enjoying the sun (when we get it…), or spending time with friends.
I look forward to reading your questions and maybe one or two of you want to be a marine biologist as well by the end! 🐬
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Rebecca Saleeb
About Me:
Hello! I’m Beccy – I live in Edinburgh with my fiancé and our dog, Mollie. I love travelling and chocolate is my greatest weakness!!
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Raymond Cadoc Miles
About Me:
I live in Cambridge. I love Sicilian food, Judo and Kayaking. I am a clinical scientist in Bioinformatics.
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Paul Wiggins
About Me:
I live near Durham with my wife and two kids. I am an analytical chemist working near Middlesbrough. I love reading fantasy books and playing table tennis, and I am a member of my local church.
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Nuno Brito
About Me:
I am a Portuguese PhD student living, studying and researching in Plymouth. I specialize in a branch of Theoretical Physics called Quantum Field Theory, which tries to describe how particles behave and interact with each other. Whenever I am not pushing the boundaries of our physics knowledge, I am either working out or playing (maybe too much) computer games!
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Nicholas Shipley
About Me:
Hello, I’m Nick. I was born in Hull but now live in York with my family. I’m an Aircraft Engineer in the Royal Air Force.
I enjoy lots of different sports, especially Football and Rugby League.
I keep myself fit by doing lots of running and love taking my dog out for a walk.
I have 3 children so enjoy playing games and building Lego.
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Natasha Pushkin
About Me:
Originally from Essex/East London I now live in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire with my husband and cat Varjaka.
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Matthew Gata Esperanca
About Me:
I currently live down in Plymouth. I work as a Naval Architect, which means I am an Engineer that gets involved with fixing and working on submarines and surface ships on the naval base here. During my spare time I enjoy going snowboarding and playing games.
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Martin Pike
About Me:
I am a 52 year old married father of two children, a radiologist by trade, I am interested in many subjects beyond my work, especially aeroplanes. I build balsa wood planes that fly by themselves.
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Martin McCoustra
About Me:
I’m a Scottish Astrochemist!
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Mark Basham
Status: Looking forward to answering your questions!
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Lucy Crockford
About Me:
I live in a town called Shrewsbury on the beautiful River Severn but I’m originally from Ireland. I’ve always been interested in the natural environment and water particularly so I lot of what I’m interested in is related to those topics BUT I also enjoy cricket and ballroom dancing!
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Kate Belson
About Me:
I live with my friends in Bristol. I’m an engineer by day, and I enjoy reading, Pilates, running, travel and rock climbing! I’m also improving my cooking and baking skills, and love spending time with my dog 🐶
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Julie Willecomme
About Me:
I live with my partner Matt and Gin (our very chatty cat) in Royston. I am an analytical scientist turned science communicator. When I’m not working, I enjoy travelling, exercising and watching bingeable series & great movies on streaming services.
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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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Jonathan Shaw
About Me:
I am a full time Scientist living in London – doing research and development on technologies that help clean the air we breathe! I love music such as jazz, enjoy gaming, chess and football. 🎶🕹️⚽️
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John Easton
About Me:
Some people think I work in IT. Really though I get to ‘play’ with cool technology, use it to solve interesting problems and get paid to do that 🙂
I have a family (a wife, two sons and cats) and we live in Hampshire. I’m a big fan of Lego (especially Spike and Serious Play) and a long-distance trail runner in my spare time.
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Jennifer Larwood
About Me:
I am the Registration and Licensing Manager for the Science Council, trying to make it more straightforward for all Scientists to be professionally registered and valued.
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Hollie Wright
About Me:
Hi, I’m Hollie! I’m a researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. I build lasers and develop advanced LiDAR (light detection and ranging) techniques in our optics lab.
I live with my partner, Byron and our dog, Rufus. In my spare time I like watching movies and walking in nature with Byron and Rufus. I also love eating tasty food like sushi and fried chicken!
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Emma Thorpe
About Me:
I am a water and soil chemist living in West Yorkshire. I lead a team of 8 analysts. I like solving problems and helping people.
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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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Dave Baker
About Me:
I run the DNA sequencing facility at the Quadram, I love all things football related and manage an under 12’s football team. I love going to the Greek Island of Corfu for my holidays.
Status: Vote Davo!!!!!!
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Daniel Friedrich
About Me:
I am originally from Germany but I live with my wife in Edinburgh. I’m a professor and research in energy engineering. Outside of work I like to play football, go hiking, listen to power metal and play computer games.
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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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Ciara Byers
About Me:
I live with my fiancé near Oxford. I love cats, the fluffier the better! I like to play board games, and video games too. I’m very clumsy so I’m not very good at sports 😅 But I do play taiko (that’s Japanese drums), which can be very energetic!
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Catherine Perry
About Me:
I live in Nottingham and outside of working for the Royal Society of Chemistry, I like to sing and perform in musicals 🎭 I also love forensic science, travel and reading!
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Carly Bingham
About Me:
I live near London with my husband. I work in a children’s hospital during the day and in the evening I like to play video games and crochet. I love playing board games and reading.
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Annabel Golding
About Me:
Hi my name is Annabel and I am currently on industrial placement but I study Chemical Engineering at University! I like playing hockey, running, knitting and have recently got into climbing!
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Andy Law
About Me:
I live in a town called Penicuik, which is just south of Edinburgh. I work at The Roslin Institute where my job involves interactions with dozens of research scientists. My job is to make sure that we have the right computer systems available for my colleagues to use in their analyses. Outside of work, my dog takes up a lot of time and rugby takes up all the rest.
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Adriana D'SOUZA
About Me:
I live with my husband and daughter in Bristol. I’m an engineer working for planes in the landing gear department and I like playing basketball. I love reading and listening to the radio. We all love a good sushi in our house.
