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I recently had two beautiful twin baby boys (yes they are identical!). Love to play with them and watching them grow. Loving getting them interested in science from an early age with the ‘Baby University’ books!

When not working, I love being out in nature, be it hiking, camping etc. Nothing makes you feel freer or gives you time to think (or sometimes not think!) than being out on a nice day for long hard walk, with a thermos of coffee and a nice pack lunch.

Also enjoy singing in my local choir where we sing everything from Taylor Swift to Chappel Roan to the Killers. Really makes me feel part of a community and brings joy to my heart when singing my heart out!

Love food and cook all the time, recently got a bread maker! I find coffee fascinating; from growing the beans to the roasting to the coffee preparation itself. So many amazing processes, lots of cool science and engineering and so much to learn for other industries.

I am a Senior Crystallisation Scientist working for AstraZeneca. In my job, I am responsible for making the right material at the end of the chemistry so that it can be made into a medicine that you or I would take. It involves working with lots of different types of scientists and us all working together to make sure that the drugs that we are making work (and work well!) and are safe for patients.

When I work in the lab, I need to plan out my experiments, get all the equipment together and start the preparation. In my job, the aim is try and design a process to make the material we need to make the drug. To do this, I usually I run two types of experiments; firstly I need to understand how my material behaves under different conditions and secondly, I need to take that learning and build a process so I can get the material we need.

I work on lots of projects for different types of drugs for lots of different types of diseases. I need to work with many different scientists and other specialists to get the things we need to make the drug. To make sure that we making the right things at the right time, we need to have lots of meetings to discuss what we are going to do.

I love working with my colleagues and learn something new every day. I am lucky that I have a job that I enjoy. However, it is important to remember that we are at work for long periods of the day all week, every week so it is important to have a work culture that you want to be part of and enjoy coming to. That is why I am part of our wellbeing team, making sure that everyone is ok and trying to make our work lives the best they could possibly be!