Sarah Rodgers Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2011 Sarah obtained her undergraduate degree in geographical science at Portsmouth University before completing her Masters and PhD degrees at Reading University. She is now working as a lecturer in the College of Medicine at Swansea University. She uses spatial and non-spatial health, social and environment data to investigate
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Simon Neill Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2011 Simon has a BEng in civil engineering from the University of Dundee, and went on to complete a PhD in civil engineering and oceanography from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. After 6 years working on various applied oceanography projects as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of
Elaine Jensen Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2011 Elaine left a career in banking to travel and undertake conservation work and from this her enthusiasm for renewable and sustainable systems developed. She returned to education as a mature student and received a PhD studentship to continue her BSc dissertation project interest in legume-rhizobia interactions, an important
Jan Geert Hiddink Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2011 Jan obtained a degree in Marine Biology from Groningen University in the Netherlands and continued to complete a PhD there. He started a postdoc at Bangor University to study the large scale effects of bottom trawls on the benthic ecosystem in a DEFRA funded study. Jan was
Michael Harbottle Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2011 Michael obtained his doctorate through the study of enhanced biological remediation of contaminated land, a theme which continues to this day in his research. Since 2006 he has been a lecturer in geoenvironmental engineering at Cardiff School of Engineering. His research interests have expanded to include more broad
James Gibbons Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2011 James obtained his BA degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and went on to complete a PhD in tropical forest ecology at Stirling University. He then worked at University of Nottingham modelling impact and mitigation of climate change. He is now Lecturer in Ecological Modelling
Leanne Cullen-Unsworth Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2011 Leanne has a B.Sc. in Marine Biology from Newcastle University, a M.Sc. in Marine Environmental Protection from Bangor University and a Ph.D. from Essex University. After completing a CSIRO postdoctoral fellowship in Australia, Leanne returned to the UK to take up a Research Fellowship within the newly formed
