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Charlotte E Davies

Charlotte E Davies Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2019 Charlotte is a Bluefish Scientific Officer within the Comparative Immunology and Pathobiology group at Swansea University. Her research focuses on diseases in marine ecosystems, which have the potential to alter ocean life, and the coastal communities that rely upon it. Charlotte obtained her BSc in Biology and

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Novella Franconi

Novella Franconi Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2019 Novella obtained her BSc & MSc degree in Ecological Biosciences at the University of Pisa (Italy). She then worked four years in research applied to wildlife management before moving on and complete a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Technology at the University of Siena (Italy). After a career

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Claire Hanley

Claire Hanley Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2019 Claire conducts research into neural plasticity; incorporating neuroimaging techniques and non-invasive brain stimulation methods to determine how our brains adapt as part of the ageing process. She actively engages in opportunities to raise public awareness of how older adults can maintain their cognitive function for as long as

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Richard Metcalfe

Richard Metcalfe Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2019 Richard is a Lecturer in Human and Exercise Physiology within the Applied Sport Technology, Exercise and Medicine (ASTEM) Research Centre at Swansea University. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Sport and Exercise Science from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in 2010, and subsequently completed his PhD in exercise

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Emily Preedy

Emily Preedy Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2019 Emily obtained her BSc (Hons) in Forensic Science at Glamorgan University, and went on to complete an MSc in Nanomedicine at Swansea University, later gaining a PhD in Bionanotechnology at Cardiff University investigating the effects of nanoparticles on the longevity of implanted biomedical devices. She has been involved

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Michael Togneri

Michael Togneri Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2019 Michael obtained his M.Eng. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Glasgow, then completed a Ph.D. in the maths department at Cardiff University looking at small-scale turbulence in boundary layer flows. His current work is with the Marine Energy Research Group at Swansea University, dealing with a range

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Tamsyn Uren Webster

Tamsyn Uren Webster Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2019 Tamsyn is a Research Officer within the Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture Research at Swansea University. Her research interests broadly focus on the impacts of environmental stressors on animal and ecosystem health and, specifically, elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying these effects. Tamsyn completed her PhD, in molecular ecotoxicology,

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Xiuyi Fan

Xiuyi Fan Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2018 Xiuyi Fan (Fan) is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University. He obtained his BSc, MSc degrees from University of Utah, and PhD from Imperial College London. Before joining Swansea, Fan worked at University of Utah, University of Sydney, Imperial College London, and Nanyang Technological University.

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Tomás Irish

Tomás Irish Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2018 Tomás Irish is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Swansea University. He completed his BA and PhD degrees at Trinity College Dublin. He is a historian of the First World War and inter-war Europe and, in particular, academic life and the uses of knowledge in that period. He has

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Ruth Horry

Ruth Horry Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2018 Ruth obtained her BSc degree in Psychology at the University of Nottingham, before completing her Masters Degree in Research Methods and PhD at the University of Sussex. Following her PhD, Ruth worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, from 2009-2010, and then at Flinders University

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