Alvin Orbaek White

Alvin Orbaek White Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2017 Alvin is chemist (PhD) with a history of physics (BSc), who is now in the college of engineering at Swansea University (Senior Lecturer), having just arrived from MIT (Department of Engineering). He…

Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2017 Chris received his BS degree in Biology from Belmont Abbey College, received his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Utah, and did his post-doctoral research at the University of Georgia. Currently, he…

Martin Clift

Martin Clift Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2016 Martin obtained his PhD in nanoparticle toxicology at Edinburgh Napier University, after which he spent seven years in Switzerland where he undertook his post-doctoral research career, becoming a Scientific Group Leader in 2012.…

Jeffrey Giansiracusa

Jeffrey Giansiracusa Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2016 Jeff obtained BSc degrees in mathematics and physics at University of Washington in Seattle and then completed a PhD in mathematics at Oxford, funded by a US National Science Foundation research fellowship.  He…

Rowena Jenkins

Rowena Jenkins Swansea University (formerly Cardiff Metropolitan University) Welsh Crucible 2016 Rowena obtained her degree in Microbiology from Aberystwyth University and went on to complete her PhD ‘the effect of manuka honey on the cell cycle of MRSA’ using microbiology…

Alex Jones

Alex Jones Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2016 Alex obtained his BSc degree in Psychology at Bangor University in 2010, and went on to complete his PhD there in 2013. He then moved to Gettysburg College in the United States, where…

Kelly Mackintosh

Kelly Mackintosh Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2016 Kelly received a BSc (Hons) degree in Sport and Exercise Science from the University of Bath in 2008 followed by an MSc in Sports Science from Loughborough University in 2009.  She then completed…

Melitta McNarry

Melitta McNarry Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2016 Melitta specialises in cardiorespiratory fitness across the health, fitness and lifespan with a particular interest in paediatric populations. er recent work has focused on the development of non-pharmacological intervention strategies, such as inspiratory…

Geertje Van Keulen

Geertje Van Keulen Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2016 Geertje obtained her MSci degree in Biochemistry and completed a PhD in Microbial Physiology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. After working as a postdoc in her first interdisciplinary project, she…

James Cronin

James Cronin Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2015 James has an interest in the fundamental molecular mechanisms of     chronic inflammatory diseases. He obtained his BSc in Microbiology from King’s College London and was awarded a PhD in chronicinflammationand cancer from Swansea…