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Martin Willis

Martin Willis Cardiff University (formerly University of South Wales) Welsh Crucible 2011 Martin is Reader in English at the University of South Wales, and has previously worked at the Universities of Worcester and Edinburgh. He received his doctorate from Edinburgh in 1997, and since then has focussed his research on the interconnections between literature and

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Bill Wilkinson

Bill Wilkinson Chemistry Teacher (formerly Cardiff University) Welsh Crucible 2011 Bill obtained his B.Sc. in Pharmacology from Bristol University in 2003 and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Molecular Physiology at The University of Manchester in 2006. For the last 5 years he has been a postdoctoral researcher at Cardiff University in three research

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Yingli Wang

Yingli Wang Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2011 Yingli is a lecturer in Logistics and Operations Management at Cardiff Business School. She obtained her first degree in Food Engineering from China in 1995 and an MBA with Distinction in 2003 from the UK. Her PhD research investigated the potential relational, process and technological configurations between organisations

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Carolyn Wallace

Carolyn Wallace University of South Wales Welsh Crucible 2011 Carolyn is a registered nurse and worked in the NHS for 20 years in clinical and managerial roles until she joined the University of South Wales in 2004. Carolyn has been promoted to a Professor in Community Health and Care Services at the University of South

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Raoul van Loon

Raoul van Loon Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2011 Raoul obtained his BSc and MSc in mechanical engineering at University of Technology in Eindhoven. His dissertation project was on the swelling behaviour of intervertebral discs. After this taster in biomedical engineering he decided to complete a PhD on modelling of the aortic valve in the bioengineering

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Eric M. Tippmann

Eric M. Tippmann Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2011 Eric obtained his BSc degree in chemistry from Purdue University in the States. He then completed his Ph.D at The Ohio State University, where his interests were lasers, organic chemistry and biochemistry. PhD studies were followed by postdoctoral studies at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla,

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Bernard Tiddeman

Bernard Tiddeman Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2011 Bernard obtained his BSc degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of St Andrews and his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. For his PhD from Heriot-Watt University he worked with facial surgeons to develop 3D scanning equipment and shape analysis software. He then returned

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Tatiana Tatarinova

Tatiana Tatarinova University of La Verne (formerly University of South Wales) Welsh Crucible 2011 Tatiana obtained her diploma in Theoretical Physics at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Russia), and then received MSc in Physics at University of Utah. After working for two years for different international project lead by WHO, CDS and World Bank, she returned

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Sarah Rodgers

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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Rhys Pullin

Rhys Pullin Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2011 Dr Rhys Pullin is a senior researcher and commercial manager at the Cardiff School of Engineering. He has been working in the field of structural health monitoring since 1997 with his research focusing on the application of Acoustic Emission monitoring. Initial research started in civil structural applications with

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