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Chris Beedie

Chris Beedie University of Kent (formerly Aberystwyth University) Welsh Crucible 2013 Chris obtained his BSc in Sports Science and History at Brunel University London, and completed a PhD in Psychology at the same institution. Following research and teaching posts at several UK institutions he worked as Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology in the

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Anwen Williams

Anwen Williams Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2013 Anwen is a pharmacist and a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Anwen is a Professor in Cardiff University’s School of Medicine. She is also the Director of Postgraduate Research and Deputy Dean of Research (Postgraduate). She is a biomedical research expert who is passionate about defining the

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Peter Theobald

Peter Theobald Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2013 Peter obtained a BEng Medical Engineering from the University of Bradford (2003), and a PhD (focussing on soft tissue injury biomechanics) from Cardiff University (2006). He has also earned a PGCert in University Teaching & Learning (2012) and is a Chartered Engineer. Peter was a post-doc at Cardiff

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Rubén Sevilla

Rubén Sevilla Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2013 Rubén graduated in Mathematics in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He completed his PhD on Applied Mathematics in the UPC and combined his research with teaching activities in four different degrees and one master. He then moved to Swansea University where he was appointed as a research

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Sophie Schirmer

Sophie Schirmer Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2013 Sophie graduated from the University of Oregon with a PhD in Mathematics in 2000. After a short stint at the Open University, she joined the University of Cambridge as a Cambridge-MIT fellow in 2002. In 2006 she was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, and in 2011 she

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Anna Santoro

Anna Santoro Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2013 Anna obtained her degree in Analytical and Physical Chemistry at the University of Ferrara (Italy) in 2004 and her PhD in Environmental Chemistry at the University of Bari (Italy) in 2009. During her PhD, she spent 8 months at ANKA synchrotron facility, in Germany, working on elemental analysis

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Tomás Sánchez López

Tomás Sánchez López Airbus (formerly EADS UK) Welsh Crucible 2013 Tomás obtained his MSc in Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, in 2004, and a PhD in the same discipline at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, in 2008. From there, Tomas moved to Cambridge University where he

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Ali Roula

Ali Roula University of South Wales Welsh Crucible 2013 Ali received his PhD in Computer Science from Queen’s University of Belfast in 2004 in the area applied computer vision for quantitative pathology. He joined the Department of electronics and computer systems engineering at the University of South Wales as a senior lecturer and member of the Medical

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Helen Roberts

Helen Roberts Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2013 Helen gained her PhD from the University of Liverpool, studying a topic which combined physical geography, physics and chemistry. Her postdoctoral work was conducted at the Universities of Durham (Archaeology Department), Exeter (Geography Department), and then Aberystwyth (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences). In 2005, she secured a

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Jeroen Nieuwland

Jeroen Nieuwland University of South Wales (formerly Cardiff University) Welsh Crucible 2013 Jeroen completed his PhD in plant cell biology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands in 2004. His thesis was about the discovery of a new type of plant cell wall loosening protein and its effect on plan growth and reproduction. He then

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