Chris Finlayson Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2013 Chris graduated with a degree in Physics from the University of Birmingham in 1998. His PhD research at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge explored aspects of the synthesis, characterisation and applications of…
Elaine Ferguson
Elaine Ferguson Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2013 After graduating from the University of Manchester with a Master of Pharmacy degree, Elaine qualified as a pharmacist before completing her PhD in nanomedicine at Cardiff University. Elaine then undertook several interdisciplinary post-doc…
William Davies
William Davies Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2013 William obtained an M.Biochem degree at the University of Bath, and went on to complete a PhD at the University of Cambridge. After four years of postdoctoral work at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge…
Andrew Davies
Andrew Davies University of Rhode Island (formerly Bangor University) Welsh Crucible 2013 Andrew’s career in marine biology began with an undergraduate degree in Coastal Marine Biology at the University of Hull. This was followed by a PhD at Queen’s University…
Michael Coffey
Michael Coffey Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2013 Michael is a registered mental health nurse and academic. He obtained his BSc degree from London South Bank and an MSc from Middlesex. Michael completed his PhD at Swansea University while lecturing and…
Alastair Clarke
Alastair Clarke Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2013 Alastair graduated with an MEng in Mechanical Engineering, and subsequently obtained a PhD in Tribology both from Cardiff University. Following a period as a research associate, Alastair moved to Swansea Metropolitan University where…
Amanda Clare
Amanda Clare Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2013 Amanda is a Lecturer in the Bioinformatics Group in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University. Previously she held an EPSRC/RAEng Research Fellowship and before that, a Fellowship from the Royal Commission…
Daniel Burgarth
Daniel Burgarth Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2013 Daniel graduated with a degree in Physics from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2004. His PhD research at University College London until 2007 explored aspects of quantum state transfer in one-dimensional spin…
Karianne Backx
Karianne Backx Cardiff Metropolitan University Welsh Crucible 2013 Karianne obtained her BSc degree in Human Movement Sciences and Physiology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and went on to complete an MSc (Maastricht University, Netherlands), MPhil (Birmingham University, UK) and…
Nathan Abrams
Nathan Abrams Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2013 Nathan obtained his BA degree in Modern History at Oxford University and went on to complete an MA and PhD in American Studies at Birmingham University. Since then Nathan has worked in London,…