Wayne Aubrey Aberyswyth University Welsh Crucible 2016 Wayne obtained his BSc degree in Biochemistry at Aberystwyth University. He went on the complete an MSc in Bioinformatics at Exeter University before returning to Aberystwyth to complete a PhD in molecular biology / Computer Science. Having completed post-doc positions at Aberystwyth and Manchester University he returned to
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Amy Baldwin Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2016 Amy obtained her B.Sc. degree in Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) from the University of Leicester and subsequently a Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Genetics. Amy specialises in generating and utilising large collections of variants. Currently based in Cardiff School of Biosciences, Amy is generating a large collection of Dictyostelium variants
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. Since December 2015, Martin has been a Lecturer in nanotoxicology at Swansea University Medical School.
Rhys Dafydd Jones Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2016 Rhys completed his BA, MA, and PhD at Aberystwyth, and was appointed Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol lecturer in Human Geography in 2011. He also completed his BA, MA, and PhD in the same institution. A social geographer, his work examines the experiences of religious groups and immigrants in
Elaine Dunlop Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2016 Elaine obtained her BSc (Hons) degree in Biochemistry from Queen’s University, Belfast, and stayed to study for a PhD in cancer biology, which included a period spent at the University of Pennsylvania. She then moved to Cardiff University to commence post-doctoral research into signalling pathways underlying genetic diseases
Timothy Easun Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2016 Dr Timothy Easun is a Royal Society University Research Fellow recently appointed in the School of Chemistry at Cardiff University. His research is on the control of nanoscale flow of molecules within porous materials using photochemistry both as probe and actuator to make nanofluidic devices. Dr Easun was
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 spent a year in Paris before returning to Oxford as a junior research fellow at
Gil Greengross Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2016 Gil is originally from Israel, where he obtained his undergraduate degree in psychology, anthropology and sociology. He earned his Master’s degree in statistics and a PhD in evolutionary anthropology from the University of New Mexico. Gil recently moved to Aberystwyth from Canada where he completed a postdoctoral fellowship
Gillian Jein Newcastle University (formerly Bangor University) Welsh Crucible 2016 Gillian studied for her BA in French and History at Trinity College, Dublin and her MPhil at the Sorbonne before returning to Trinity to complete a doctoral thesis that looked at French travel writing about London and New York. She taught at the University of
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 and molecular techniques at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is currently a lecturer of microbiology within
