Wayne Aubrey

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…

Amy Baldwin

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…

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.…

Rhys Dafydd Jones

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…

Elaine Dunlop

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…

Timothy Easun

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…

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…

Gil Greengross

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…

Gillian Jein

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…

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…