Xiuyi Fan

Xiuyi Fan Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2018 Xiuyi Fan (Fan) is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University. He obtained his BSc, MSc degrees from University of Utah, and PhD from Imperial College London. Before joining Swansea, Fan…

Vicki Brown

Vicki Brown University of South Wales Welsh Crucible 2018 Vicki graduated from the University of Exeter with a Masters in Mathematics and went on to complete a PhD at the University of Bath in Mathematical Biology. In 2010 she began…

Thomas Woolley

Thomas Woolley Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2018 Dr Thomas Woolley studied mathematics at University of Oxford between 2004-2017 and is now a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics in Cardiff. Through his education he ended up specialising in mathematical biology, where his doctorate…

Tomás Irish

Tomás Irish Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2018 Tomás Irish is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Swansea University. He completed his BA and PhD degrees at Trinity College Dublin. He is a historian of the First World War and inter-war Europe…

Sue Peirce

Sue Peirce Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2018 Sue is a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering at Cardiff University. She evaluates medical devices using systematic review methods, health economic modelling and clinical trials, and also runs a 3rd year medical…

Sioned Pearce

Sioned Pearce Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2018 Dr Sioned Pearce researches devolved social policy in the UK and Europe. She examines the formation and impact of specific social policies to address welfare, poverty and (youth) unemployment, under different devolved and decentralised…

Ruth Horry

Ruth Horry Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2018 Ruth obtained her BSc degree in Psychology at the University of Nottingham, before completing her Masters Degree in Research Methods and PhD at the University of Sussex. Following her PhD, Ruth worked as a…

Rukshan Navaratne

Rukshan Navaratne University of South Wales Welsh Crucible 2018 Rukshan obtained his PhD in Aerospace Engineering at Cranfield University and currently working as a lecturer in the Aeronautical Engineering Department at University of South Wales. Before joining academia, he has…

Richard Binney

Richard Binney Bangor University Welsh Crucible 2018 Richard is a neuroscientist who researches the way the human brain stores and uses our knowledge of people, objects, and words.  Further, he tries to understand how these abilities break down following brain injury…

Rachel Rahman

Rachel Rahman Aberystwyth University Welsh Crucible 2018 Rachel has a BSc honours degree in Psychobiology from the University of North London and a PhD in Psychology from Aberystwyth University. Rachel is a senior lecturer at Aberystwyth University and the Director of…