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 worked at University of Utah, University of Sydney, Imperial College London, and Nanyang Technological University.
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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 a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan in the USA and is now working
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 focused on understanding the pattern formation behind fish spots and zebra stripes. Alongside this research
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 and, in particular, academic life and the uses of knowledge in that period. He has
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 engineering module on medical device evaluation and adoption. Sue has a first degree in Physics,
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 postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, from 2009-2010, and then at Flinders University
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 spent much of his career working as an engineer, researcher and consultant in automotive and
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 or disease (e.g., in dementia). To do so, he uses behavioural measures such as reaction
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 the Centre for Excellence in Rural Health Research. Her current research explores the use of
