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18 May 2017: When I came to Cambridge I thought I’d end up in Physics, but I’m currently in my third year doing Materials Science! I’d barely even heard of materials science before I did Natura

12 Jan 2017: As a researcher on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, one of the things I love about my job is that on a day-to-day basis I get to interact with scientists from different backg

8 Jun 2017: Halfway through my degree, I can confidently say that there’s nothing I would rather be doing. Physics is a stimulating subject in so many ways, allowing a really deep understanding of how the

23 Mar 2017: I never really classed myself as a scientist; after all, I was arty, a writer, a people person and more into ‘why’ than ‘how’. Art and English literature were ‘my thing

2 Feb 2017: Some people see beauty in the works by the great Masters of the Renaissance or in the words of Shakespeare, but I see beauty in the cellular world. It’s only when you sit back, slow down and loo

16 Nov 2017: In addition to doing research in Maths, I have been teaching at university since I was myself an undergraduate: in different roles, about different topics, and to different types of students. I was a

23 Nov 2017: For me, the most important transition in the evolution of life on Earth is the one that occurred over half a billion years ago during the Ediacaran time period. Prior to the Ediacaran, there had been

30 Sep 2017: Myself and eleven other University Pentathletes went to the Caribbean to develop our skills and fitness before the start of term. The 9-day trip saw us swim over 10 km, run over 30km, ride along co

26 Jan 2017: There are three types of love. In order of increasing strength, these are: ‘Eros’ (or erotic) love; ‘Philos’ (or friendship) love and ‘Agape’ (or unconditional love

30 Nov 2017: Ever since Mars has been known to humans, it has been a source of speculation. Is there life on Mars? Does Mars have oceans? Can humans live on Mars? Essentially, Mars is a huge area of curiosity an