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Plamena Panayotova

Plamena Panayotova

Our Society, Event Manager

I am a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. I study the popularisation of science and science literacy in the British context. It is heartening that 'Pint of Science' is preserving the spirit of a centuries-long tradition of science popularisation and am delig…

Eva Notari

Eva Notari

Planet Earth, Event Manager

I’m a PhD student in Computational Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, working on protein design. It's my second year organising Pint of Science and I'm looking forward to a series of exciting talks!

Erin Watson

Erin Watson

City Coordinator

Hello! I’m Erin and I’m a PhD Student at the University of Edinburgh investigation how immune cells contribute to regeneration of the salivary gland after radiotherapy. Having previously volunteered with Pint of Science as an event manager and communications and marketing team member, I'm excited to…

Kellie Horan

Kellie Horan

Planet Earth, Event Manager

I am a 3rd year PhD student at the Institute for Regeneration and Repair. My research aims to understand how mitochondrial changes contribute to selective neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis.

Rashi Krishna

Rashi Krishna

Tech Me Out, Event Manager

I'm a second year PhD student at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on identifying drug response biomarkers for uterine leiomyosarcoma.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

Atoms to Galaxies, Event Manager

I am a first year PhD student at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh. I work on finding new drug targets using chemistry, biology and mass spectrometry.

Kadi Vaher

Kadi Vaher

Beautiful Minds and Our Body, Event Manager

I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences in the University of Edinburgh. My research aims to understand to what extent brain development after preterm birth is affected by changes in other bodily systems, particularly infants' gut microbiome and systemic inflamma…

Rebecca Robertson

Rebecca Robertson

Our Body, Event Manager

In my PhD research project I am investigating how the communication between cells in the brain changes in Small Vessel disease. I am in my second year and am based at the University of Edinburgh.

Annie Brough

Annie Brough

Beautiful Minds and Our Body, Event Manager

I am a Neuroscience Masters student in the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, working to discover the role of a cell adhesion molecule in axon development and synaptic morphology.

Nika Balkic

Nika Balkic

Beautiful Minds, Event Manager

I am a second year PhD student at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh. My project is focused on identifying behaviours or biomarkers that can serve as indicators of epilepsy in a genetic mouse model of childhood-onset epilepsy.

Lucia Puchades Gimeno

Lucia Puchades Gimeno

Our Body, Event Manager

I am a first year PhD student at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh. My project is related to a rare and aggressive form of endometrial stromal sarcoma caused by a chromosomal translocation.

Áine Heffernan

Áine Heffernan

Our Body, Event Manager

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences in the University of Edinburgh. My work aims to use human stem cell models to investigate neurodegenerative conditions.

Emilia Agasi

Emilia Agasi

Atoms to Galaxies, Event Manager

I am a first year PhD student in Biomedical AI at the School of Informatics. My research centres around using multimodal patient data to understand the ovarian cancer landscape.

Greta Gandolfi

Greta Gandolfi

Planet Earth and Our Society, Communications and Marketing

I just graduated with a PhD in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. I’m interested in language use in interaction, social cognition, and how information is shared across groups and generations of speakers.

Shuting Chen

Shuting Chen

Our Society, Event Manager

I am a third year PhD student in Psychology at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Science from UoE. I am interested in joint actions, investigating whether people perform tasks in different ways when they were alone versus when they were performing the task with an experimental partne…

Tayemar Fowler-Davis

Tayemar Fowler-Davis

Planet Earth, Event Manager

I am finishing my PhD in Nuclear Physics. My research looks at measuring the masses of highly exotic and short lived isotopes. To learn more about the fundamentals of atoms and their purpose within astrophysical processes.