Opening a new window onto the chiral building blocks of life

A simpler and cheaper way to create UCNPs with the strong red emission needed for trans-tissue bioscience applications

I am now a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Department of Pure and Applied chemistry. I am in the BioNanotechnology and Analytical division, based in the Technology Innovation Centre.

Interlacing hidden chiral fingerprints and chiral image-features into advanced security inks.

My experience participating in the UoG 2020 Science Slam youtube livestream

All about the breakthrough CPL spectrometer that I built.

I am delighted to say that I have been awarded a BBSRC Discovery Fellowship to conduct my own research into nanoparticle biosensors for 3 years, commencing July 2020. Here’s a brief overview of how I got to this stage.

I am delighted to have won the North East England heat of the ‘Three Minute Wonder’ science communication competition run by the Institute of Physics.

I’m very pleased to say that I was interviewed about my research into science podcasts as part of a ‘Career Feature’ article by Roberta Kwok for Nature. The article features insights from several excellent science communicators, so I am humbled to be in such esteemed company!

This came hot off the back of my study on science podcasting being published Royal Society Open Science the week prior. Link/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180932 I am really pleased to get this work published as it is my first piece of solo work and the peer-review was very thorough. I hope it’s of interest and helpful to the science communication community.