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  • Viswanath Vittaladevaram

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  • Valeria Nico

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    I live in Limerick city with my husband and I work as a lecturer in the School of Engineering in the University of Limerick.

    I love playing sport and go for drives on the west coast of Ireland!

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  • Valentine Turpin

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    I’m a French neuroscientist 🇫🇷🧠 living in Cork, Ireland for 2 years (already?) with my partner who’s also a neuroscientist, French and to confirm the cliché a great cook. I’m a sweet tooth 🧁, I do a lot of yoga 🧘🏻‍♀️, I read English and French books 📖, and I dance to music from the 80s 🎵

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  • Umesh Lowe

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    I’m currently living in Dublin, doing my PhD studies at University College Dublin. I’m a sports enthusiast and love playing football, cricket, baseball, and badminton.

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  • Swati Mukherjee

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    I’m a PhD researcher studying how to create tiny materials that are invisible to the naked eye but can change the way surfaces behave. By using special techniques, I grow these materials one layer at a time to develop cool structures that can send information using laser light. This work is at the cutting edge of science, combining light and electronics to revolutionize communication technology!

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  • Somali Dhal

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    I am an international PhD student at UCC. I moved to Cork in May 2024. I love exploring new places and trying out new food/ dishes. I love fish and chips!

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  • Siva Periasamy

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  • Sithara Sreenilayam

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  • Shane O'Reilly

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    I live in Kildare and am a lecturer and research scientist at Technological University Dublin

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  • Saurabh Kharwar

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  • Sanaz Rasti

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  • Sam Green

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    I am living in Sydney, Australia with my Australian partner but I’m originally from Waterford. I’m currently working as a software engineer in a climate change research centre but I used to be an Astrophysicist doing research in Dublin.

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  • Rosie Giglia

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    I am from the United States, but have been living in Dublin for 8 years. Outside of the lab, I like to swim in the sea, play water polo, make clothes, and cook!

     

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  • Rosemary Josekutty Thomas

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    I’m a real-world dreamer.

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  • Roisin Jones

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    I’m an Irish chemistry researcher, currently working for a pharmaceutical company called Thermo Fisher Scientific.

    Status: Splitting my time between working from home and working in the lab, and making increasingly elaborate meal plans!

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  • Roger Preston

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  • Rinki Singh

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  • Rebecca Nkiruka Ndukwe

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  • Pawel Rulikowski

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    I live with my family in Dublin. I enjoy “finding out” fascinating facts of life and science. I love nature walks, meeting with friends and reading. My passion is telling others about wonders of our world.

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  • Norma Bargary

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    I am from Tipperary but live in Limerick with my husband and two daughters. I love sports, especially hurling, but can’t sing a note.

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  • Niamh Disney

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    I’m a chemistry researcher from 9 – 5 but I love getting home to cook new dishes, watch my favourite minimal-living youtubers, and go for a run in the evening to reset and clear my mind of the day’s events. At the weekends I go hiking and do book clubs with my friends and visit my family as often as possible.

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  • Monica Cazzaniga

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    Hi! I’m from Italy and I’m doing my PhD in microbiology in Ireland. I love nature, running and singing in the university gospel choir. My favourite food is of course pizza!

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  • Mike Hinchey

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    I’m a software engineer, who has worked in the space industry (for NASA) and in universities in Ireland, USA, Australia and Sweden. Everyone assumes I love science fiction, which I don’t – except Red Dwarf, but that’s more comedy than sci-fi. One of my former students co-wrote the highest earning song of all time. Can you figure out what it is?

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  • Mike Hayes

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    I work in Tyndall UCC, an electronics research centre. My team develops tiny wireless power devices that use light, heat or vibration that enable us to replace batteries in wireless sensors. I am a big sports fan of golf, pitch and putt and tennis (which I play badly) and hurling (which I admire)! I’m also a trekkie.

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  • Michael Nolan

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    I am lucky to be a scientist and do the work that excites me – I find and show how to make new materials for future electronic devices like smartphones. I am also lucky to be able to help others in their journey to being scientists. And I get paid for it!

    Status: We are keeping the science going during this time

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    What are jobs you can do experiments with and lab work for

  • Maja Popovic

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    I love maths, languages and music. I hate getting up early.

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  • Kynan Delaney

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    I’m a biologist who has spent the last few years studying how insects change with age in the wild and in captivity. I am very interested in ecology and behaviour, and I enjoy making gadgets and coding, so I have made my own tools to measure how beetles’ behaviours and physical abilities change with age, and to track individuals over weeks or months in their natural habitat.

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  • Keerthi M. Nair

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    Originally from India, I moved to Ireland in 2019. I’m a researcher by day, but also a lover for sweets, cakes and pasteries. I love baking (or as I like to call it, make my kitchen my lab, sometimes), going for walks, hikes and also love to dance. Ohh a fun fact about me: I’ve hitchhikers thumb (look it up if you haven’t heard it before- this is a small part of being a scientist- digging up stuffs out of curiosity) !!

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  • Kamran Mir

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    With over 10 years of experience in EdTech research and training, I am passionate about enhancing the quality and accessibility of online education. I have received multiple international and national awards and fellowships for my innovative and best practices in open and distance learning. I have also published more than 20 research papers in various journals and conferences. My current project focuses on mapping learning analytics with learning designs to improve student outcomes and retention.

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  • Jose Cortes

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    Hi all! I’m currently a researcher in electronic design for medical applications. I love traveling and I’m a big fan of space travel and science fiction.

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  • Joan ALABOSON

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    I live in Maynooth and get to work as a health researcher every day. Some days I teach at the university and work at a charity that helps parents make the right health choices for their children. For fun, I love to ride my bike and bake cakes from scratch.

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  • Jill O'Sullivan

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    I’m a PhD student in Cork based in UCC. In my spare time I love to bake, listen to music and meet up with friends.

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  • Inés Có Rives

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    I am a Spanish PhD student researcher living in Cork. I love traveling 🌍, dancing ballet 🩰 and I am a bit of a bookworm (I absolutely adore Harry Potter) 📖.

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  • Ifeolutembi Fashina

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  • Harish Kambampati

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    I’m Dr. Harish Kambampati, a Neuroscientist and Biomedical Engineer with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Specializing in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs).

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    Are there common misconceptions about your area of research that you wish more people understood?

  • Erika Duriakova

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    I am a mum, an animal lover and a computer scientist.

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  • Elisabeth O'Flaherty

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    I live in Cork City where I work as a researcher 👩🏻‍🔬 In my spare time I love baking, yoga and sea swims 🌊🧘‍♀️

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  • Eleanor Windle

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  • Dmitrii Briantcev

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  • Dimitra Psychogiou

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  • Diarmuid Kenny

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    In my day job I look at different proteins and how they are affected when you take a drug using a machine called a mass spectrometer. When not looking at proteins, I do a from of martials arts called Tang Soo Do, I make model airplanes and I am a avid boardgamer

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  • Claire Boles

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    I am based in Dublin but originally I’m from Co.Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. While becoming a Chemical and Bioprocess Engineer I played International rugby with Ireland and went to the Paris 2024 Olympic games. I really enjoy baking and going home to the farm.

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  • Badal Mondal

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    I am a materials science researcher at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland. I love learning cool facts about life and science. I enjoy cooking, walking in nature, meeting friends, and reading books.

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  • Ayesha Sharif

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    I am a researcher based in University of Galway. I am a physicist and material scientist. I do research on things, how they can be improved, find solution to problems and perform experiments to solve things.

    I look forward to meeting you all through this chat platform. 🙂

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    Was being a scientist the first job you wanted to do?

  • asma slaimi

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  • Aqeel Kazmi

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  • Aoibhinn Downes

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    I am a PhD student in UCD 👩‍🔬. Outside of that I play social tag rugby and am currently training for a half marathon 🏃‍♀️. I love watching greys anatomy and the vampire diaries.

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  • Ali Shayegh

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  • Alessandra Mileo

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    I am Italian. I am a proud mum. Ah, and I would have probably been a rock singer if I didn’t become a scientist 🙂

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    Have you ever tried work on a cure for cancer.

  • Abhinav Gautam

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