Month: August 2017

Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews jmf32@st-andrews.ac.uk 2017 Cruciblist Jonathan is a lecturer in mathematics at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include: fractal geometry, geometric measure theory, ergodic theory, Fourier analysis, probability theory, and connections with other areas of mathematics. Before moving to St Andrews in

Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Science University of Strathclyde katherine.duncan@strath.ac.uk 2017 Cruciblist   Katherine is a Chancellor’s Research Fellow and Lecturer in Drug Discovery. She discovers novel antibiotics and anticancer compounds from the oceans. She has over 12 years’ experience in marine natural products research, spanning 3 countries. Katherine’s

University of Glasgow david.childs@glasgow.ac.uk 2017 Cruciblist   David T.D. Childs (M’15) received the B.Sc. degree in Physics, the. M.Sc. degree in Semiconductor Science and Technology from Imperial College, London in 1996 and 1997 respectively. He continued at Imperial where he received his PhD in Properties and applications of 1.3um InAs/GaAs

Centre for Scandinavian Studies University of Aberdeen hannah.burrows@abdn.ac.uk 2017 Cruciblist Hannah’s main research interests are in the medieval North, particularly Old Norse-Icelandic literature, language, culture, and society. At the moment, Hannah is particularly interested in interactions between law, poetry, and humour, and in Old Norse perceptions of the natural world.

Communication Media and Culture University of Stirling chiara.bernardi@stir.ac.uk 2017 Cruciblist Chiara is a lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Stirling. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary methodologies from the University of Warwick and has spent one year at the EPFL in Switzerland as part of her postdoctoral experience.

College of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Edinburgh miranda.anderson@ed.ac.uk 2017 Cruciblist   Miranda Anderson is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and the initiator of the AHRC-funded project, ‘A History of Distributed Cognition’ (HDC). Recently claims have been made in philosophy of mind and cognitive science that

Institute of Biomedical and Environmental Health Research (IBEHR) University of the West of Scotland mhairi.alexander@uws.ac.uk 2017 Cruciblist   Dr Mhairi Alexander is a Marine Ecologist and has been in her current role as a Lecturer in Zoology at the University of the West of Scotland since September 2015. She completed

Postdoctoral Researcher University of Highlands & Islands issie.macphail@uhi.ac.uk 2017 Cruciblist   Issie is a Postdoctoral Researcher at The UHI Division of Health Research, Rural Health & Wellbeing. She has just completed 3 years work on the AHRC funded Representing Communities project, exploring how one might use creative descriptions and representations