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Senior Lecturer University of Stirling christian.schroeder@stir.ac.uk 2015 Cruciblist Dr Christian Schroeder is a Lecturer in Environmental Science & Planetary Exploration at the University of Stirling, and was part of our cohort of Cruciblists in 2015. Christian completed his PhD in 2007 at  Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany. Christian’s Research Interests Christian’s overarching interest lies with the

Chancellor’s Fellow Linguistics and English Language University of Edinburgh. ccummins@staffmail.ed.ac.uk 2015 Cruciblist Before coming to Edinburgh, Chris worked with J. P. de Ruiter and colleagues in Bielefeld as part of the SFB 673, Alignment in Communication. Prior to that, he was a PhD student at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics

Lecturer in Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling sabine.matallanasurget@stir.ac.uk 2015 Crucibilist   Prior to Stirling, Sabine was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes. Université Paris, and a Research fellow at the Département de Protéomique et Microbiologie Environementale. Université de Mons, Belgium. Sabine undertook her PhD at

Dr Duncan Sproul is a programme leader and CRUK Career Development Fellow at the MRC Human Genetics Unit and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine. Duncan was in the 2015 cohort of Crucibilists. Duncan studied Genetics at the University of Edinburgh before being awarded an MRC pre-doctoral fellowship to

Dr Louise Horsfall is a Lecturer in Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, and was part of the 2015 cohort of Crucibilists. Louise is interested in multidisciplinary challenges involving Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology. She is the recipient of the University of Edinburgh’s 2015 Chancellor’s Rising Star Award, the elected co-chair of

Dr Helen Dooley is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, and was part of the 2015 cohort of Cruciblists. For the past 10 years or so, Helen’s research has focused upon trying to understand how the adaptive immune system (AIS) and its component molecules evolved. To do this, she uses a

Dr Heather Morgan is a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, and was part of the 2015 cohort of Cruciblists. Heather’s research interests lie in the broad conceptual areas of surveillance/monitoring, compliance/deviance and gender, as well as their complex theoretical intersections and pragmatic interactions with technologies, broadly conceived. She has researched

Dr Dimitrios Gerogiorgis is a lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the Institute of Materials and Processes (IMP) of the University of Edinburgh. Dimitrios was part of our 2015 cohort of Cruciblists. He holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering with highest honors from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1999); obtained a