Profile – Curiosity Carnival

The Historian

Current Job:

Marie Curie Fellow at Department of Chemistry
Employer:

Oxford University

About Me

Researcher on move
Read more

I am a Marie Curie fellow in Professor Tom Brown’s group at Oxford University. I have worked in different countries including USA, Germany, India, Denmark and UK. I really enjoyed all of my working places and learned a lot by working with people from all around the World.
My work

My work is to design and make new nucleotides/oligonucleotides for treating genetic disorders such as Duchene Muscular Dystrophy.
My Typical Day

Setting up chemical reactions and analysing the results

My Interview
- How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
  
  Nucleic Acid Chemist
  
  What's the best thing you've done as a researcher?
  
  helping junior researchers
  
  What did you want to be after you left school?
  
  A detective
  
  If you weren't a researcher, what would you be?
  
  Businessman
  
  What is the most fun thing you've done?
  
  taking rides with my 3 year old son at Lego Land

You can find all of your live chat bookings here. You can also visit the staffroom, if you need help, or just fancy a chat with the super awesome moderator team.