Preventing Coronary Heart Disease by Studying Potential Risk Groups

Want to be part of our Stories? Tell us your story Click here Name: Justin Lee Mifsud Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): 2 Location: Msida, Malta Graduation Date: Will graduate in 2024 (Ph.D.) Grants: University of Malta Twitter followers: 17   Hello! Who are you and what are you working on? I am an academic at the […]

Debunking Conspiracy Theories and Promoting Critical Thinking

Want to be part of our Stories? Tell us your story Click here Name: David Robert Grimes Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): Just myself, with a few dozen collaborators across the world on different projects. Location: Dublin, Ireland Graduation Date: November 2011 H index: 14 Grants: 6 Twitter followers: 19.5k   Hello! Who are you and what are you […]

Local Flow Field Inside a Coral Colony

Name: Md Monir Hossain Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): I am working with the Wonders of Water (WOW) Lab at the University of Houston. Currently, we have four members in our team. Location: Texas, Houston Graduation Date: Ph.D., June 2020 H index: 5 Grants: Virginia Sea Grant, Chevron Corporation Scholarship, Dr. Wadaran L. Kennedy Scholars award. Twitter […]

AI Research: Linguistics and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Name: Philipp Wicke Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): 1 Location: University College Dublin Graduation Date: 2021 H index: 3 Grants: RISE (DAAD) Scholarship, UCD PhD Scholarship. Twitter followers: Too many different creative Twitter bots at my disposal to give a concrete answer. Check @the_plot_bot, @metaphormagnet (credit to my PI). Hello! Who are you and what are you working on? My name is […]

Amphibians: Snakes and Toads’ Evolution and Spread

Want to be part of our Stories? Click here Name: Rick Shine Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): 6 Location: Macquarie University, Sydney Graduation Date: Ph.D. 1975 H index: 122. I’ve published well over a thousand peer-reviewed papers. In 2016 I won the two biggest science prizes in Australia – New South Wales Scientist of the Year, and […]

Understanding How Emotions Function to Enhance Wellbeing

Want to be part of our Stories? Click here Name: Jenny Groarke Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): I’m one of 14 members of the Centre for Improving Health-Related Quality of Life. Location: School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast Graduation Date: Ph.D. in 2017 H index: 6 Grants: I was awarded a PhD scholarship from the Irish Research Council […]

World-Learning and Self-Learning: How Genes Play a Role in Learning and Behavior

Want to be part of our Stories?  Click here Name: Björn Brembs Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): 3 scientists, one technician, varying number of undergraduate students. Location: Regensburg, Germany Graduation Date: Ph.D. March 2000 H index: 30 Grants: About 2.3M€ Twitter followers: 8000 Hello! Who are you and what are you working on? I’m a neurobiologist working on the […]

Applying Holographic Projections to Study the Brain

Want to be part of our Stories? Click here Name: Rania Mohamed Abdelazeem Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): 3 Location: Cairo University, Egypt Graduation Date: B.Sc. 2004, and Master degree 2016 Hello! Who are you and what are you working on? I am Rania Mohamed, I received a B.Sc. from the Department of Systems & Biomedical […]

Hearing Aid Research: Using Brain Signals to Measure Listening Effort

Want to be part of our Stories? Click here Name: Tirdad Seifi Ala Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): 20 Location: Glasgow, UK Graduation Date: Will graduate in 2021 (Ph.D.) H index: 7 Grants: I’m funded by HEAR-ECO765329 (European Union’s Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement) Success of lab’s members: Major grants Twitter followers: 21 (not really active on Twitter) Hello! […]