Researching Infectious Diseases: From HIV to COVID-19
Name: Liam Townsend Number of lab members or colleagues (excluding PI): There are five in our lab group, with two PIs. Location: Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Saint James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland Graduation Date: Medicine 2013, Ph.D. 2021 H index: 4, with 205 citations Grants: Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme fellowship and European Federation of Immunological Societies […]
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 […]