Profile

I am originally from Liverpool and I moved to Cumbria a few months ago. I also support Liverpool Football Club. I love to listen to music whenever I feel stressed and my favourite artist has to be Taylor Swift who I was lucky enough to meet (a long story- she is really nice!). I have played the guitar for around 10 years now, and my dream holiday destination is New Zealand!

My team is made up of chemists, physicists and engineers, and we work together to solve problems with unknown material coming from various points of the site. The samples that come into the lab are varied in activity level (how dangerous they are!), and it’s important that the methods used by analysts are safe. Examples of the work my team does includes forecasting  demand (how many samples we will have, and when they will come in), decisions (what the best route is to deal with the samples!) and being the general go-to for technical solutions.

I wake up at 6 am usually – it is a struggle! I aim to get to work for around 7:30, where I start by checking my e-mails for updates on how the lab is doing. We work to a schedule of what goes in and out of the lab- so it’s important that try to keep to it! I have lots of meetings, where we discuss any issues we may be having and work together to solve them. We work together because everyone has different strengths. I usually grab lunch with some of my friends and then leave work at around 3:40.