Post-doc at Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland. Former post-doc at German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Main topic: pharmacology, neuroscience. Working with transgenic mice to understand the mechanisms of depression and neurodegenerative disorders. Other hobbies: traveling in an independent way, skiing, photography.

I left my job in industry to return to the University of Aberdeen in 2010 to start a PhD investigating a novel signalling system present in mechanosensitive terminals (specialised parts of the body that can sense when they are stretched, such as those within muscle).