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All rise for yeast cell biologist Dr Sam Dundon (@serdundon), who joins us at Real Scientists this week! Sam is a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University, studying how yeast cells divide, in order to understand more...

Real Scientists is on the high seas this week with Dr Natalie Umling (@natumling), a postdoctoral fellow in paleoceanography at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. We spoke to Natalie about...

Real Scientists is running (with proper knee support) around Denmark this week with Dr. Søren Skou (@STSkou), an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and head of an interdisciplinary research group at...

This week we’re happy to welcome Nicole Beisiegel (@NicoleBeisiegel) as the curator of Real Scientists. Nicole is a research fellow in applied mathematics and computational geoscience looking into flood simulations. Here’s a little bit...

This week we have Wesley Wilson (@Weswilson) curating Real Scientists! Wesley is a Canadian cancer researcher at the University of Western Australia. Wesley also hosts the Mostly Science podcast and workson machine learning algorithms to better...

We warmly welcome our next curator, Dr. Samantha Montano (@samlmontano)! Dr Montano has a BS in Psychology from Loyola University New Orleans and a MS and PhD in Emergency Management from North Dakota State...

This week we have Jens Gaitzsch (@jgaitzsch) , Senior Scientist at Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden. Jens is a polymer chemist, and is actively working on making biodegradable plastics! We asked Jens what he...

Real Scientists is at the University of Virginia with Matthew Diasio (@MatSciMatt), a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering who will be defending later this summer. Go, Matthew! His research focuses on the...

This week we are taking a sneak peek into the visionary world of Dr. Chloe Thomas (@cnthomas1994). Chloe is a Post Doc based within the Neuroscience and Ophthalmology group and Institute of Clinical Sciences at...

This week we’re welcoming Dr Jillian M Scudder (@Jillian_Scudder) an Assistant Professor at Oberlin College in Ohio. Jillian’s PhD focused on the physics of galaxy collisions in the local universe (through both optical and radio observations),...