Previous Naked Scientists

Amy is a final-year PhD student in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She has joined the Naked Scientists as a British Science Association media fellow, an initiative to create a greater awareness of the workings of the media among practising scientists.

Amy began her academic life as an organic chemist, but changed departments in order to investigate industrially-relevant problems. She currently enjoys rheology, the study of how fluids deform as a result of external forces, and would be happy to continue in this field.

When not working, Amy doesn’t know what she does, because it hasn’t happened since she started writing her dissertation...

Emma has just finished a degree in biology, and is now doing an internship with the naked scientists.

Her interests include animal behaviour, climate change modelling, plant ecology and (outside science) cheerleading, cookery and horseriding. After her studies took her as far afield as Oxford, Wales, Portugal and Peru she is glad to be back in her hometown of Cambridge.

Katrina Stewart is a medical student at Cambridge University who was an internship student with The Naked Scientists. She enjoys biochemistry, burning cakes, and inspecting little creatures under her microscope. She is interested in finding ways to communicate the message of science to patients and the general public.

Emily Seward is a current student at Cambridge University specialising in Plant Science. She wasn't always so green-fingered and a childhood with ant farms in her room and tadpoles in her kitchen means that a range of scientific areas appeal.

She is particularly interested in Plant Pathology and epigenetics. She also enjoys proclaiming the virtues of plants and highlighting some of their interesting characteristics.

Will Hamilton is a student combining a degree in medicine from the University of Cambridge with a PhD from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He is interested in evolutionary biology and infectious diseases from the tropics, like malaria and parasitic worms. His PhD focuses on the evolution of the malaria parasite in South-East Asia.

After studying for a degree in Astonomy and Applied Mathematics, Louise made the move into science journalism. She is currently doing an internship at The Naked Scientists.

Sarah Urquhart is a doctor and currently works as a GP at a practice in Cambridge. Having toyed with the idea of a career in obstetrics and gynaecology, Sarah eventually decided that wallpapering the hall through the letterbox on a daily basis is just too challenging, so she's opted for General Practice instead. Sarah is our bad language surveillance officer and guardian of the swear box, duties bestowed upon her after she obliged us with a number of un-repeatable words on-air during the last series. She is also the official cake-baker in residence and graces each show with culinary marvels! This week it was banana cake, which was nice, but we really like the chocolate cake with brandy in...

Sabina is a research scientist and a science communicator. She is a radio and web producer for the Naked Scientists which involves writing the weekly column and producing Question of the Week and the Enhanced Podcast. She's also designing and carrying out a project evaluation of the whole Naked Science experience. Now there's a thing. Sabina also researches volcanic hazards (how they impact on humans and the environment) and pursues opportunities for creative science communication.

Anna loves science, loves radio and is an organisational freak, which makes being the Naked Scientists' producer a perfect job! In her previous life she studied zoology and spent some time as a research assistant in the Panamanian rainforest, which involved hugging trees and learning to drive a speedboat. But it wasn’t long before she swapped her wellies and insect repellent for a microphone and a ticket into the media jungle. She hasn’t been seen since… but you can hear her taking a call a mile off.

Derek likes communicating in crazy ways - the crazier the better. And he also likes communicating in crazy places! So, he's worked on radio soap operas in Tanzania, busked public service announcements in Bangladesh, and of course taken part in numerous science experiments in kitchens across the East of England. While Dave is the brains of the kitchen science feature, Derek holds the mic and asks stupid questions - which is one of his strengths. In his spare time, he plays musical instruments (the crazier the better - he's a wizard on the Jew's Harp) and volunteers for community radio.

Ali isn't a Scientist. She doesn't actually know much about science at all, but managed to conceal this fact when hooking up a volunteer position with the Naked Scientists.

Ali did an engineering degree in Australia before realising that what she liked more than engineering stuff was talking about engineering stuff. Hence, she spent a couple of months in Winter 06/07 helping out and learning the ropes. Back in her baked brown homeland, Ali worked in the wind energy industry.

Adel Fattah is a doctor and scientist. He completed his PhD in developmental biology at London University before coming to Cambridge to do medicine. He is now training as a plastic surgeon in Essex, so if you should fall ill in that neck of the woods, give the ambulance driver explicit instructions not to take you to any hospital in which he is operating !! No he's really good actually, we're just joking, honest ! Look at his photo - he practises on himself. Adel's other major forte, apart from always buying the beers when we go out, is sounding like Barry White, which could earn him more than his medical job !