1. What's your favourite thing to do in your job?
I love being on a water treatment works in a hi-vis jacket, a hard hat and steel capped boots taking samples of water
2. How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Relaxed, Creative, Quirky
3. What's the best thing you've ever done in your career?
I got to travel to Mexico in the first year of my PhD to help work out how to make their water less likely to be changed by climate change. I've never been so far, plus I felt like I was trying my best to help people using my research
4. What or who inspired you to follow your career?
I didn't mean to start this career. I just thought biology was interesting then I thought microorganisms were interesting. I have just followed what I enjoyed, really
5. What was your favourite subject at school?
I loved music but was terrible at it! I liked history and geography and science, chemistry best
6. What did you want to be after you left school?
I didn't know at all. I wanted to be a teacher and an author and a doctor,
7. Were you ever in trouble at school?
No I was good! At university though I would doodle on my notebook all the time when I should have been paying attention
8. If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
I think it would be really cool to be a person who tests video games and decides whether they're good or not. Is that a job?
9. Who is your favourite singer or band?
I like angry shouty music. System of a Down.
10. What's your favourite food?
Chinese! Lemon chicken with egg fried rice
11. What is the most fun thing you've done?
I went scuba diving on the coral reefs in Borneo. It was amazing. I just wish I had worn contact lenses in the scuba mask because I can't see very far without my glasses!
12. If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
I would wish for my eyesight to be 100% perfect, for my family to have a new house and to stop climate change from happening
