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Matt Bawn

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  • Education:

    Aberystwyth (1997-2000) UEA (2007-2012)

  • Qualifications:

    10 GCSEs, 3.5 A Levels, BSc (Physics) PhD (Biochemical Spectroscopy)

  • Work History:

    Hotel, cable factory, phone warehouse, Installing high-field superconducting magnets, scientist …

  • Current Job:

    Bioinformatician

  • About Me:

    I started out as a physicist, worked in industry for a bit and then got captured by biology.

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    I began my undergraduate studies studying physics at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth. After this I then worked in industry for a number of years in the field of high-field superconducting magnet manufacture, before returning to university in 2007 to undertake postgraduate research.

    I was awarded my PhD in 2012 by the School of Chemistry of the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Biochemical magnetic resonance spectroscopy. I continued working in this area of spectroscopy during my first post-doctoral position at Brooklyn College CUNY (Rick Magliozzo) in New York as well as applying various computational chemistry techniques. After this I worked in the Centre for Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Faculty of Human Medicine at the University of San Martin de   Porres in Lima, Peru (Ricardo Fujita). I was responsible for the creation of a bioinformatics facility to enable the lab to work with large scale high-throughput genetic data. Currently I am a bioinformatician working between the Neil Hall Group at EI and the GHFS group at the IFR (Rob Kingsley) focusing on adaptive evolution in Salmonella.

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    • Visiting the Peruvian Institute of Health for Sequencing

      Helium cooled low-temp EPR for my PhD

      My first independent install at Carnegie Mellon brain institute in Pittsburgh 2001

  • My Typical Day:

    Check my Feedly feed, answer emails, discover something amazing.

  • What I'd do with the prize money:

    I’d like to try and increase inclusivity in science.

  • My Interview

    • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

      Demanding, Demiurgic, Dad

      What did you want to be after you left school?

      A pilot

      Were you ever in trouble at school?

      Not really.

      Who is your favourite singer or band?

      David Bowie

      What's your favourite food?

      BBQ Octopus

      If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

      To be able to speak and understand all languages, play all musical instruments and remember everything.

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