Profile
Matt Bawn
My CV
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Education:
Aberystwyth (1997-2000) UEA (2007-2012)
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Qualifications:
10 GCSEs, 3.5 A Levels, BSc (Physics) PhD (Biochemical Spectroscopy)
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Work History:
Hotel, cable factory, phone warehouse, Installing high-field superconducting magnets, scientist …
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Current Job:
Bioinformatician
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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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My Typical Day:
Check my Feedly feed, answer emails, discover something amazing.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
I’d like to try and increase inclusivity in science.
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My Interview
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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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