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StepWideStepWide showcases the profiles of early career cis and trans women researchers from the University of Cambridge, UK.



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Abigail Mountford

Abigail Mountford

am2833@cam.ac.uk

Position

Research Associate

Affiliation

Chemistry and St Edmunds College

Keywords

High-throughput Experimentation, Machine Learning

My research involves miniaturising and automating chemistry in order to carry out hundreds of reactions in a day, rather than weeks or months for larger scale reactions.

Emily Kruger

Emily Kruger

esk28@cam.ac.uk

Position

Research Associate

Affiliation

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Keywords

Ventilation, Covid-19, Transport, Fluid Dynamics, Lab Experiments

I am a mathematician interested in understanding buoyancy driven flows, e.g. flows produced by a hot/cold source of fluid or air. At the moment I am particularly interested in how the ventilation of buildings, and transport can play a role in the possible spread of Covid-19.

Hankui Peng

Hankui Peng

hp467@cam.ac.uk @HankuiPeng

Position

Aviva Research Fellow

Affiliation

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Keywords

Clustering, Active Learning, Image Analysis

My research interests mainly lie in the field of unsupervised learning. Generally speaking, it is about learning from and modelling on data that do not have any labelling information. Within the field, I am particularly interested in clustering and active learning.

Kadi Saar

Kadi Saar

kls78@cam.ac.uk @KadiLiisSaar

Position

Research Fellow and Schmidt Science Fellow

Affiliation

Chemistry, Physics and St John's College

Keywords

Biophysical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Computational Biology, Molecular Machine Learning

I am a Meres Research Fellow at St John’s College and a Schmidt Science Fellow working between the Centre for Misfolding Diseases at the Department of Chemistry and the Maxwell Centre at the Department of Physics.

Lefan Wang

Lefan Wang

lw683@cam.ac.uk

Position

Research Associate

Affiliation

Engineering

Keywords

Wearable Sensing Technology, Dibatic Foot Ulcers, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), Machine Learning, Healthcare System

I am an Engineer, currently working as a Research Associate in the Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Inspired by my early experiences in resource-limited settings, I am particularly interested in how to improve healthcare services with mobile, wearable sensing technologies and artificial intelligence.

Molly Haugen

Molly Haugen

mjh268@cam.ac.uk

Position

Research Associate

Affiliation

Engineering

Keywords

Energy Systems, Emissions, Sensors, Future of Fuels, Field Work

My area of expertise revolves around on-road emissions. Previous work at the University of Denver involved collecting the largest on-road inventory of emission data for heavy-goods vehicles.

Nayra Martin-Key

Nayra Martin-Key

nam57@cam.ac.uk

Position

Research Associate

Affiliation

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Keywords

Behaviour Change, Digital Technologies, Medical Devices, Patient and Public Involvement, Psychiatry

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research, led by principal investigator Professor Sabine Bahn.

Nicole Wheeler

Nicole Wheeler

n.wheeler@bham.ac.uk

Position

Data Scientist, Bioinformatician

Affiliation

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Keywords

Machine Learning, Bacterial Evolution, Antimicrobial Resistance, Genomics

I work as a data scientist, taking large amounts of data from the real world, and using it to discover rules about how the world works.

Sarah Morgan

Sarah Morgan

sem91@cam.ac.uk @Sarah_Morgan_UK

Position

Senior Research Associate

Affiliation

Computer Science and Technology

Keywords

Network Science, Machine Learning, MRI, Schizophrenia, Mental Health

My research applies machine learning, network science and Natural Language Processing to better understand and predict mental health conditions.

Soujanya Mantravadi

Soujanya Mantravadi

sm2608@cam.ac.uk

Position

Research Associate

Affiliation

Institute for Manufacturing

Keywords

Supply chains, Smart factories, Manufacturing, Applied computer science, Food security

I am a mechanical engineer with a PhD in industrial engineering and information systems.

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StepWideStepWide showcases the profiles of early career cis and trans women researchers from the University of Cambridge, UK.



You can perform a query by List View, Categories and Keywords. You can click in any of the research categories and subcategories below to retrieve
a subset of researchers with expertise on the field. The List View will show you a list of the researchers in the website and the researcher categories
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Click on any of the researchers to see a full description of their profiles.

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About

This website

This website showcases the profiles of early career cis and trans women researchers from the University of Cambridge, UK, and affiliated institutions. It originated as part of StepWide, a leadership programme that aims to support the next generation of female researchers.

We hope that by making the expertise and stories of early career women researchers more visible (and searchable!), will highlight how much they contribute to the research that is done in the University and affiliated institutions.

Who is it for

This website is designed for a wide audience, be it other researchers looking for particular expertise for a collaboration; the media looking for experts; those that are simply curious about what type of research is done in Cambridge, or those trying to get a clearer idea of what a ‘typical’ woman researcher in this years old institution does (there is no ‘typical’!).

The StepWide programme

StepWide was designed by 3 postdocs at Cambridge (see below for more on Marta, Laura and Cemre). It aims to support female postdoctoral researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, from any discipline, who feel that taking a step into leadership is not for them. The programme is designed to suit both early and more senior postdocs, providing them with the skills to challenge the current ideas of what a leader is, learn how to raise their public profiles, as well as a close and supportive network of peer-to-peer female postdocs.

StepWide ran for the first time in 2019/2021, and we are currently running a new series of workshops in 2022/2023. We will post updates here when applications open for its next run.

Founders

Laura, Marta and Cemre (left to right on the photo) met at The Postdocs of Cambridge (PdOC) Society, at the University of Cambridge, UK. When the Researcher Development (RD) Pitch Competition was announced in late 2018, they felt this provided the ideal opportunity to work together to develop a leadership programme for women postdocs. They saw a gap in the current leadership RD provision, with a lack of opportunities that challenge current leadership views. Their proposal was successful and obtained funding for a one year pilot, giving rise to the StepWide programme.

Laura Fachal is a Senior Staff Scientist at Wellcome Sanger Institute. She earned her BS in Veterinary, MSc in Biotechnology and PhD from University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She completed her postdoc at the Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge. She is also a Research Associate at Lucy Cavendish College.

Marta Costa is a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Zoology. She did her undergrad in Biology in Lisbon, Portugal, followed by an MSc in Neuroscience at UCL in London. She then moved to Cambridge for her PhD, followed by a postdoc. She is also a Research Associate at Lucy Cavendish College.

Cemre Ustunkaya was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. She earned her BSc in Biological Science, followed by an MSc in Archaeometry at Middle East Technical University, Turkey. She later moved to Australia for her PhD in Archaeology at The University of Queensland. She is also a postdoc affiliate at Newnham College.

Funding

Thanks and funding

StepWide was funded by the Researcher Development Pitch Competition which included support from the Researcher Development Programme, The Postdocs of Cambridge (PdOC) Society, the Postdoc Academy, the Postdoc Chairs’ Network and the Careers Service at the University of Cambridge. We are very thankful for their support. We would also like to thank Alba Gómez for her expert support with the first version of the website, and to Arian Jamasb for redesigning and implementing the newest version of this website. Finally, we thank Natacha Wilson and Rebecca Nestor for the advice and support they provided for the development of the workshops.

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