NLCS science soc.

Professor Dame Carol Black

(Medicine) From Clinical Scientist to Health and Welfare Policy: Always Following the Evidence

Professor Dame Black will be talking about her own journey from clinical and basic medical research into Scleroderma and related connective tissue diseases, to research for independent inquiries for government. These inquiries around work, health and the benefit system have always required careful analysis of complex data – she will be talking about the importance of truth and transparency in medicine also.

Miss Affelia Wibisono

(Astronomy) Water beyond the Earth

​Affelia Wibisono is an astronomy education assistant at the Royal Observatory Greenwich and will be talking to us about all things space! This special lecture is open to anyone from year 7 to 13 and will take place in the Buss. 

Dr Mamta Nagaraja

​(Engineering)- NASA

Dr Nagaraja currently works at NASA, training astronauts for the ISS (International Space Station), working as a Flight Controller in the Mission Control Centre, operating the LADEE science mission to the moon, and managing the Agency-wide Women@NASA program. She will talk to us about her life at NASA, followed by a Q&A session.

Dr Mark Crimmin

(Natural Sciences) TBC

Dr Mark Crimmin is a Senior Lecturer from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial who did a research fellowship at UC Berkeley and then became a University Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He will be giving a talk on the development of organometallic catalysts for the activation of small molecules.

Professor Oscar Ces

(Chemical Biology) TBC

Professor Ces is a Chemical Biology Professor at Imperial College London will be giving a talk on condensed matter, chemical biology, microfluidics, artificial cells, single cell analysis and lipid membrane mechanics.

Professor Alistair Hart

(Medicine) On being the director of research and development at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

Professor Hart is the Director of Research and Development, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. He has done +3000 operations including +1000 primary or revision hip and knee replacements making him an expert in his field. Prof. Hart will be giving a talk on optimizing function and survival of hip and knee replacements for patients with arthritis.

Dr Antonia Hamilton

(Neuroscience) Why do we imitate? What happens in your brain when you do?

Dr Hamilton is a Reader in Social Neuroscience and leader of the Social Neuroscience group at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL). She completed a PhD on the impact of neuronal noise for the optimal control of human arm movements (UCL), and postdoctoral work on imitation in autism and brain systems for action understanding.

Professor Vincent Walsh

(Neuroscience) The Science of Sleep

Professor Walsh is listed on BBC One's Britain's Brightest and is a Professor of Human Brain Research and Royal Society Industry Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. He will be giving a talk addressing questions such as: How do we see? How do we remember? How do we learn? And how do we count?

Professor Lord Robert Winston

(Science) Dear Tomorrow's Scientists

Professor Lord Robert Winston is the Professor of Science Society at Imperial College and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies. Famous for developing gynaecological surgical techniques that improved fertility treatments and for pioneering new treatments to improve in-vitro fertilisation.

Dr Corinna Wehmeyer

(Medicine) Cell Signalling Mechanisms Underlying the Onset of Arthritis

Dr Wehmeyer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Birmingham and her main reseach interests focus on molecular mechanisms of bone remodelling during inflammatory diseases. Within this field, her current research project investigate the function of osteocytes, embedded in the mineralized bone matrix, and their commmunication with osteoclasts, osteoblasts and immune cells influencing bone homeostasis in rheumatoid arthritis.

Dr Sylvia McLain

(Biochemistry) The Physics Behind Drug Interactions with the Human Brain

Dr McLain leads the McLain Research group in University of Oxford. Her research group is interested in understanding the interactions between biological molecules at the atomic level in physiologically relevant environments. We use a combination of neutron scattering, NMR and computer simulation to probe the interplay between these molecules on the atomic and molecular level.

Dr Jim Baggott

(Physics) What is Mass?

Dr Baggott is an award-winning science writer who has written books including "Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the God Particle" and "The Quantum Story". He trained as a scientist, completing a doctorate in chemical physics at the University of Oxford before embarking on post-doctoral research study at Stanford University. For more info, go to http://www.jimbaggott.com/.