Current Job: Lead Java Developer Scientific Discipline/Field: Information Technology Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): B, T What does your job involve? As a Lead Developer, I mentor and advise a team of Java software developers at a company in Birmingham, where we work on the websites for a major car manufacturer. I also regularly... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Environmental Educator & Grad Student Scientific Discipline/Field: I think conservation biology covers it. I've floated around in a lot of wildlife jobs. My focus in school is ecological restoration and plant ecology, and my thesis is on prescribed fire. Country: USA Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): L, Q Website: overlookednature.com What does your job involve?... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University Scientific Discipline/Field: Biological Anthropology - Behavioral ecology and genomics of non-human primates Country: USA Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G, Q Website: http://www.evopropinquitous.net http://evopropinquitous.tumblr.com http://www.twitter.com/fuzzyatelin What does your job involve? My research explores mechanistic and adaptive aspects of developmental variation using techniques from behavioral ecology, physiology, morphometrics, and genomics.... Continue Reading →
Current Job: PhD Student/Teaching Assistant, University of Memphis Scientific Discipline/Field: Botany – Plant Genetics Country: USA Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G Website: www.ramseyresearch.net What does your job involve? My lab studies carrot mitochondrial genetics and transmission. My PhD research is determining the fitness effects of plants being heteroplasmic (i.e. having more than one mitochondrial genome). What that really... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Community Relations Officer Scientific Discipline/Field: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math Country: USA Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): B What does your job involve? My job is split between running my lab's community outreach and educational programs and running the site's internal communications. How did you get to this job (education etc.)? I got this job through my... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Senior Developer at epiGenesys Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of The University of Sheffield. Scientific Discipline/Field: Software Engineering Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G Website: http://www.jgxenite.org/ What does your job involve? Many things! I'm a software developer by trade, so my job mostly revolves around speaking to customers, investigating the problems they want... Continue Reading →
This list of University LGBT Staff associations is based on sites easily google-able (and it is a work in progress) - if your association isn't on here, it's just because it wasn't found in our initial search, feel free to send us the details to stemlgbt@gmail.com and we'll add it in. Canada University of Toronto... Continue Reading →
Current Job: PhD student at the University of Sheffield Scientific Discipline/Field: Ecology/Biogeochemistry Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G What does your job involve? I’m a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Sheffield looking into the role of vegetation in methane fluxes across Arctic tundra in Alaska. The ultimate goal of my PhD is understanding the... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Database development officer Scientific Discipline/Field: ICT / Computer Science Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): I ID as gay, but technically I'm a lesbian. What does your job involve? Working with people, writing specifications, writing and testing code, writing, testing and optimising reports, lots of email, lots of phone calls and lots of learning. How did... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Research Analyst Scientific Discipline/Field: Analytical Chemistry Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): L Website? Twitter, Website What does your job involve? I work as a research analyst in the Organic Geochemistry Unit at a UK university. My job is partially a technical role troubleshooting and (theoretically!) fixing analytical instrumentation when things go wrong, along with... Continue Reading →
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