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Building and training human tendons in the lab

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Developing pharmaceuticals from biological origins, such as vaccines. Later, as a teenager, I developed interests in life sciences and astronomy, although I was most interested in spending time with friends! I went on to do a bachelor’s and master’s degree in medical and pharmaceutical biotechnology in Austria.

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Examining the extremely small

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It was an interest in astronomy that inspired me to study physics and become a spectroscopist. For example, the automobile industry uses spectroscopy to inspect materials while the pharmaceutical industry uses it to characterise drugs. CeNS has information about academic and non-academic careers in nanoscience: www.cens.de/careers

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Dr Sarah Harris Theoretical physicist, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds. Computational tools are used throughout the pharmaceutical industry. Learning computing and computer programming will also be beneficial. Scientific imaging in physics. Sarah’s research. Sarah’s interests are in understanding biology. “I