"Leader, manager, role model, women in STEM, authenticity champion! According to my personality quiz I am a Campaigner, Influencer and a Manager. I recognise many of these personality traits - I am persuasive, good at motivating people and getting them to work together, and passionate about what I do!"

"I am a radiation protection scientist at UKHSA (which was Public Health England until October 2021). I manage a research group looking at the effects of ionising radiation on DNA, and as part of this I manage the UK Cytogenetic Dosimetry Service: https://www.ukhsa-protectionservices.org.uk/cds. We are also interested in a wide range of radiation protection research topics, including Acute Radiation Syndrome, heritable effects of radiation exposure, and radiation cataracts. I have published well over 100 peer review journal papers, I lecture on several courses and I have had a number of PhD students through now, so though I am a civil servant, I am a very academic one! I also lead the EURADOS (https://eurados.sckcen.be/) network retrospective dosimetry working group and sit on a number of international committees including most recently, ICRP who make recommendations for the system of radiation protection: https://www.icrp.org/. I also LOVE what I do!!"

"I started life as a physicist, doing my degree in physics with astrophysics with a year of industrial experience, then completed my PhD in extremely low frequency magnetic fields at Bristol University. Although my PhD was very much physics based, I was sponsored by a cancer charity so it did spark an interest in the human effects of radiation. I applied to join the Cytogenetics Group as a data analyst offering physical support in 2007 and since then have forgotten a lot of physics, learnt quite a bit of radiation biology (but not enough to fool my colleagues that I'm a biologist), and am now running the group!"

"I life in London with my husband, two children and our relatively new dog. In my spare time such as it is I love to run and have done several marathons now. I also enjoy reading and writing science fiction and experimenting in the kitchen - I have been vegan for four years and I love it. "

"There is no typical day - they are all different! I undertake scientific research, teach, give presentations on my work to diverse scientific and lay audiences, attend committee meetings, write scientific journal papers, talk to existing and new potential colleagues about new ideas, apply for internal and external funding, do statistical analysis to support my colleagues, supervise my PhD and MSc students, talk to my mentees, send millions of emails administrating my various projects, and in my spare time organise activities on topics related to leadership development to help bring happiness and joy to our work place. "

"A Levels in Physics, Biology, Maths and EnglishBSc PhysicsPhD PhysicsFSRPFInstPCSciI am proud of every single one of these!"