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I live in a cottage out in the countryside near the Forest of Bowland, where I grow my own veggies, keep a couple of bumble bee colonies and maintain wildflowers for bees and butterflies.

I cycle to work daily, and have just started using cleats, and wow are they way more fun than reglar pedals!

I’m more of a fan of Futurama than the Simpsons, but I grew up watching both of them religiously. I also have a soft spot in my heart for anime, the first I ever watched was Akira when I was 13.

I have just returned from working for two years at a university in Brazil. There I was researching how insects transfer diseases between trees.

Now I have returned to England to work at Lancaster University, researching emerging methods for observing bees in flight. I just  finished testing a laser based system for tracking a bee in a field.

I am now looking to spend a summer recording how different bees behave around a mixture of different flowers, and whether individuals have personalities that make them want to eat only a certain mix.

After I cycle into work, I grab a cup of coffee and have a sit down and a chat with my office mates.

Depending on the day, I’ll have planned to immediately get back outside again once the coffee is done or into the lab to run some analyses or… stay at my desk and carry on with statistical analysis or writing.