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Congratulations and all the best on the new job!

Meet XinRan, our Head of Science, Research and Innovation 👋

🪨 XinRan is focused on building and maintaining a world leading science, research and innovation team to deliver bleeding edge research in the field of enhanced rock weathering.

🔬 XinRan is a multi-award winning particle physicist who has spent over a decade as a professional hunter of the invisible (sadly not as a Ghostbuster), building large scale dark matter and neutrino detectors in some of the deepest science facilities around the world.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 XinRan grew up in Scotland and now lives in Edinburgh with his wife and new baby girl Kate. However, his spiritual home is in Middle Earth.

⛰️ Outside of work XinRan loves hiking, cycling, kayaking and spending as much time in the Scottish Highlands as possible.

🪐 XinRan is deeply passionate about science engagement and outreach. He currently leads the Remote³ project which enables pupils from schools in the most remote parts of Scotland to build, program and operate miniature Mars Rovers in the STFC Mars Yard at the Boulby Underground Laboratory.

✨ Despite being elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in its Bicentennial year, XinRan doesn’t enjoy astronomy questions in pub quizzes as he prefers to do his universe gazing from deep underground.

The first speaker of our May event is Bella Boulderstone, the public outreach and education officer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. She has a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Southampton. Her favorite part of her current role is that she gets to talk to people from all over the world and tell them the good news about fusion energy.

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Happy palindromic ambigram Twosday 22022022 and even better at 10:02:20 pm it would be 22022022022022!

The first speaker of our November event is Ben Moore, a 3rd year PhD student studying molecular biotechnology within the Centre for Enzyme Innovation, University of Portsmouth. His research is focused on engineering the yeast species (Pichia pastoris) to express and secrete plastic-degrading enzymes. This has involved designing gene constructs computationally, using techniques like molecular cloning to assemble recombinant DNA, and transforming P. pastoris with the complete gene vectors.

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