Considered as one of the world leaders in pain estimation for newborn babies, Dr Egede has dedicated her research career to understanding the signals and triggers of pain in infants. This is a challenging area of study due to ethical limitations and complexities with data gathering.
FWIS Laureates
Sarah Pickett
Known as the ‘powerhouse of the cell’, mitochondria are responsible for converting food energy into cellular energy.
Yijing Xie
Dr Carter works to understand the effects of ‘space weather’ on the Earth’s atmosphere. Solar winds (a stream of charged particles released from the Sun) interfere with our planet’s outer atmosphere and magnetic fields, and the products of these interactions hold the potential to cause mass disruption to technology on a global scale.
Jennifer Carter
Dr Carter works to understand the effects of ‘space weather’ on the Earth’s atmosphere. Solar winds (a stream of charged particles released from the Sun) interfere with our planet’s outer atmosphere and magnetic fields, and the products of these interactions hold the potential to cause mass disruption to technology on a global scale.
Aida Cuní Sanchez
Dr Cuní Sanchez is working to understand which indigenous tree species thrive under the complex conditions of the mountainous ‘Albertine Rift’ region in Africa.