The L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science UK & Ireland Rising Talent Fellows 2023 were announced at an event at the Houses of Parliament on 25 April 2023.
Each Rising Talent received a grant to support a 12-month period of research. The awards have been designed to provide flexible and practical financial support for winners to spend on scientific equipment, paying for childcare, travel costs or indeed whatever they need to continue their research.
Dr Amparo Güemes González is a postdoctoral 1851 Research Fellow at the Bioelectronic Lab at the University of Cambridge and her current interdisciplinary research aims to develop advanced algorithms and neurotechnology to be integrated into a closed-loop platform to improve glucose control for people with type 1 diabetes. Amparo received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London.
Dr Khushboo Borah Slater is a scientist working in tuberculosis and leprosy infectious diseases at the University of Surrey. Her goal is to innovate fluxomic technology (a particular omics-based scientific approach) for studying human metabolic reprogramming during infection that could lead to the development of new therapeutics for better clinical outcomes. She has a PhD in Plant Sciences from the University of Oxford.
Dr Jane Ivy Coons is an early career fellow at St John’s College, Oxford and an affiliate researcher at the University of Oxford’s Mathematical Institute. Her research is in the field of algebraic statistics, meaning she uses algebra, combinatorics, and other branches of theoretical mathematics to explain the geometry of statistical models. She has a PhD from North Carolina State University.
Dr Kara Lynch is a nuclear physicist and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Manchester, where she is using laser spectroscopy (the study of the electronic energy levels of the atom) and decay spectroscopy (the study of the radioactive decay of the nucleus) to understand the structure of exotic nuclei. Kara received her PhD from the University of Manchester as a CERN Doctoral student.
Dr Sophie Nixon is a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) David Phillips Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, where she is studying life in the deep subsurface (below ground), and other extreme environments. Her long-term goal is to harness microbial community metabolism to solve environmental problems. Sophie has a PhD in Astrobiology from the University of Edinburgh.
