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I always had a very curious attitude and love for animals so science was a very easy choice of career for me. I also knew I wanted to travel around the world so speaking English was obvious. However, before I moved to Scotland my English was terrible. I am now fluent and Scotland was an easy choice as I love the wildness and green landscape of the country.  I always enjoyed being outside and going for long hikes with my doggy. On rainy days I play PS5 or do some crafts to occupy the mind and the hands and relax.

During my PhD I am trying to make a fungi that is capable of glowing independently. why? With this new fungi, we could use it to understand how the fungi infect a body by using microscopy. With the help of microscopy technique, we could reduce the number of animals tested. And have a better understanding of what is happening with the fungi.

During my first postdoc, I was working on a bacteria that affects the gut of cows and sheep. To reduce animal experiments I worked on replicating the organ (intestine) of the cow and sheep in vitro (in the lab). with these miniature organs on a plate, we can do more infection models and better understand how the cells work.

I am now working on replicating all the techniques that I learned with mussels and oysters. We are trying to understand how mussels resist all the bacteria and viruses in the water.

I am what we call a “wet” lab scientist, meaning that I spend most of my time in the lab testing different hypotheses. I also sometimes go to the fields to collect wild mussels and bivalves for experiments. Some experiments take days or hours so while I am waiting, I will have a meeting with my boss to talk about the different projects, the progress, and the future experiment. As scientists, we also go to a lot of talks and conferences to keep ourselves informed of the progress made in the scientific community. We also sometimes present our data to colleagues and others at conferences in times to times other countries. To stay informed of the progress made we also read a lot of scientific articles as well as write them to get them published in scientific journals (part of the job I am not a fan of).