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• Education:

  Primary school: Villers Primary, Bilston

  Secondary school: Heath Park, Wolverhampton

  Masters Degree: University of Nottingham

• Qualifications:

  I gained 10 GCSEs at my secondary school and went on to gain A*AAB in Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Maths A level.

  After that, I went off to the University of Nottingham and gained a First class ‘Chemistry with a Year in Industry MSci’ degree.

• Work History:

  My first job was at Wolverhampton Library, where I worked after school and sixth form shelving and organising books, running workshops and helping members of the public.

  I then got a job as an A Level chemistry and biology tutor at university, where I tutored students online in my spare time (helping some to achieve their target grades!)

  I then did a year industrial placement while at university at GlaxoSmithKline  (they make Sensodyne, Panadol and a whole lot of medicines) in Hertfordshire doing respiratory medicine analysis.

  After I graduated I worked for a short term at Eurofins in Wolverhampton, doing testing on water samples from around the country – this included stuff from boilers, water dug out from the ground and even sewage! Yes, the lab smelled horrible.

  I now work at AstraZeneca in Macclesfield as a Graduate Analytical Scientist!

• Employer:

  AstraZeneca is the UKs largest pharmaceutical company and the 11th biggest in the world. In fact, the Macclesfield site that I work at produces around 1% of the whole of the UK’s exports.

  AstraZeneca was founded in 1999, and focus on medicines for cancer, respiratory diseases (like asthma), infection, heart problems and many rare diseases.