Our postdocs

About the project

Postdoctoral researchers are essential members of the Queen's research community and get involved in multiple aspects of Queen's business beyond their research, including teaching and supervision of students, contribution to public engagement, academic citizenship, research transfer etc. They help shape our research culture and impact society at a local and global level.

Postdocs from our three Faculties are involved in a very wide range of exciting research and you can get a glimpse of who they are and what they do thanks to some initiatives we ran:

• Spotlight on Postdocs: Video Series Celebrating Queen's Researchers (National Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025)
• Profiles of postdocs and research staff (National Postdoc Appreciation Week 2024)
• Profiles of postdocs and research staff (National Postdoc Appreciation Week 2023)
• Collage of women postdocs and research staff (International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023)
• Videos featuring postdocs, introduced by members of the Queen's senior management team (National Postdoc Appreciation Week 2020)

Spotlight on Postdocs | Video Series Celebrating Queen's Researchers

During National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) 2025, held from 15–19 September, we shared a special series of short videos featuring postdoctoral researchers from across Queen’s University Belfast. These videos offer a glimpse into their exciting research, personal experiences, and the support that has helped shape their journeys.

This project celebrates the remarkable diversity and depth of postdoctoral work happening at Queen’s University Belfast and highlights the vital contributions our postdocs make, not only to the university and the research community but also to society at large.

We invite you to watch and share these stories to recognise and appreciate the incredible impact of Queen’s postdoctoral researchers.

Celebrating the outstanding postdocs and research staff at Queen's!

In celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) 2024 from 16 - 20 September, please enjoy this showcase of profiles of some of our incredible postdoctoral research staff.

You can also follow this celebratory NPAW profile showcase throughout the week via the PDC X account !

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Germany

Research Goals: "I am currently working on bioinspired smart transdermal nano-therapeutics and microneedles both for transdermal drug delivery and biosensing. I also focus on cosmetics and advanced therapies and the translational aspects of transdermal drug delivery by working on different safe and sustainable formulation principles (based on plants and natural products) as well as on the skin microbiome."

Hobbies: Theatre

School: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Country of Origin: Indonesia

Research Goals: To develop a low-cost biosensing system with high applicability and societal impact.

Hobbies: Cycling, Baking and Reading!

School: Arts, English and Languages

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Research Goals: To improve our understanding in academia, industry and wider society of how to make music technology accessible from the perspective of disabled musicians, composers and audio engineers.

Hobbies: Piano and Running!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: Developing minimally invasive drug delivery systems for better patient compliance.

Hobbies: Hiking and Photography!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: Combining diagnostics, mathematical models and next generation sequencing technologies to detect and predict parasite epidemiology and co-infection dynamics in agricultural ruminants to improve parasite management strategies.

Hobbies: Photography!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: "My research focuses on exploring sex-inequalities in ageing and age-related diseases, such as kidney disease."

Hobbies: Music and Baking!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: To investigate the role of nutrition in the prevention of disease.

Research Goals: Zumba and Travelling!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Vietnam

Research Goals: To effect real changes in policy settings for cancer control and prevention.

Hobbies: Handwriting and Handicraft!

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: Hong Kong

Research Goals: Supporting interoperability and open standards development for virtual worlds.

Hobbies: Music and Creative Writing!

School: Arts, English and Languages

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: "I'm interested in the theatrical and cultural histories of Shakespeare and Ireland, the cultural politics of the Shakespeare industry, and how Shakespeare performance disrupts cultural, sexual, and gender norms."

Hobbies: Watching films in the QFT and Reading!

School: Psychology

Country of Origin: Czech Republic

Research Goals: "My research is focused on the consumption and transmission of polarized information amongst young people in Northern Ireland."

Hobbies: Rock Climbing!

School: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Country of Origin: Pakistan

Research Goals: CO2 thermal-catalytic conversion into valuable products using heterogeneous catalysts.

Hobbies: Watching documentaries on historical events; going out with friends and family!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Iran

Research Goals: Understanding the epigenetic regulations in stem cells and cancer.

Hobbies: Word Poetry, Reading and wandering around!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: To improve the outcomes of patients with lung cancers undergoing radiotherapy by finding better ways to personalise treatment, and by making treatment safer.

Hobbies: Running and playing Guitar!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: Improve Human Eye Health by Innovative Drug Delivery.

Hobbies: Herping and Nature Photography!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: To explore how mapping deep-sea habitats can pinpoint crucial areas for conservation, helping to protect our marine ecosystems.

Hobbies: Travelling and Diving!

School: Mathematics and Physics

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: To develop advanced materials for a wide range of applications and to study light-matter interactions using computational materials science simulations and atomistic DFT calculations.

Hobbies: Travelling and listening to music!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: Improving the quality of life of patients undergoing intermittent catheterisation.

Hobbies: Dog walking and Travelling!

School: Mathematics and Physics

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: Generating high energy particles from high-power laser plasma interactions.

Hobbies: Playing Badminton and watching Movies!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: To understand the prevalence and impact of sleep disorders among individuals with vision impairment and to develop effective, non-invasive interventions that improve their sleep quality and overall quality of life.

Hobbies: Gaelic Football!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Hungary/Serbia

Research Goals: "In my research, I use the eye as a window to the brain to better understand neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis. This approach aims to identify ways to halt or slow the progression of these diseases."

Hobbies: Photography and Music!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Spain

Research Goals: Drug delivery.

Hobbies: Knitting and Reading!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: Iran

Research Goals: "My research efforts contribute to the general theme of structural health monitoring using non-destructive techniques e.g., thermal and vibration-based methods toward safe and resilient transportation networks with low carbon footprint."

Hobbies: Reading, Running, History, Mathematics and Geography!

School: History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: "My research aims to bring historical research to new audiences."

Hobbies: Bread Baking and Video Games!

School: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: "I hope to begin independent research in the near future."

Hobbies: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and eating Tacos!

School: Mathematics and Physics

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Research Goals: "As part of the Smart Nano NI Project (smartnanoni.com) we are working with NI-based photonics companies to develop miniaturised sensing devices."

Hobbies: Playing Football and Travelling!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: "I am interested in ion channels, cancer therapy resistance and improving patient QOL."

Hobbies: Reading and G4M&O!

School: Mathematics and Physics

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: Modelling of photoionized plasmas.

Hobbies: Walking!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Argentina

Research Goals: Transdermal drug delivery.

Hobbies: Swimming and Reading!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Nigeria

Research Goals: To understand how mRNA localisation affects cell behaviour and tissue biology.

Hobbies: Reading and Writing!

School: Mathematics and Physics

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: Exploring biomedical applications, with a long-term interest in translational Medical Devices of commercial scalability based on Photonics technologies at the interface of Biomedical imaging, Instrumentation & device development coupled with ML/DL for better diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human diseases. Additional specific interest in Quantum Technologies.

Hobbies: Badminton and Football!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Bangladesh

Research Goals: To alleviate the suffering of cancer patients by discovering better treatment regimens.

Hobbies: Football and Badminton!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: Designing towards a more resilient island of Ireland.

Hobbies: Drawing and Hiking!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Research Goals: To elucidate the responses of global peatlands to past and future environmental changes, including fluxes of carbon and potentially toxic elements.

Hobbies: Running, Football and exploring our natural world!

School: History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Country of Origin: Rina is an ethnomusicologist. She comes form a multicultural background, with roots in Ireland and on the European continent.

Research Goals: To explore and show the multiplicity of the benefits of music for society.

Hobbies: All genres of music and exploring why and how people play their music!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: The prevention of medical device associated infections through light activated materials.

Hobbies: Gardening and Travelling!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: Philippines

Research Goals: To develop and validate method in order to quantify plant toxin (tropane alkaloids) in foods.

Hobbies: Cooking and Traveling!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: "My research focuses on thermochemical conversion of biomass and its environmental applications with special emphasis on energy enrichment, wastewater treatment, resource recovery thereby promoting circular economy."

Hobbies: Table Tennis and Drawing!

School: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: To synthesize liquid crystal molecules that can be utilized in liquid crystal display (LCD) industries.

Hobbies: Music and overthinking!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: Development of sustained release biologic loaded implants for ocular delivery!

Hobbies: Cricket and listening to Music!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: Analysing real world data on the patterns of medication use and the benefits and risks of medications to ensure safe and effective use of medication.

Hobbies: Yoga and Cooking!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: Nigeria

Research Goals: "My goal is to understand metabolic coupling and microbial community response to nutrients in freshwater systems. Specifically, how the interaction between methanotrophs and cyanobacteria impacts climate change."

Hobbies: Playing Football and Video Games!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: "I am focusing on sustainable farming and Net Zero livestock farming."

Hobbies: Reading and Farming!

School: Mathematics and Physics

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: Development of high energy/high power solid-state lasers and studies on laser-plasma interactions viz. characterization of x- ray and ions emission from laser produced plasma, laser-driven shock studies. Time Resolved X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy of dynamically compressed materials. Opacity measurement of heated materials, Experimental Astrophysics using lasers.

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: Small and compact antenna design for lossy medium like human body tissues.

Hobbies: Acting in dramatics and Cooking!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: "My research aims to develop and optimize plasma technology as a sustainable method to enhance antibiotic efficacy against biofilms and degrade antibiotic residues, thereby reducing antimicrobial resistance and improving water sanitation globally."

Hobbies: Fencing!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: China

Research Goals: Focus on helping people understand the biogeochemical cycle of agronomic managed grasslands, arsenic and associated elements are of particular interest.

Hobbies: Drinking, Rowing and Powerlifting!

School: Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Country of Origin: China

Research Goals: "This research aims to produce a visually engaging compilation of narratives from diverse perspectives, providing a comprehensive understanding of islands for urban planners, designers, environmental advocates, authorities, and other stakeholders. It explores various visual mapping languages used in island storytelling, delving into the multifaceted perspectives that shape these narratives."

Hobbies: Arts and Singing!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: China

Research Goals: Develop high throughput bioassays to improve toxicological assessment of potential endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Hobbies: Hiking and Gardening!

Celebrating the outstanding postdocs and research staff at Queen's!

In celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) 2023 from 18 - 22 September, please enjoy this showcase of profiles of Queen's postdocs and research staff throughout the week.

More profiles coming soon!

You can also follow this celebratory NPAW profile showcase via this PDC Twitter thread !

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Germany

Research Goals: "My research is focused on using different types of natural nanocarriers and microneedles for transdermal delivery of "difficult-to-deliver" drugs."

School: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Country of Origin: Indonesia

Research Goals: "My research goal is to develop nanotechnology-integrated biosensors and utilize multidisciplinary approaches to enhance food safety and quality, healthcare and diagnostic systems, and environmental control, with the ultimate aim of improving the well-being of society and nature."

Hobbies: Baking, reading and cycling!

School: Arts, English and Languages

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Research Goals: "To improve our understanding in academia, industry and wider society of how to make music technology accessible from the perspective of disabled musicians, composers and audio engineers."

Hobbies: Piano and running!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Brazil

Research: New formulation based on microtechnology

Hobbies: Watching podcasts!

School: History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research: "My research focuses on socio-ecological transitions for a healthier, fairer and more sustainable future."

Hobbies: Arts and crafts; walking!

School: Psychology

Country of Origin: India

Research: Development of Responsible AI Algorithms, Affective Computing, Mental Health, Natural Language Processing, Fairness in AI, and Machine Learning.

Hobbies: Photography and reading books!

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: Pakistan

Research Goals: To advance risk assessment within intricate business networks through the creation of innovative AI-assisted strategies that replace current methods and minimise false positives in the risk flagging system.

Hobbies: Cooking and a nature walk!

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: Iran

Research Goals: To use event-based sensors for underwater applications to protect marine life in the vicinity of tidal energy convertors. To handle the data obtained from these sensors, FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) technology is utilized for efficient and effective processing.

Hobbies: Exploring new destinations and engaging in problem-solving activities!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: To make cities more resilient and sustainable for health and wellbeing.

Hobbies: Spiritual reading and dancing!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: To conduct research that can be of academic and practical interest, and to actively engage participants in the research process.

Hobbies: Reading, running and music!

School: Mathematics and Physics

Country of Origin: Indonesia

Research: Micro and nano-fabrication for biosensors technology.

Hobbies: Reading and Cycling!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: China

Research: Global health and well-being.

Hobbies: Listening to music and reading!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research: "Here, we have conducted a questionnaire study to assess what factors would influence heart failure patients’ acceptance of a digital health intervention in an effort to reduce the burden of this disease on the healthcare system."

Hobbies: Running and yoga!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: To investigate the role of nutrition in the prevention of disease.

Hobbies: Zumba and travelling!

School: Psychology

Country of Origin: Scotland

Research Goals: To codevelop digital screening and monitoring tool for psychosocial screening of youth living with type 1 diabetes, and to codevelop a tool for carers of those living with rare disease in NI to reduce loneliness, isolation and improve resilience.

Hobbies: Sea swimming and painting/art!

School: Arts, English and Languages

Country of Origin: Italy

Research: Exploring the early mediaeval environment and the natural world, with a focus on (but not limited to) early medieval England and a particular interest in water.

Hobbies: Swimming, travelling and reading!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research: Applied climate regeneration design using nature-based solutions, circular economy principles and co-creation processes.

Hobbies: Zumba and cooking!

School: Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research: "I am currently involved in a qualitative longitudinal study gathering lived experience of children and families related to their perception of community and it's relation to outcomes in health, wellbeing, and education."

Hobbies: Music and painting!

School: Law

Country of Origin: Wales

Research Goals: "I am interested in conducting research that amplifies voices and ‘ways of knowing’ that are often side-lined in society and academia."

Hobbies: "Getting out in nature with my kids & I'm a bit of a gym rat!"

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Research Goals: "My research journey is focused on making meaningful contributions to cancer health economics, advocating for improved cancer care, and working with diverse stakeholders to create evidence-based strategies that optimize cancer screening and patient outcomes."

Hobbies: Yoga and hiking!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Iran

Research Goals: Understanding the epigenetic regulations in stem cells.

Hobbies: Reading and word poetry!

School: Arts, English and Languages

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: "My research background is in Celtic Languages, Theoretical Syntax and Onomastics. I am interested syntactic and structural differences between Irish, Irish English and typologically related languages."

Hobbies: Cooking and Triathlon!

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: Spain

Research Goals: "Develop portable real-time imaging systems for security inspection and infrastructure monitoring."

Hobbies: Hiking and playing football!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Spain

Research Goals: "I want to incorporate the planetary health approach on my research through the analysis of health and environmental co-benefits in urban environments."

Hobbies: Yoga and cinema!

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: China

Research Goals: "Advancing machine learning and computer vision algorithms for a better world."

Hobbies: Reading!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Portugal

Research: Host pathogen interactions, how bacteria (Klebsiella pneumoniae) evades the innate immune system to promote infection.

Hobbies: Reading and DIY!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: India

Research: "My research is part of the NIH Gateway Research Infrastructure on Exposome Studies focused on improving urban living environments for healthy ageing."

Hobbies: Singing, playing badminton and reading biographies!

School: History and Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research: "It is within our remit as social scientists to understand the world better, to understand social problems and provide avenues of further knowledge and solutions to real life problems."

Hobbies: Art and languages!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research: Investigating novel therapeutic strategies to treat cystic fibrosis airways disease.

Hobbies: Weightlifting and swimming!

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: Spain

Research: Subsurface radar imaging systems for detecting buried explosive threats.

Hobbies: Gym and cooking!

School: Psychology

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Research Goals: To develop a profile of impactful research that benefit hidden and hard-to-reach groups who experience traumatic stress.

Hobbies: Baking and eating!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Spain

Research Goals: To understand immune synapse formation, endocytosis and antigen presentation in B cells in order to propose new therapy strategies for maladies related to B cell-mediated immunodeficiencies or malignancy.

Hobbies: Hiking!

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: Iran

Research Goals: Energy efficiency in wireless communication systems

Hobbies: Watching movies and playing football!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: Northern Mariana Islands

Research Goals: To improve our understanding of the UK's changing ethnic geographies by focusing on ethnic diversity, residential segregation, socio-spatial inequalities, and migration.

Hobbies: Travelling and watching basketball!

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: Pakistan

Research Goals: "Utilizing retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to provide context to pre-trained large language models on various natural language processing(NLP) tasks."

Hobbies: Fishing!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: India

Research Goals: "My broader research goals are aimed to work and discover the technology to eradicate the cancers. Currently, I'm working on nanomaterials."

Hobbies: Painting, photography and swimming!

School: Psychology

Country of Origin: Pakistan

Research Goals: "Through this research collaboration, I would like to learn about research practices in different fields and work towards better quality of life."

Hobbies: Gardening and cooking!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research: Biological interrogation of early-stage colorectal cancer.

Hobbies: Cooking!

School: Nursing and Midwifery

Country of Origin: United Kingdom (Liverpool)

Research: Reducing inequalities in access, experience and outcomes of palliative care. Current project aims to improve integration of palliative care and oncology (cancer care).

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research: "We have developed novel gold nanoparticles designed to enhance the killing effects of radiotherapy for cancer patients."

Hobbies: Playing guitar and singing!

School: Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Country of Origin: Nigeria

Research: Investigation of new AI generative model for FinTech compliance checking and automation of novelty checking in new studies or research papers.

Hobbies: Programming and tours of historic places!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Nigeria

Research: "My research goal is to empower health and sustainability while harnessing the microbial tapestry. "

Hobbies: Music and football!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: India

Research: 1. Monitoring traces of antibiotics and antifungals in wastewater. 2. Tracing antidepressants in human breast milk.

Hobbies: Painting and Cooking!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Sri Lanka

Research Goals: "I aim to eliminate avoidable blindness and visual impairment in LMICs, by translating high quality evidence into practice, aligned with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals."

Hobbies: Playing cricket and visiting museums!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Nigeria

Research Goals: "To understand how mRNA localization affects cell behaviour and tissue biology."

Hobbies: Writing and video gaming!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Iran

Research Goals: "My research goal is to integrate molecular biology and clinical information in cancer research to enhance our comprehension of cancer biology and therapeutic outcomes. I aim to position colorectal cancer models and align them with human data, facilitating stratified preclinical and clinical trials for more effective treatments."

Hobbies: Hiking in nature and playing guitar!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Bangladesh

Research Goals: "Cancer research is a global team effort and my aim is to significantly contribute in this team."

Hobbies: Football and cricket!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Spain

Research Goals: "Understanding the factors involved in bacterial infections leading to pneumonia, and using that knowledge to develop new therapies."

Hobbies: Travelling and cinema!

School: History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Country of Origin: Multicultural European

Research Goals: International contexts of traditional Irish community music-making, image constructions of 'The Celtic', influences of the former 'Iron Curtain', Turkish folk music of 'The Celtic'.

Hobbies: All music!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: Better therapies for the treatment of lung cancer via immune cell manipulation.

Hobbies: Weightlifting and activism!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: Understand and quantify the impacts of global changes on ecosystems, economies and health.

Hobbies: Badminton and weightlifting!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: The Philippines

Research: Developing rapid methods for the determination of food contaminants.

Hobbies: Cooking!

School: Biological Sciences

Country of Origin: Saudi Arabia (Jeddah)

Research Goals: "I aim to become an independent researcher in the academic sector to understand and deeply investigate the central nervous system, focusing on learning and memory as a function and addiction as a disorder."

Hobbies: Construction games (Lego)!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: Examine the utilisation of medicines at the population level and investigate the risks and benefits of medications using real world data.

Hobbies: Yoga and gardening!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: Nigeria

Research Goals: "My goal is to use my multidisciplinary expertise to find novel solutions for the stabilisation and valorisation of sands and waste streams through biocementation induced by microorganisms."

Hobbies: Playing football and video games!

School: Natural and Built Environment

Country of Origin: India

Research: Novel Concrete Technology.

Hobbies: Volleyball!

School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Country of Origin: India

Research: I am investigating the effects of different anti-cancer treatments on mRNA translation and decay machinery and trying to elucidate the effect of this machinery in anti-cancer drug resistance.

Hobbies: Music, tennis and many more!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Ireland

Research Goals: "I want to use cold plasma to create new ways to fight superbugs that are resistant to current antibiotics, making treatments more effective and improving health outcomes for everyone."

Hobbies: Fencing!

School: Mathematics and Physics

Country of Origin: Nigeria

Research Goals: Areas of traffic flow modelling and fixed point theory with applications to real world problems such as network problems, image processing, machine learning, radiation therapy and signal processing.

Hobbies: Reading and playing indoor games!

School: Nursing and Midwifery

Country of Origin: Northern Ireland

Research Goals: "Improving mental health and well-being has always been a very keen research goal for me and something that I strive to keep as at least an aspect of my role as I move between research projects; be it for individuals in the workplace, veterans, carers of those with learning disabilities or patients with kidney disease."

Hobbies: Music and yoga!

School: Pharmacy

Country of Origin: Jordan

Research Goals: "I am doing research in Pharmaceutical Technology and Drug Delivery, focusing on drug formulation and delivery using MAPs. I am very interested about interdisciplinary research between microbiology and drug delivery to combat antimicrobial resistance."

Hobbies: Walking, travelling, cooking, swimming and watching TV series!

Celebrating the amazing postdocs and research staff at Queen's!

International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated on 11 February each year. In 2023, to mark this day of celebration, Dr Linda Oyama (School of Biological Sciences) and Erin Davidson (Postdoctoral Development Centre) partnered to create this collage of some of Queen's fantastic science-based postdocs and research staff who identify as women.

MHLS Postdocs

This video from 2020 features postdocs from the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences and is introduced by Prof Emma Flynn, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Queen's Research, highlighting the contribution of postdocs to research culture and academic citizenship.

MHLS Postdocs

This video from 2020 features postdocs from the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences and is introduced by Prof Stuart Elborn, MHLS Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor, highlighting how they have stepped up during the COVID-19 pandemics.

EPS Postdocs

This video from 2020 features postdocs from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and is introduced by Prof Chris Johnson, EPS Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor, highlighting their contribution to research.

AHSS Postdocs

This video from 2020 features postdocs from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and is introduced by Prof Nola Hewitt-Dundas, AHSS Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor, highlighting the contribution of postdocs to teaching and student supervision and mentoring.

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