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Dr. Inés Dawson
Science communicator and Oxford graduate (DPhil Biomechanics of Insect Flight)
Inés is a science communicator and Oxford graduate (DPhil Biomechanics of Insect Flight). She runs the award-winning bilingual YouTube channel Draw Curiosity, and makes science stories interesting and accessible for a wide range of audiences. An enthusiastic and entertaining educational speaker, Inés uses creativity to make complex subjects simple and fun.
Helen Tran
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When Helen looks at natural products surrounding her everyday, she doesn't just see carrots, blueberries or bell peppers, she sees materials that can be used for different types of organic electronics. As a molecular architect she works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. In this role, Helen and her team leverage polymer chemistry and self-assembly to construct macromolecular bioelectronics. Helen gained her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 2009. A post-baccalaureate fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs followed before picking up her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University in 2016.
Na Li
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Na is the Chief-of-Staff for the Life Science Chemistry Business Unit, within the Life Science business of Merck KgaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Together with her team she is on a quest for a new era of electronics that will change our daily lives. Na earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Nankai University in 2013. She visited the Alan G MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, at the University of Texas at Dallas during her PhD study, and later joined the NanoTech Institute as a Postdoc and then a Research Scientist.