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I live in London with my family. I have lived in London for my whole life and still live very close to my old school and school friends. I love watching supernatural TV shows as well as science documentaries (a very weird combination!). My pronouns are she/her.

I currently research the ways in which diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease begin and how we can develop a cure. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting around 6 in every 10 people with dementia. In Alzheimer’s disease, changes occur in the brain that go beyond those associated with normal ageing. These changes include the build-up of two proteins, called amyloid and tau. I also study prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and “mad cow disease”.

During the weekdays, I usually wake up at 6:30am and am usually out of the house by around 7:30am. I catch the tube into work every morning. I usually listen to a podcast in the morning or catch-up on TV shows that I have missed. I tend to get into work at around 8:30am and spend then next half hour planning my day. There are usually multiple experiments going on everyday so planning what I do everyday is very important or I end up running around more than I’d like.