Profile
Clara Novo
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About Me:
I am a Portuguese scientist living in Cambridge with my family. I commute to London daily for my research and love to speak about what I do.
Outside the lab I am a photographer, an eternal dancer and a travel addict!
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I love science and I love to travel so I have use the easiness of finding a science-related job to live in different countries. I lived in Portugal, France, Belgium, Denmark and UK and both my mind/personality and my life philosophy have been forever shaped by the exposure to different cultures.
I am also very creative, so I turn to photography to balance my scientific mind. I have exhibited and sold photographs, and I even got some published in VOGUE Italy!
I also have A-levels of classical ballet, which makes me do unconsciently pirouettes in the most random places.
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My pronouns are:
She/her
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My Work:
I study how the DNA is folded inside the nucleus of the cells allows for different cell types to arise during embryo development.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
I would sponsor a student in a lab work-experience.
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Education:
Ph.D. in Genetics at the University of Leicester.
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Qualifications:
PhD
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Work History:
After completing my PhD, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute Curie (Paris) and at the Institute GIGA (Liege).
After, I joined the Babraham Institute (Cambridge) and I am currently a project research scientist at the Francis Crick Institute (London).
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Current Job:
Project Research Scientist at the Francis Crick Institute (London).
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Employer:
Francis Crick Institute
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My Interview
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What did you want to be after you left school?
Researcher
Were you ever in trouble at school?
No
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
Journalist
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