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I’m a PhD student at the University of Sheffield and am one of the many scientists out there in the world looking at tackling the energy crisis of the future.  I am hoping to produce a new pathway for the production of hydrogen via sunlight.

It’s really exciting to see so much work being done on an area that is really important for the future, but fingers crossed I’ll get there first :p.

As there is so much to learn and not much time to do it in, I often have to plan my days quite well.  As I’m involved in looking at devices, sometimes this means I’m in the lab fabricating new devices and other days I’ll be testing them.  Sometimes of course, I have to spend time in the office going over my results and learning about what other people in my area are doing.  Each day can be really varied and it is surprising how long certain tasks can take.

I have fun though with the people I work with and get to use some really cool equipment including lasers for analysis and a device that recreates the sun inside my fume hood.