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I live in Reading.  I’m an analytical chemist for my job, but my other hobbies are exercise (running and swimming), cooking and going to the pub!  I also love to travel, although most of my trips have had to be around the UK over the last two years!

I use chemistry to solve problems for companies that make and sell food and medicine. I use lots of different instruments and techniques, from microscopes and simple chemical reactions to instruments that cost up to half a million pounds!

I get to work about 8.30, where I check my emails.  There are always lots of new enquiries from customers who would like our help to solve problems, and I need to work out which techniques would be the best.  Then I will go into the lab and make sure all the current projects that my team are working on are going well -if there are problems, we need to troubleshoot to work out how to fix the issue.  In the afternoon, I will go through all the data from the day before and check that the results make sense before sending the data to our clients.