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larissa — Larissa Suzuki

Linzi — Linzi Dodd

EmmaMeehan3 — Emma Meehan
Meet Emma, the senior science technician working on experiments in the deepest mine in the UK!

Haymarket TunnelPic Peter Devlin — Angus MacGregor
Meet Angus, a geotechnical engineer that provides advice and guidance to his colleagues.

Jack Haworth for inventive 2 — Jack Haworth

ChrisRobinson Tank 4 LTA photo — Christopher Robinson
Meet Christopher, an electronics technician at ISIS with STFC

Joshua Macabuag

Picture of civil engineer Paula McMahon. — Paula McMahon

sian inventive — Sian Cleaver

stewart_franks_toengineering — Stewart Franks

MikaS_photo1 — Mika Shearwood
Meet Mika, a software engineering apprentice with the STFC.

enass inventive — Enass Abo-Hamed

greg_bowie_inventive1 — Greg Bowie
Biomedical materials engineer Greg is featured in the Inventive Podcast. Join him to find out how the structures he designs help injuries heal.

paul_mann_1 — Paul Mann

Ellie Gangel-2-1650 — Ellie Gangel
Software development apprentice with Accenture in Newcastle.

Harri bridge — Harri Beatie

jens — Jens Dopke
Meet Jens, a senior detector scientist at STFC.

Ann Cairns from Mastercard images — Ann Cairns
From serving coffee in Newcastle Station as a teenager, to President of International Markets for one of the largest finance companies in the world.

Melinda Baptista

Joss Brown for NECOP — Josslynne Masters

vikash_kumar_1 — Vikash Kumar

MannyOlaiya — Emmanuel Olaiya
Meet Emmanuel Olaiya, a Particle Physicist with the STFC.

Ruth Amos 2 — Ruth Amos
Engineer, inventor and YouTuber Ruth Amos - her story, challenges, and motivations.

jane_entwistle — Jane Entwistle
Profile of Jane Entwistle, Professor of environmental geochemistry at Northumbria University, Newcastle.

Milly Kelly — Milly Kelly
Foundation course physics student, patching her missing maths A-level before going on to a full Physics degree at Kent.

Dr Juna Sathian (Oct 2018)-006 copy-B — Juna Sathian

kate-winter — Kate Winter

William Pilcher — William Pilcher
Meet William, the deputy IT service delivery manager with the STFC.

RoryH_photo — Rory Harris
Meet Rory, a Science Communicator placement student with the STFC

xinran — XinRan Liu
Meet XinRan Liu, a research associate at Edinburgh University

Shrouk — Shrouk El-Attar
Profile of electronic design engineer and campaigner, featured in the Inventive Podcast.

Roma Agrawal — Roma Agrawal
Structural engineer and author Roma Agrawal describes her life and motivations: how did she become an engineer?

talibnew3 — Talib Butt

Dr-Sophie-Robinson-6 — Sophie Robinson
Profile of aerospace engineer, eVTOL pioneer and swimmer, featured in Inventive Podcast episode 3.

steph — Steph Hills
Meet Steph, a European Communications Manager for the STFC

KatyEllis_Photo — Katy Ellis
Meet Katy, a computing liaison working at CERN

Jacqui Miller of Miller Engineering, Cramlington. — Jacqui Miller
Selling engineering product from Cramlington to the world

Hilonga for inventive — Askwar Hilonga
Profile of chemical engineer and clean water entrepreneur and campaigner, Askwar Hilonga. Featured in the Inventive Podcast, episode 4.

inventive manjot chana landscape — Manjot Chana

Caitlin Pugh — Caitlin Pugh
Physics and Astrophysics undergraduate at Northumbria University

CCosta — Carolina Costa

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