糖心TV

Fabienne uses computational methods to find out how to stop large ice crystals from forming in biological materials – for example blood samples or the storage of other fluids.

She said: 鈥淏eing able to communicate what you do to lay people is really important for policymaking – it informs policy, it informs other people that might actually want to be involved but don鈥檛 necessarily have that level of expertise – but you can make that accessible by explaining what you do at a more friendly, user-level.鈥�

In response to winning Silver, Fabienne added: 鈥淚鈥檓 over the moon! I never win anything and I鈥檝e worked so hard for this, so I鈥檓 really, really pleased. I know of couple of people who have applied in the past who weren鈥檛 successful but they said I should give it a go anyway to see, so I gave it a go and I was so happy to just be here – I didn鈥檛 expect to win!鈥�