Just me, myself and I
I was born in 1978 in Chorley Lancashire and grew up in Leyland. I attended Farrington primary school and then Wellfield Secondary Modern School, then Runshaw College. My parents Anne and Dave worked as a social worker and a farmer.
See league table of schools in Lancashire
After attending Runshaw college I looked around at Universities and decided on the University of Sheffield. The decision was largly based on the fact that I wanted to study materials science, they have a good Department of Engineering Materials at Sheffield, and Sheffield seemed better than Manchester or Birmingham as a place to live.
Investigating options after finishing at Sheffield I stumbled on a new MPhil modelling of materials course at the University of Cambridge. After completing the one year course I started my current studies, investigating a novel bainitic steel.
My research group is mostly Japanese at the moment, this is my name translated into japanese (chinese characters).
Hmm... you can probably learn more about me by looking at my other webpages.
I like: music, reading, rowing, cycling, eating, radio 1, radio 4, movies, procrastinating, technology, science, the element iron, chess, some people.
I dislike: tomatoes.
You can see what music i'm listning too here: Audioscrobbler profile.
Livejournal page of my imginary pet lizard
Jumping on the bandwagon too late, I know have a blog and have been playing with flickr which is a site for sharing photographs ONlin e