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Justin Lawley
Come on!!!!!! Cool videos are better than another website. Awesome videos about the physiology of exercise and training will be ace!!!!!!! vote for me!!!!
My CV
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Education:
Eirias High School, Old Colwyn, Conwy, Wales
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Qualifications:
Bangor University, School of Sport Health and Exercise Sciences
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Work History:
Conwy Council, during my degree I was also a support worker for a partially sighted social worker
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Current Job:
PhD Student (Interestingly, after 6 years of education and I am close to being a Dr. but I still make the tea/coffee)
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When people climb high mountains like Everest, they sometimes get very sick and suffer headaches and vomiting. My work generally aims to find out why. As headaches seem to be the main problem, the brain seems like the most obvious place to start looking. Luckily for me, some boffins realised that using very powerful magnets you can look inside someones brain (see the pictures of my friends and my brain. COOL HEY!!! ). It is called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). I use MRI to see if peoples brains expand when I don’t give them enough oxygen to breathe and when they get headaches. Other work we do in our science lab mainly consist of making people very cold (me after 2 hours at zero degree centigrade, by the way, that number at the front is my core temprature (the temprature inside my body) it is normally 37.5, very very cold)) or very hot and seeing how it effects their ability to exercise. As you can see most of my research just makes people feel pretty rubbish, but I like it…..
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My Typical Day:
Wake up, try and do as much as is physically possible in one day. Go to sleep, repeat.
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Well, I recently bought a big van which I have converted into a motorhome. I mostly wake up in the van as I have normally worked late in the office or I have been out into the Snowdonia mountains (a huge advantage of studying at Bangor). If it is a normal working day then the routine is simple, check e-mails, read some science, check e-mails, probably write something down (in a PhD you have to write a huge document discussing all the work you have done) and then maybe go to the gym to lift some heavy weights (not every day mind). If it happens to be a testing day then I am in for the long haul. Normally, I start setting up the lab either the night before or between 5:30 – 6.00am. Subjects arrive at 7.00am and they are in the environmental chamber until 5pm and lab til 7pm. Then me and my team tidy and clean all the equipment and try to find some time to eat and sleep. However, sometimes I get to go away on expedition to do science. Me at 5050 meters in the Himalayas where the morning temperature was -30!!!!. We were looking at how oxygen gets from the air to you leg muscles and why you can not exercise as hard at high altitude. Now, if it is my day off, then it’s play time. I love the outdoors and this is where you will normally find me if I am not in University.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
Create awesome science videos (although, there is no charge for awesomeness, just for borrowing the video equipment)
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Opinionated (often wrong!!!), creative and enthusiastic
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Yeah. School report from 4 to 18 read clever and bright if only he would stop talking. Interestingly, my current supervisors still say the same thing, I guess some things don’t change.
Who is your favourite singer or band?
At the moment, The Martin Harley Band
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
Win the lottery (i’d do so much crazy science), be a nobel laureate (this is a big wish, I have more chance of winning the lottery) and invent something.
Tell us a joke.
Science jokes….. I’m in my element!!!!!! ha ha ha
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