Profile
Paul O'Mahoney
Final day! I'm not sure what I'll do with myself next week :(
My CV
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Education:
Queen Anne High School – 2001-2006. Perth College – 2006-2007. University of Dundee – 2007-2015
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Qualifications:
HNC Music Performance. BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering. PhD in Physics
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Current Job:
Research Assistant
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About Me:
Half scientist, half-wit
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I live in Dundee and work at the local hospital. Outside of work stuff I like to play computer games, play music and read books. I also like to have movie nights with friends, and I am also particularly fond of really terrible puns and competing with my friends to come up with the worst ones!
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I’m involved in many different projects, all looking at ways to use light for treating skin diseases. This mainly means people with sun damaged skin, but we also use optical fibres so that we can shine light inside the body to help treat things like lung cancer!
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My Typical Day:
After finally getting in to work (I am not a morning person!) I usually spend a few minutes reminding myself of what I did yesterday, and then do things like organising meetings, going to meetings, planning experiments, doing the experiments, wondering why the experiment didn’t work, trying it again and writing up the results.
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Apart from some of the stuff I typically do everyday (like catching up on new research or coming up with crazy ideas), no one day is really the same – one of the reasons I love research. One day I could be writing code to analyse data from the sun, and the next I am in an operating theatre learning about brain surgery! Or sometimes I will be going through a bunch of emails that I had put off, and then I will be doing outreach and talking about science with the public!
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What I'd do with the prize money:
I’d fund a science exhibit or show about light in medicine
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Tall, nerdy, hungry
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Quite a few times, mostly for forgetting things like homework or textbooks
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Muse. I’ve been a huge fan for years, and they’re great live!
What's your favourite food?
Italian food mostly – and cheese!
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
Apart from the obvious ‘more wishes’, I think… a T.A.R.D.I.S, so I could go anywhere and anywhen I wanted! Also, I’d wish to forget some of my favourite books and films so I could experience them for the first time again, and I would wish that everyone in world would be a bit more tolerant of each other and get along better.
Tell us a joke.
Why cant you hear a pterodactyl go to the toilet? Because the P is silent
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