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I live with my partner of 5 years in Berkshire with our cat 🐱  who is 1.5 years old. Some people consider me a crazy cat lady and my cat gets treated like a princess! 👑 I spend my days working as an analytical scientist 👩🏼‍🔬 and much of my spare time is used to take a break! Me and my partner enjoy playing games 🎮 and we sometimes play games online with our friends. My family and most of my friends live far away so I enjoy visiting them or having them visit me 🚗. I also like spending time outside, as long as the weather isn’t too hot ☀️ or too rainy ☔️.

I work as an analytical scientist for Johnson Matthey, specifically looking at battery materials for electric vehicles. I have worked at Johnson Matthey for 3 years now, previously doing research to find new materials that would work well in batteries. Now I carry out analytical tests to look at new materials that other people in my team are researching. I use the analytical tests to check different properties of the materials and then I share those results with the team so they can work out if it is a good material or not.

Usually, I wake up at 6:45am and leave my house at 7:30am which means I get to work at 8am. I like to go in early and finish early.

When I get to work, I go up to the office and set up my desk for the day, check some emails and work out a plan for the day. Usually, there are samples for me to analyse so I go to the lab and start with those. The analysis I do can take a few hours so it’s best to start early! If I have no samples to analyse, I have other projects to work on, for example I have to develop methods for analysing different samples.

I spend most of my day in the lab, analysing samples or trying to keep the lab in tip-top shape. I also work at my desk, replying to emails, looking at data from my analysis and also writing reports of the data.

I normally go home at 4:30pm.