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Lisa Fitzgerald

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education:

    Kendrick Girls Grammar School, Year 7-13

  • Qualifications:

    University of Bath (Undergraduate & PhD)

  • Work History:

    Making snake arm robots at OC Robotics and testing bone substitute materials at the University of Bath.

  • Current Job:

    Postgraduate researcher in the Centre for Orthopaedic Biomechanics at the University of Bath

  • Employer:

    University of Bath

  • Favourite thing to do in my job: Using engineering principles to understand the human body and help develop equipment and implants that can help give people their life back when their body lets them down.

  • My Work

    I develop moving models of human joints to use to test how implants move compared to the natural body.

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  • My Typical Day

    I spend most days doing a combination of reading papers to keep up to date, developing and building new test rigs, and carrying out experiments.

  • What I'd do with the prize money

    Spread the word about what engineering really is so that more people realise it is an exciting and varied discipline which plays a part in every part of our lives.

  • My Interview

    • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

      Hard working, Caring, Fun

      What's the best thing you've ever done in your career?

      I honestly don’t know – I guess you’ll have to ask he people I work with!

      Were you ever in trouble at school?

      Sadly I don’t have any good anecdotes for this one … was a bit of a geek!

  • My profile link:
    https://ias.im/u.20843

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