I’m a Scientist starts on Monday, two weeks stuffed with creative questioning, exciting live chats and tenser-than-the-X-Factor eviction days!

Let’s meet the scientists competing for votes in the Spectroscopy Zone and the schools who’ll be challenging them…

The Scientists

 Jesus Calvo-Castro | Postdoctoral, University of the West of Scotland

I’m a chemist and I study compounds that search for explosives in bombs!!!

Baljit Ghatora | Lecturer, Kingston University

Secure the scene, collect the evidence now lets take it to the chemistry lab to analyse it

Maire Gorman | PhD Student, ExoMol Group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCL

I help astronomers work out the composition of exoplanet atmospheres-aka search for aliens!

Michael Kyriakides | Postdoctoral, Imperial College London

Describing your health using chemistry.

Arlene McBroom | GlaxoSmithKline

Like CSI only with medicines!

 The Schools

• All Saints Catholic College Specialist in Humanities, Huddersfield
• Baltasound Junior High School ,Scotland
• Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College, Hove
• Caroline Chisholm School, Northampton
• Chelsea Academy, London
• Drapers’ Academy, Romford
• Exmouth Community College, Exmouth
• Gildredge House, Eastbourne
• Mallaig High School, Highland
• Mid-Cheshire College of Further Education, Northwich
• Minster School, Southwell
• Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy, Oldbury
• St Bartholomew’s School, Newbury
• St Martin in the Fields High School for Girls, London
• St Ursula’s Convent School, London
• Standish Community High School, Wigan
• The Academy, Selsey, Chichester
• Wath Comprehensive School, Rotherham
• Winstanley College, Wigan

This zone is funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry.