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the whole map Six places I’ve called home, across four countries, and three more I know well and love.
Plus 226 places I’ve visited in 40 countries, taken from the places I’ve starred on Google Maps.
01 · home town · back for 2013–14 Bristol, United Kingdom Where I started life, in the Brizzle drizzle. A city I love, with so much to offer, and I came back in 2013–14 as a research assistant at the University of Bristol, comparing the brains of queens and workers in paper wasps.
02 · 1992 onwards Moraira, Spain On the Costa Blanca, and a home on and off since 1992.
03 · 2005 Odessa, Ukraine Learning Russian, after starting it at school.
04 · 2010–11 · 2019 onwards London, United Kingdom An MRes at Imperial College and the Natural History Museum, then back in 2019 for UCL, the Wasp Genomes Project and Eco-Flow.
05 · 2014–19 Barcelona, Spain An MSc at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, then a PhD on alternative splicing in early mammalian embryos at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG).
06 · 2022 onwards São Paulo, Brazil Home since 2022.
07 · know well, love Paris, France The feeling, the food and wine, the culture.
08 · know well, love Santiago, Chile The nightlife, the piscolas, the people.
09 · know well, love Vienna, Austria Friends, cycling, hiking and culture.
and everywhere else Every amber dot is somewhere I’ve been.