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Jyoti Mangal

Third week of I'm a Scientist! So much fun!

    • About Me:

      I am a final year PhD student in brain imaging 🧠📷 at King’s College London. I live in London. My family stays in India. I enjoy playing racquet sports especially ping pong and badminton. I also like to cycle (when the weather is good!) 🌞.

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      I was born in India and went to school and university there. UK is the first country I went to outside of India, but now that I’m here, I have been totally bitten by the travel bug! My last trip was Naples and I loved the culture and the pizzas there 🍕. I also like hiking in the mountains, which is where I was during most of the COVID lockdown year.

      You will often find me engaged in discussions about science, politics and everything in between with my friends. I’ve learnt that the key to enjoying science is to always be curious and to never stop asking questions!

    • My pronouns are:

      She/her

    • My Work:

      My research work involves finding the answer to the question “how can you use a medical machine called an MRI scanner to take high resolution images 📸 of the inside of the human body especially the human brain 🧠 “?

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      MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It’s a special kind of medical machine that doctors use to take pictures of the inside of your body. It’s kind of like taking a picture of your insides with a camera, but instead of using light, we use magnets! 🧲

      While you’re inside the machine, the magnets in the machine create a strong magnetic field around your body. My work is to understand how this magnetic field is applied and what changes I can do it to get a good – looking image. Ultimately, I want to learn how to make the MRI scanner show the tiniest of the tiny parts in the human brain so that any doctor looking at them can easily find out the health of a person for a successful diagnosis. 👩‍🔬

    • My Typical Day:

      I wake up, shower and have my coffee ☕ (when I’m not running late!). I scroll through Twitter to read up on news which is often a mix of politics, events and science.

      I cycle 🚴 to reach work around 9am. I start my work day by reading up journal papers relevant to my job. I work on my computer to do some programming for the MRI scanner. On some, not all, days, I go to the MRI scanner, to meet the person who has volunteered to be scanned. I scan them for an hour usually and save the data on my computer. I end my day with a workout session at the gym to reach home around 8pm.

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      In the MRI scanner, I’m often accompanied by the radiographer who is a healthcare professional whose job is also to understand how the scanner works and to ensure the safety of the volunteer being scanned. The volunteers can even choose to watch films or TV or netflix when they are inside the scanner so they don’t get bored! 📺

    • What I'd do with the prize money:

      If I win the prize money, I will spend it in building a school workshop that will involve getting a DJ to mix the sounds that an MRI scanner makes and turn it into fun music tracks 🎶

    My CV

    • Education:

      BBPS, New Delhi, India
      University of Delhi, India
      Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

    • Qualifications:

      GCSE, A levels
      Bachelor of Science in Physics
      Master of Science in Physics
      Master of Research in Healthcare Technologies

    • Work History:

      Research Assistant in Computational Neuroscience
      Research Assistant in Optics and Photonics
      Co-head of Events, National Indian Students and Alumni Union, UK
      Co-head of Research, National Indian Students and Alumni Union, UK

    • Current Job:

      PhD researcher in Biomedical Engineering

    • Employer:

      King’s College London

    • My Interview

      • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

        Brain imaging researcher

        What did you want to be after you left school?

        An artist... or an astronaut

        Were you ever in trouble at school?

        Maaaybe once. Or twice.

        If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?

        Climate scientist

        Who is your favourite singer or band?

        It varies but I have always liked listening to Coldplay and Radiohead

        What's your favourite food?

        Neapolitan pizza

        If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

        1) To be able to teleport myself 2)To have my own dog 3) To have a zero carbon footprint

        Tell us a joke.

        Two people walk into a bar. First person orders some H20. Second person orders some H20 too. The second person dies.

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