As an accomplished science communicator, Ailie as successfully led CamBRAIN, the Cambridge Neuroscience Society for Students and Early Career Researchers, with her infectious enthusiasm for over three years and has done incredible work as a science writer for several science magazines as well as working as part of the Comms teams for the Society for Neuroscience as part of her Professional Placement.
She will take up the new Science Journalism Fellowship role after her mini postdoc in the lab. This 8-month-long fellowship supports her work writing for New Scientist magazine and is a well-deserved recognition of her dedication to science accessibility. We can’t wait to read all the stores she’ll tell in this new and exciting chapter!
CamBRAIN community is currently voting for new committee members including a new president that will take over from Ailie. Stay tuned – we will announce the new committee shortly!
Posted on 28/01/2026