Alan Boyd is currently on an MRC-sponsored internship at the Naked Scientists. When not doing science communication, he is a PhD research student with the MRC Institute of Hearing Research and the Centre for excellence in Signal and Image Processing (CeSIP) at the University of Strathclyde, both in Glasgow. He is also the Editor of the GIST student science magazine at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, a writer for the Scientific American Incubator blog and former producer of the EUSci science magazine podcast.
Outside of science, he enjoys odd musical endeavours and cake.