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  • Chris Saville

    PhD student, Earth Sciences

    University of Durham

    After studying natural sciences at Cambridge and working for three years as a physics teacher, Chris returned to university to reengage with academia and work on a PhD on tectonic geomorphology. His research expertise is in drainage profiles from orogenic plateaux. In other words he has spent three years of his life showing that rivers in flat places are also flat. His current research attempts to show that mountains are steep. He combines his research and teaching with regular outreach work, where he endeavours to show the public that science is unique in its power to explain the world.

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