Blog: Blogging the PhD
Erika Cule is a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Imperial College London, where she works on statistical methods to use genetic data in the estimation of disease risk.
Erika started blogging after her essay, Birthday Surprises, won the Imperial College Science Challenge in 2008 and went on to be published in Nature Futures and to win the Daily Telegraph/Bayer Science Writer competition.
Erika blogs about the PhD student experience in a multidisciplinary field. When she is not doing science she likes, among other things, to swim, both indoors and out.
You can read the archives of Blogging the PhD at Nature Network, where Erika started blogging in 2008.

