Alessandra is a final year PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh studying regenerative targets for neurodegenerative diseases. She's also a fan of being outdoors (preferably with dogs) and a good dram of scotch.

I went to an open science hackathon and all I got was a t-shirt… and hope for the future of science
Last week I participated in the 2-day eLife Innovation Sprint. I knew the event was aimed at bringing together ‘computer people’ (programmers, designers, developers) and ‘science people’ (researchers, communicators, publishers) in order to create novel