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I'm now a year into my job at E.ON UK in their Technology consultancy. I think I shall be working on flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) and 'Carbon Capture and Storage' (CCS) as part of E.ON's ace graduate scheme.

Who am I?

I am Stuart Norman, and have just started on the E.ON UK gradute scheme. Previous to joining 'real life' I was a student at Merton College, Oxford, one of the colleges making up the University of Oxford. I did both my Chemistry undergraduate and doctoral degrees here, amongst the "Dreaming Spires", latterly funded by a grant from the EMF Biological Research Trust, under the joint supervision of Prof. P.J. Hore and Dr. C.R. Timmel. You can see their Research Group pages here and here. I also completed my Part II project under the supervision of Prof. Hore.

You can email me at website <at> stuartnorman <dot> com - sorry to be convoluted, but I've been getting a lot of spam.

What do I like?

I'm not particularly sporty, but I enjoyed playing hockey for the joint Merton-Mansfield team, croquet in the Merton II team, and squash, badminton and football in my spare time. I also play pool far too much, and have helped get Merton into the Cuppers Final (and we finally won it this year) on a number of occasions.

I like shiny things and gadgets (combining the two is genius). I liked my bike (it gets me places I want to go, fast - until it was stolen from my front garden). I like ebay (it provided the bike, amongst other things). I like proper beer (a bit too much). I like power showers. I like monkeys (especially ginger ones).