What is your favourite place in Sussex?

Uckfield because it is where I live, it is a nice town with great people.

I also like the Seven Sisters, and Arundel and Bodiam castles.

What do you love most about living in Sussex?

I love living in Uckfield, a lovely town with everything you need to have amazing weekends.

I love visiting the countryside, Brighton Marina and the Brighton coast too.

What advice do you have for your 12-year-old self?

It would be my mother’s advice from Matthew 17:20.

It goes: “Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

What is your most valued possession?

My family (my husband and my daughter).

What is your biggest regret?

Not having babies during my PhD.

As a female researcher, your PhD is probably the best time to do it, but I didn’t have my daughter until my first postdoctoral position and this became the busiest time I have ever had.

What is your biggest fear?

Spiders

What is your proudest achievement?

Living and working in the UK.

When I was a child growing up in Mexico I would have never imagined that!

Which five people (living or dead) would you invite to your fantasy dinner party?

Marie Curie

Nikola Tesla

Isaac Newton

James Maxwell

Daniel from the Bible.