It’s a perfect location as we are only 15 minutes from beaches (ideal for walking our dog), close to major cities, a short drive to the beauty of North Wales and close to both Manchester and John Lennon (Liverpool) Airports, for when I need to travel overseas on business.īRW: What do you hope the audience will learn from this webinar? It has to be the Wirral, because that’s where I live with my wife and son. The role involves a lot of travel both within the UK and globally, and I have been very fortunate to visit several countries I would not otherwise have had the opportunity to experience.īRW: Where is your favourite place in the world and why? Interactions with people, learning about new applications of the products I support and solving new problems all make the role hugely enjoyable. The most enjoyable aspect of the role is its variability– no two days are the same. The rest, as they say, is history!īRW: What do you enjoy most about your role? Fortunately, my interview went well and I was offered the position. The more I learned about what the Product Technical Specialist role entailed, the more interested I became. I was aware of Malvern because I had used one of their dynamic light scattering instruments for characterising the size distributions of liposome samples I had been synthesizing at the University of Manchester. This is a team of 11 people who provide technical support to users of instruments from Malvern’s side of the Malvern Panalytical business.Īs my postdoctoral research period was coming to an end, I saw an advertisement in New Scientist (this is how you found a job back then – before recruitment agencies existed!) for a Product Technical Specialist role with colloidal science experience at what was then known as Malvern Instruments. In 2010, Mike was appointed Technical Support Manager responsible for the Product Technical Specialist group based in the UK. In 1996, Mike joined Malvern Panalytical as a Product Technical Specialist for the Zetasizer range of instruments, directly supporting Zetasizer users. Mike followed this with postdoctoral research at the University of Manchester, studying the specific targeting of bactericides to oral and skin-associated bacteria using liposomal-based systems.
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Mike obtained his PhD from The Polytechnic of Wales (now the University of Glamorgan) where he studied the physical biochemistry of liposomes using NMR techniques, specifically looking at the interaction of a series of n-alcohols with phospholipid membranes to investigate mechanisms of anaesthesia. A conversation with Mike Kaszuba, Technical Support Manager at Malvern Panalytical