Samuel Watkins

Sam is a final-year Doctoral Research Student at the Healthy Infrastructure Research Group, UCL. His research funded by the Healthcare Infection Society focusses on the development for environmental surface monitoring protocols to inform clinical risk assessments and infection control procedures. His project aims to develop an evidence base for the presence of nosocomial pathogens in the hospital environment, as well as model the transmission of pathogens in clinical spaces.  He obtained an MBiol degree from Aston University in 2020, with projects focusing on C. difficile spore germination.