Hello. My name is Dr Emily Maitland. I am a British postgraduate currently training to be a Secondary Mathematics Teacher. I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Manchester, graduating in 2011 with a MPhys (Hons) in Physics. I then joined the Centre for Complexity Science at the University of Warwick, obtaining an MSc in Complex Systems Science in 2012 before starting my PhD at the same department. I submitted my thesis in 2016 and finally graduated in 2017 with my PhD thesis being written on Models of Feedback and Information Processing in Stochastic Thermodynamics. It's a long and mostly boring read. Since 2017 until early 2019 I have lived in Kyoto, Japan where I was an English teacher. I loved living in a country with such a rich culture as Japan and would love to return some day. 私は日本語が喋れますから可能なら一緒に会話しり勉強しましょう！ Outside of mathematics, my interests are; philosophy, game design, cinema and Japanese.