About Me
Hi, my name's Chris Baker and I'm
the coordinator of "I want a word". I'm 26 years old and currently living in
Edinburgh (as you may be able to tell from the picture on the right), though I
grew up in the small town of Paignton in Devon. One of my big ambitions in life
is to be a successful author, which is what has given rise to this site.
At the moment, writing is very much
a hobby and my real career is science. I've just completed a PhD in
computational chemistry, with my main interest being in the way that we can use computers to
help us to design new drugs. At the moment, I'm on what I guess could be
described as a "career break", though I'm intending to resume the chemistry
after I've taken some time out to do a bit of travelling.
Away from work my main hobbies are
travel (as you may have guessed from the previous paragraph), football, swimming
and hiking. Below you can see a few pictures that I think do a reasonable job of
illustrating my life. They are, from left to right: playing football in Oxford;
licking a glacier on the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, and chilling out while
dressed as popular teen rocker L'il Chris.
If you'd like to get in touch with
me, feel free to drop me a line via any of the methods listed on the "Contact
Me" page.
If you're interested, you can also check out some of my previous writing on the
"My Writing" page.
