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I’m just a guy, you know? I live in Edinburgh, just near where I grew up, I like waistcoats and bow-ties, because both are extremely cool, I write a bit and read a lot, and I probably shouldn’t be allowed a Netflix account (sometimes days just disappear).

We can use fibre optics to get light from one place to another, and that means that we can take pictures of anywhere that we can shove them, like down your throat or up the other end, or in my case, inside your lungs. The trouble is, the pictures we get back aren’t very good, so I try to work out ways to take better ones.

I come in, make a nice cup of tea, then if there’s not too many people wanting to talk to me I go into a really dark lab with no windows, turn the lights off and try to get my laser beams to go in the right direction so that I can bounce them off things to take pictures. When I can’t get it to work right, I ask the people who I work with for help, because they’ve done this kind of thing more than I have. I then go and try again to get the lasers going the right way. Sometimes they do, and then I have another cup of tea to celebrate.