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Siobhán Kehoe has a PhD in Microbiology from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She has published over thirty articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and has acted as a reviewer for a number of journals, including The Lancet.
More recently, Siobhán has turned to fictional writing. She was selected for the Date with an Agent organised as part of the Dublin Writers Festival where she pitched her first novel The Thing About My Twin, written for 8-12 year old boys and girls. She has written features for HeadStuff and writing.ie and was long-listed in the RTE Guide/Penguin Short Story Competition. She currently writes a science blog for children, www.juniorscienceblog.com. Follow Siobhán on twitter @science_junior
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