Dr. Carolyn Carr received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Oxford. She worked with MR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry both within the Chemistry Department in Oxford and also in industry for Kodak Ltd and Synaptica Ltd. During her PhD, she used MRS to study the conformation of small molecules in solution, and as a post-doc, she moved on to study the conformation of larger molecules such as peptides and proteins. Since joining the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics at Oxford, she has been using MR imaging to measure heart function. More recently, her research has investigated metabolic changes in stem cells as they differentiate, as well as their use to study metabolic disorders such as diabetes. She is the Honorary Secretary of the British Society for Cardiovascular Research.