CHEMISTRY inorganic, organic, analytical, physical, industrial, macromolecular (polymers/plastics) etc., organometallic, coordination
Materials science iron & steel, concrete, building materials, alloys, ceramics, composites
Chemical and process engineering Nuclear engineering Water/wastewater treatment Geology Biochemistry, biology Civil engineering Mechanical engineering
and general texts as well, of course


My main CAT tools are Transit Professional XV and Transit Professional NXT, which have full functionality - including concordance (which the "Satellite" version does not).
I also use all versions of Trados incl. 2011.

I was born and grew up in England and then went to Scotland and received a BSc Hons. in Chemistry in 1978 from St. Andrews University [minor subjects geology (2 years) and botany (1 year)]. This was followed by 2 years of research into antiforgery coatings on cheque paper at the university (no not a PhD, I earned real money!).
I have been living in Germany since 1980, and I'm married to a German PhD chemist/physicist. I started translating in 1981.

I specialise in writing scientific reports, instruction manuals, etc. in clear and precise international English, without colloquialisms, so that even non-native English speakers can read the text with ease.

Translation makes up approx. 90% of my work. The other 10% consists of analyzing documents for Chemical Abstracts - this entails reading a document, written in German or English and then writing an abstract/précis of the contents in English - and copy editing/proofreading for a chemical journal published in English (Chemistry - A European Journal). This keeps my knowledge of all fields of chemistry up to date in both languages.

Among the millions of words I have translated, I am particularly proud of
Ferrous Materials: Iron and Steel by Prof. W. Theisen and Prof. H. Berns
and
End of the 20th Century, published by the Doerner-Institut, Munich