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By BRIDGE8 under license from Mangorolla CIC 2024
Hi warren9 and jgiumelli
I believe that my scientific career has been amazing, and varied! I started out studying reproductive biology, then neuroscience, then clinical nutrition and for the last 10 years or so, pancreatic cancer! For me, in my field, it is the knowledge that one day, what I am doing may actually help people with pancreatic cancer. It is such a devastating disease with so few treatment options. Also, traveling around the country and the world presenting my research results is also a great perk of the job. In regards to lecturing, I really like trying to engage with the next crop of young scientists and hopefully guiding down the right path.
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My answer might be a little different as I no longer do any actual science research, instead I talk about research and teach people about science using TV, radio, internet and live performances. In that respect my job involves me reading and understanding the most exciting new science and then figuring out how to make other people as amazed by it as I am. It just might be the best job there is 🙂
It’s very unusual work but very rewarding!
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The variety.
Because of the things I do, most days are different from one another. I get to travel to great places, work with wildlife and pretty cool people, but also get time to at university reading and writing and talking to others about their work.
On top of all this I do a good amount of science communication, talking to the public about science which is a lot of fun too.
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I really like ideas, thinking up inventive solutions for problems that have not been uncovered before. Especially when that leads to an experiment or observation that discovers something new. In the immortal words of Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith of the 1980s TV show “The A-Team”, “I love it when a plan comes together.” On top of this, I really enjoy traveling the world and collaborating with clever people, many of whom have become great friends over the last 20 years, and I really enjoy working with my PhD students and research staff, who keep me on my toes and prevent me from sinking completely into management and administration. I enjoy showing them occasionally that the boss can still actually do science!
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Hi warren9 and jgiumelli,
I really enjoy being able to come up with ideas of things that I might want to try doing as part of my projects, and then being able to do them (experiments) myself to see if my idea worked – its really a nice feeling when it does! 🙂 I also like that no two days are ever exactly the same – you could be reading and writing, you could be doing one of several different kinds of experiment, you could be talking science with other people (students, teachers, other scientists or members of the general public), you could be presenting your work in front of an audience, you could be teaching/tutoring… the list is quite long! 🙂 I have been able to travel overseas to visit other scientists or attend conferences, and have met some really interesting people, so this is also one of the things I have enjoyed. I do really like talking with other people about science and the world around us, particularly younger students (whether that is other uni students or school students like yourselves) and actually learning things from them as well as (hopefully!) helping to nurture their interest in science. Being a science student has given me some pretty unique experiences and opportunities that I might not have had otherwise, so its been a pretty nice career so far. 🙂
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