• Question: how long have you been a scienist for?

    Asked by anon-232285 to Mark, Liam, Laura, Kasia, Gina, Felix on 13 Nov 2019.
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      Liam Gaffney answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      I started studying for my PhD when I finished my university degree in 2008, so it’s been 11 years.

      If you count all the crazy “experiments” I used to perform at home as a kid, then I’ve been a scientist my whole life!

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      Mark Johnson answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      I started my first ‘real’ reseach project during the last year of my university degree in 2014, but I’ve been a bit of a scientist ever since I was young! Growing up, I was fortunate that both of my parents are from a scientific background, so I was always tinkering with electronics, looking down a telescope, or trying to do “chemistry” in the kitchen… 🙂

    • Photo: Kasia Clarke

      Kasia Clarke answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      7 Years since I started my first degree. I’ve studied all kinds of science in that time, environmental science, geology, geophysics, geochemistry, then onto nuclear science and engineering, and now materials science. Science in school was fun, Bunsen burners and cutting up a sheep heart at one point, but not on the scale that science is done at university.

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      Laura Sinclair answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      Good question, I am not sure when one becomes a scientist? Unofficially, I have always been interested in science and doing experiments.

      Officially, I started my undergraduate degree in physics in 2008, my PhD in 2012, and my job in 2016. I’m not sure when one becomes a scientist. It doesn’t happen over night.

    • Photo: Felix Warren

      Felix Warren answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      Ive been a apprentice for around 2 and a half years

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