• Question: wha made you get into your feild of work ?

    Asked by hagan to Emma, Jen, Joseph, Michael, Mona on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by emilybrockwell, marybabes23, liamw, emily124, jorjia.
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      Mona Gharaie answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I always liked to find out the solution to the unanswered questions. There are lots of questions in different fields. Of all these questions, I liked to solve the environmental problems and that’s how I got into this field.

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      Jen Gupta answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      If I’m completely honest, part of the reason why I decided to do Physics with Astrophysics at university instead of just Physics was that it sounded cool! I’ve always been interested in space and wanted to be an astronaut when I was younger (still kinda do!). NASA astronauts are either from the military or are research scientists and I didn’t want to get into a job where I might have to kill someone one day so I thought I would go down the research route!

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      Michael Taggart answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Hmm, that’s actually a tough question to answer. I guess being a runner got me interested in physiology (how the body works really) such that I focussed on that for my degree at university. Once there, the first chance I got to work in a lab and do some real experiments on my own simply got me hooked. That was studying how blood vessels respond to changes in their environmental pH. Ever since, I suppose I’ve tried to understand why things are the way they are.

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      Emma Bennett answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I never planned on studying plants, in fact they seemed really boring at school and I’m such a terrible gardener (cacti seem to be the only thing that can survive in my house because they don’t need much care) that going into this field seemed laughable. To begin with I looked into other science areas such as medical genetics but after doing a university project on plant genetics I realised just how fascinating they really were and that you could study genetics, physiology, biochemistry or pretty much anything in plants instead of being limited to one speciality – the sky really is the limit.

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