• Question: what was your first job as a scientist

    Asked by anon-246501 to Megan, Katherine, Jesse, Dave, AJ, Amelia on 12 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Jesse Dykes

      Jesse Dykes answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      The first work I did as a scientist was for a professor who wanted to use a laser to draw patterns on different objects, and asked me to put together a setup with a laser, some lenses and mirrors, and write some software to make it happen.

    • Photo: Megan Maunder

      Megan Maunder answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      This is my first scientific job, but I did do an internship writing code for another academic once summer. It was a lot of hard maths and reading.

    • Photo: Dave Constable

      Dave Constable answered on 13 Mar 2020:

      My first science job would have been my Ph.D. I studied new types of radio frequency devices and did a lot of computer simulations to try and make them more powerful.

    • Photo: Arjuna James

      Arjuna James answered on 13 Mar 2020:

      My first proper science job was a research internship at King’s College London university. I was studying a group of chemicals called fluorescent molecular rotors and growing cells to test them in. It was a lot of fun.

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