• Question: when did you become a scientist

    Asked by yaboo to Frank, Ian, Isabel, Jared, Zena on 16 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Isabel Pires

      Isabel Pires answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      it is a tricky question… 🙂
      Does that mean when I started to think like a scientist or actually doing science? If the first, it was when I was in high school and started larding how the scientific process work. If the second, it was when I did my research project for my 1st university degree and got to plan and do experiments on my own to advance scientific questions. And I never stopped since!

    • Photo: Zena Hadjivasiliou

      Zena Hadjivasiliou answered on 17 Mar 2015:

      I started thinking about questions to do with the way nature and our world works when I was about 18, studying maths at university. I only started doing research and coming up with my own ideas about nature and biology when I was doing my masters degree and I did a research project on genetics (so looking at the way people’s DNA changes). After that I decided this is what I want to do and so went on to do a PhD which is a research degree for people who want to do research and work at universities. So I’d say, I feel like I’ve been doing science in a mature sort of way for about 5 years 🙂

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