Favourite Thing: I like educating people about how they can contribute to reducing their impact on the environment and watching their change in behaviour.
What I do: I research, develop and write environmental management policy for the land estate of the Royal Navy.
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whats the meaning of life?
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And the Silicon zone winner of IAS 2010 is..... (12 comments)
Favourite Thing: Getting an interesting result. Not necessarily the result you ‘expected’, but something that makes you think. Something that opens up possibilities and new avenues, or goes some way to explaining other results/backing up your pet hypothesis.
What I do: I’m a PhD student living in central London and working in a cancer research lab!
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Do you like wearing your Lab Coat?
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We’re at the halfway point, and the next scientist to leave Silicon is.... (7 comments)
Favourite Thing: Creating things such as a new experiment or idea to test a hunch/theory. I also really like working with a range of people from different disciplines or universities as not only to you get to meet new people you also learn a lot.
What I do: My main aim as an ecologist is to develop ways to increase food availability for hungry humans but in such a way that doesn’t damage the environment
Latest Question:
How close are you to being able to propel something at 90,000 metres/s?
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And the Silicon zone winner of IAS 2010 is..... (12 comments)
Favourite Thing: Beans on toast. Oh, favourite thing in science! Seeing how scientists from different backgrounds can come together to discover and create something truly innovative! It’s at these boundaries between areas of expertise that the sparks really fly.
What I do: I help people make science-informed decisions about stuff that affects them.
Latest Question:
Who decides which new words go into a dictionary?
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And the Silicon zone winner of IAS 2010 is..... (12 comments)
Favourite Thing: Any scientist worth their salt will say that their favourite thing is when an unexpected or novel result happens that makes them feel like they’ve entered new territory. It doesn’t have to be on an Einstein/Newton/Watson and Crick-scale just something that hasn’t been described before. I think scientists (certainly I do) generally enjoy playing Devil’s advocate as well. There’s nothing more fun than backing the minority opinion against received wisdom.
What I do: I’m working on developing new treatments for lung disease at the Centre for Inflammation Research in Edinburgh.
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How would you describe your personality in just one word?
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And the Silicon zone winner of IAS 2010 is..... (12 comments)
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