• Question: what one off all of yous are the most experamental person

    Asked by finlayjbrown to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 10 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Rowena Fletcher-Wood

      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Probably not me. My experiments require short bursts of practical work ~half an hour at a time. I spent most of my time analysing what I made and working out intricate details of what it looks and behaves like. This usually involves putting it inside machines that fire x-rays beams at the samples to “probe” them whilst I stand off and watch.

    • Photo: Kate Nicholson

      Kate Nicholson answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Probably not me either! Same sort of story, a few bursts of experiments for a couple of hours then the rest of the week analysing a lot of data. The book work is mostly collecting data then a few hours analysing it.

    • Photo: Nicola Rogers

      Nicola Rogers answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      It could be me… I don’t know – my PhD research required me to be in the lab pretty much every day. Making fluorescent compunds takes several months in the lab, and then making nanoparticles takes about half a day. Characterising the nanoparticles takes several weeks of short bursts (3-4 hr experiments) and all the microscopy takes days at a time… I am very rarely at my desk

    • Photo: Roy Adkin

      Roy Adkin answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Hi Finlay,
      Not me at the moment…I’m still reading LOTS of scientific papers and reviews to help me decide what compounds I want to test. Then I’ll be in the lab every day…first to make my fluorescent europium and terbium complexes and then to prepare the solutions. Once that’s done I’ll be mixing them with my chosen compounds and putting them in a fluorimeter to see what they do when I shine UV light on the mixture.

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