Question: what is your favourite thing about your job that made you choose it

Alex Holmes answered on 12 Jun 2020:

Hi Hamzah!

So I chose my job because it was a combination of a lot of different things! The research area covers both plants and microbes which seemed cool, and then I also knew I’d be doing biochemistry and biophysics (biology is my favourite so good thing I managed to combine it with both chemistry and physics right?) which meant I knew I’d be able to do lots of different kinds of experiments not just stick to one thing!

And this is exactly what my favourite thing about my job is now! Every day is different: I can plan my time to be in a biology lab one day growing cells or playing with bacteria, or another day I could be working with chemists using computers to design chemicals and then making them in the lab, or I could spend a day working with super computers and making simulations, all depending on what part of my project I want to work on each day!!