• Question: How much funding are you hoping to get? What was your favorite subject at school presides science? Final Question do you have any Kids or a wife?

    Asked by Dr Mr Professor Sir Tom III to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alex Pool

      Alex Pool answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Wow lots of questions.

      Funding is really hard, my boss just got some funding for half a million pounds so that’s great news!

      Outside of science I used to love English and History.

      And I’m engaged, so we’re getting married in just over a year, no kids though.

      Alex

    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I’m hoping to get loads of funding! We’ve just applied for a quarter of a million pounds, so hopefully we’ll get it!
      My favourite subjects were music and P.E – I was super musical and sporty!
      I don’t have any kids or a husband, but I do have a boyfriend =)

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Funding is a painful subject at the moment, especially in Italy. There’s not a lot of money around and so not much gets given to the sort of research I do, which is not seen as being so immediately useful. Anyway I’m a theorist, so I mainly need a computer to calculations with and write scientific papers.
      Besides science, I’d have to say physical education. I did lots of sports (seriously) at school: rugby, cricket, athletics, badminton, trampoline and occasionally basketball. I was county champio at long jump, finalist in the county championships in badminton and played county rugby – I then got straight A’s at A-levels and went to Cambridge.
      So don’t let anyone tell you that sport and study don’t mix, that’s absolute rubbish.
      Two kids (Alberto, 15 and Alice 13 – both play rugby) and my wife Sandra is a physicist too (working on experiments at CERN, Geneva).

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