• Question: Where were you born?

    Asked by to Ben, Dave, Ditte, Heather, Rebecca on 18 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Ditte Hedegaard answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      Hi

      I was actually born in Copenhagen, Denmark, but moved to Birmingham in 2010 to work with the Hepatitis C virus.
      The science field is very international so you can pretty much get a job anywhere in the world. One of my friends just moved to Malaysia to work as a scientist.

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      Rebecca Gladstone answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      Hi there 🙂
      I was born in London, I wen to School and University in Scotland and now I have moved to Cambridge so that I could work on a large global project that really interested me, 20,000 bacterial genomes!

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      Ben White answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      Hi @brownman007 , I was born down south near Brighton, and stayed there until I moved to Norwich to study my undergrad in Biological Sciences. And I’ve stayed here since; we have mustard and a decent football team.

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      Heather Ritchie answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      I’m probably the least well traveled in terms of living in different places as I was born in Aberdeen, Scotland (but grew up in Peterhead) and did my undergraduate degree and masters degree there and I’m still there doing my PhD! Because my work is on the deepest parts of the sea and they are mostly in the Pacific Ocean I do most of my field work abroad. Last year I spent over 3 months in New Zealand or at sea!

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      Dave Baker answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      North Devon. Dad was in the RAF and posted there but both parents from London. My dad was actually born during the Second World War in 1944. Dad left the Royal Air Force when I was 4 so I stayed in Devon until I left for uni.

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