• Question: What is your favourite thing about being a scientist?

    Asked by anon-326135 on 16 May 2022.
    • Photo: Martina Conti

      Martina Conti answered on 16 May 2022:

      My favourite thing about being a scientist is solving problems and finding answers mostly by designing experiments in the lab. I enjoy being in the lab and every day is different!

    • Photo: John Grasmeder

      John Grasmeder answered on 16 May 2022:

      My favourite things about being a scientist are solving new problems for our customers by finding answers and learning new things from experiments. Sometimes the experiments work, sometimes they don’t, so we have to do a lot of experiments. These days we do some experiments on computers and some in the lab. When the experiments do work, we can use what we’ve learned to make new materials which we can then sell to our customers.

    • Photo: Muhammad Naveed Arshad

      Muhammad Naveed Arshad answered on 17 May 2022:

      My favorite thing being scientist is thinking different and believing in innovations. I love exploring earth from Satellites and observing our earth from atmosphere.

    • Photo: Kat Hunter

      Kat Hunter answered on 25 May 2022:

      I love how fun and challenging the work is, it’s never boring. It’s the best job ever.

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 1 Jun 2022:

      Everyday is different and you never know what you will discover!!

    • Photo: Filip Anies

      Filip Anies answered on 1 Jun 2022:

      It’s a fantastic privilege to be able to work with something that truly interests you, and to be able to shape your own work around what you feel like doing. Sometimes you decide to do something simply because you’re curious about something that nobody knows the answer to yet! So you allow curiosity to be the driving force of your work, and you get to shape your own projects. Building your own project and seeing it grow into completeness is really amazing!

    • Photo: Krissy Reeve

      Krissy Reeve answered on 9 Jun 2022:

      Great question! For me, I love the process. I feel like a detective, trying to figure out how the world works. Collecting “evidence” in the form of measurements, and trying to fit the clues together like a puzzle, and then sharing my findings with others. Each step is really fun (but sometimes I want to scream at my computer!), but the most exciting parts are the measurements in the field, and talking about my research to large audiences.

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