• Question: How has your career changed in the past years and do you see it changing again in the near future?

    Asked by CharleyG on 14 Jun 2023.
    • Photo: Ferran Brosa Planella

      Ferran Brosa Planella answered on 14 Jun 2023:

      In the past few years I have been progressing in the academic career path. After finishing my PhD in 2018, I started as a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. I was in that position for 3 years, before being promoted to Senior Research Fellow, which has a bit more independence to it. Finally, last September I started my current position as Assistant Professor, which combines research and teaching. Going forward I am planning on progressing to Associate Professor, Reader and eventually Full Professor.

    • Photo: Amy Stockwell

      Amy Stockwell answered on 15 Jun 2023:

      Yes. I’ve always worked in science. I started off in research and development (R&D) for a food company. In 18 years I’ve been a packaging developer, a product developer, helped factories to optimise production, assessed patents, and tried to prove that a novel food product was safe. Then I started learning about environmental impacts and became the company expert. I didn’t know that most of these roles existed when I was at university.

      Now I work for a consultancy helping other companies to calculate their environmental impacts. Right now I really enjoy the job and it is a growing area.

      But in 10 years time, who knows what new jobs will exist?

    • Photo: Alexander De Bruin

      Alexander De Bruin answered on 16 Jun 2023:

      I have found myself doing more work with people and guiding the science that other people are doing. I think I will probably continue in my path out of the lab and into something technical but not in the lab (some manner of scientific manager / technical-commercial) over the next few years

    • Photo: Festus Ejikemeuwa

      Festus Ejikemeuwa answered on 19 Jun 2023:

      I have moved into Project Management having worked as an Engineer for a over 10 years. So I want to grow in this field but you never know what happens tomorrow especially in this era of squiggly careers.

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