• Question: How did you get into your caereer

    Asked by Hi to Alison, Hannah, Jonny, MarthaNari, Paul on 18 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Photographer Boy.
    • Photo: Paul Brack

      Paul Brack answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I got into my PhD by doing a summer placement at a company. They thought I was good and offered to provide some funding for a PhD project for me, which was very nice of them, so naturally I accepted!

    • Photo: Jonny Brooks-Bartlett

      Jonny Brooks-Bartlett answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I was studying maths at university in Southampton and realised I liked applying maths to problems in biology. I then moved to Oxford and during my first year studying I met a professor of Biochemistry, Elspeth Garman and I got on really well with her. Even though I didn’t study the same things she did, she convinced me to work with her and I accepted, so now I work in Biochemistry shooting X-rays at crystals.

    • Photo: Martha Havenith

      Martha Havenith answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I did an internship at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research while I was studying psychology. At some point I accidentally met my future Ph.D. supervisor while talking about some experiments in the corridor. We realized we could think together really well, so I kept working with him through my undergrad, went to the UK for my M.Sc. for a year and then came back to do my Ph.D. with him. After that I visited different labs to see where I wanted to do my next project, and ended up in a lab in London for a few years.

    • Photo: Alison Whitaker

      Alison Whitaker answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      When I was studying I didn’t like the analysis tools available so I created my own. A year later I was looking for some work and applied for a job in the IT department at the British Museum and it turned out they were applying similar methods to a problem, but using more advanced technology. So I got a job there and learnt on the job. Then I started thinking of ways of analysing data and applying technology for different types of problems, which is what has led me to my current role.

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