Question: If you would choose another job to do with science what would it be?

Natalia Brodaczewska answered on 9 Mar 2020:

This is a hard question! There are many areas of science which I find very interesting. I quite like computers and if I had another life, I would try to learn some programming languages and become a bioinformatician. It is an area of science which is becoming bigger every year as we keep on collecting more data that needs to be stored and analysed. Just to give you idea, if we try to save DNA from one human onto a computer using current methods, it takes about 200 gigabytes which means that it would take up all the storage space on my laptop. So if we want to collect DNA from many people, we’re going to have to find a way of storing it somewhere and then to be able to search through all this information quickly. So I think being a bioinformatician could be a really cool and useful job!