• Question: how long have you been a scientist?

    Asked by anon-310530 on 13 Feb 2022.
    • Photo: Valerie Vancollie

      Valerie Vancollie answered on 13 Feb 2022:

      I have now worked in science for 15 years, but I would probably add on my uni years to that as I did some research in a lab there as part of my thesis.

    • Photo: Melanie Krause

      Melanie Krause answered on 13 Feb 2022:

      Hi Courtney,
      That’s actually a fun question because for a long time I didn’t know if I was ‘allowed’ to call myself a scientist. Like when I was a PhD student I was doing science but especially at the beginning I wouldn’t call myself a scientist because I thought ‘oh I’m just a student and don’t know anything and I can’t claim to be a scientist’.
      I still have that feeling when nothing works but I would say I have been calling myself a scientist more confidently for 3/4 years now.. but I started my PhD in 2015 so quite a while before that 😉

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