• Question: Do you only work in a lab or do you go outside to work?

    Asked by Crazykitten to Jackie, Michele, Oliver, Vicky, Yelong on 8 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Oliver Brown

      Oliver Brown answered on 8 Mar 2015:

      So, as a theorist I don’t actually have a lab — I work at a desk! It’s not usually warm enough in Edinburgh to go outside, but on the rare occasions it is my friends and I find somewhere nice in Heriot-Watt’s grounds to sit and read journal articles, or textbooks, or work on our laptops!

    • Photo: Michele Faucci Giannelli

      Michele Faucci Giannelli answered on 8 Mar 2015:

      Usually I work in the office, that is the best place since I have better access to all resources I need, mainly computing. However I can work wherever I have an internet connection, so in the past worked from home, in airports, coffee shops and so on. I travel to CERN every other month to work with colleagues there and to help run the ATLAS detector.

    • Photo: Jaclyn Bell

      Jaclyn Bell answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      Yeah I’m the same as Ollie, I’m usually at my desk or in the library when I am doing calculations on my laptop or writing a paper… and some days I work at home as long as I can get a decent connection to log in to the computers at uni. I do make the most of a sunny day tho where I’ll take my books outside and work on topping up my (non-existent) tan haha 😛

    • Photo: Vicky Bayliss

      Vicky Bayliss answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I work either at my desk or in our lab – we’re really lucky to have a large lab because we work with cryogens (liquids at low temperatures like Nitrogen at 77K and Helium at 4K). when those liquids warm up and become gases they expand 700 times – so if we had a small lab there might be a risk of oxygen depletion if all the air mixed and the oxygen levels become too low, which could result in death… so we get a nice big air-y lab!

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