• Question: What is your overall goal within your research area?

    Asked by 449prtb42 to Jackie, Michele, Oliver, Vicky, Yelong on 13 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Jaclyn Bell

      Jaclyn Bell answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      For now my goal is to get my PhD and pass my exam before christmas! Then I will be qualified to get a higher research position if I wanted to 🙂 I’m working on getting a paper published at the minute too so thats high up on my goals list 😉

    • Photo: Oliver Brown

      Oliver Brown answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Like Jackie, I’m also a PhD Student, only I’m near the start so my goals are to get my code working and see if it can really do what my supervisor and I want it to!

      I’m actually in a centre for condensed matter research, so overall we’re interested in understanding everything we can about different states of matter, but especially solids and liquids. More specific research aims include finding superconductivity, developing new electronics, and even quantum computing!

    • Photo: Michele Faucci Giannelli

      Michele Faucci Giannelli answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Now that the Higgs boson has been discovered we want to understand all its properties. That is the first goal of the next run of the LHC which will start in few weeks from now.
      Taking a step back and looking at the open questions in particle physics I think the next major discovery will need to explain what is dark matter. Then there is the hierarchy problem to be understood, but for that there are several dedicated experiments.

    • Photo: Vicky Bayliss

      Vicky Bayliss answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      I work in the Teschnology department at the STFC (Science Technology and Facilities Council) – so our goal is to be able to build whatever crazy, extreme technology CERN and the other facilities want next.

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