• Question: how long did it take for you to become a plastic scientist?

    Asked by anon-335910 on 6 Oct 2022.
    • Photo: Dan Day

      Dan Day answered on 6 Oct 2022:

      I started my undergraduate degree in 2012. In my 3rd year I did an industrial placement trying to make green plastics. I then went on to do a PhD in polymer chemistry from 2016-2020 and now work as a green polymer chemist

    • Photo: Francis Batchelor

      Francis Batchelor answered on 6 Oct 2022:

      I did 5 years at University, then did a job with cars for 3 years, then joined my current company in plastics and have been here 5 years.
      I guess I became a plastics scientist at that moment, but maybe it was after 2 years I started to fully understand the details of plastics.

    • Photo: Justin Perry

      Justin Perry answered on 9 Oct 2022:

      I followed the usual route into being a professional chemist, and more by accident than design, I have ended up working on plastics than other areas of chemistry or science.
      Actually what happened was that I was talking to someone at a wedding reception, and after chatting about normal things(!), we discovered we were both working on different types of chemistry but that one of my ideas might work really well in plastic coatings and so we started working together on that… That was 20 years ago.

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