• Question: What made you go into the field of science you are currently in?

    Asked by kathanhal to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 17 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by beckybeth.
    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      I have had an interest in psychology since I learned about it. I first was interested in sleep and I wanted to do Electroencephalogram research on sleep phases. Then, when I started at uni, I became interested in how people process directions, such as right and left. After working in a lab on children’s behaviour, I just fell in love with understanding how children develop emotions and pro-social behaviours.

    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      I have always had a fascination with the natural world, and had my first chance to see volcanoes when I lived in Chile for a year as a small child. I think that it just grew from there – I had a rock and fossil collection, and read whatever I could find. I didn’t actually study geology until I went to University – and wasn’t really until then that I became sure that I could make a career out of my hobby. I didn’t specialise in volcanoes until after I had finished my first degree, and started in research.

    • Photo: Melanie Stefan

      Melanie Stefan answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      I really couldn’t decide whether I wanted to go into maths or biology, because I think both are awesome. While at uni, I found out that there is a field of science – computational biology – that combines the two, so I thought, that’s cool, that’s what I want to do. Within computational biology, I decided to study the brain, because I think it’s amazing – it’s very complex, it can be studied at many different levels (proteins, cells, behaviour etc.), and it defines who we are more than any other organ.

    • Photo: Mark Vesey

      Mark Vesey answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      I find it interesting and enjoyable.

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