• Question: What is the best thing that has happened in your career:)?

    Asked by anon-349199 on 14 Mar 2023.
    • Photo: Lucien Heurtier

      Lucien Heurtier answered on 14 Mar 2023:

      Ah that’s an interesting question. Here are a few things that come to my mind:

      For my second research job, I got to work in Arizona for three years, and THAT was a wonderful experience.

      It was sunny almost every day, sunsets there looked fantastic, I could have breakfast outside every morning and watch hummingbirds fly around cacti, my apartment building had a jacuzzi and swimming pool, and the landscape really looked like in western movies.

      That’s also where I met my wife, so I’m glad I went and worked there!

      I miss that time, and I would never have lived there if that were not for work. Does that count as a career experience? 🙂

    • Photo: Zoltan Lipp

      Zoltan Lipp answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      15-20 years ago I was an engineer working in a team, that designed a medical X-ray machine and later my grandmother had an operation using that X-ray machine I participated in developing.

    • Photo: Vicky Fawcett

      Vicky Fawcett answered on 15 Mar 2023:

      I got to visit Iceland to attend a black hole conference – the science was really interesting and exploring Iceland was amazing! Loved seeing the volcanos and glaciers 🙂

    • Photo: Stuart Clare

      Stuart Clare answered on 17 Mar 2023:

      I think it is learning new, and sometime surprising things. For example when I did an experiment where we measured brain activity in someone who had been blind from birth and it was so different to someone who had sight. I was really surprised and exited to be part of that.

      It is hard to say ‘best part’ of my career, but at the start of the Covid lockdown, I had lots of video calls with other scientists to see how we could help understand covid. It was a time when all scientists that I knew all wanted to do what they could on the one problem, rather than all working on their own thing. It was a privilege to be part of. Some or our experiences from that time were filmed and you can watch here: https://www.win.ox.ac.uk/for-the-public/what-we-are-discovering/inside-the-covid-brain-1

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  • Photo: Bernice

    Bernice commented on :

    I have had some fun times in my career, I loved going into supermarkets and seeing a product I had developed, or a product that contained one of my raw materials in it, and I always loved being able to explain things to customers and get them to understand what the raw materials did. Now I have my perfect job explaining cosmetic science to people in the industry and even members of the public, developing new courses and working with industry experts.