• Question: What do you like most about your job?

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      Laura Durrant answered on 1 Oct 2025:

      I really like exploring all the new technologies coming out in the field. Genomics is an area of science that’s advancing really fast, so biotechnology companies are inventing lots of new and better ways to sequence the genome.

      You might have heard of the Human Genome Project which ran between 1990 – 2003. It was the fist time that all 46 human chromosomes (known as the genome) were sequenced from end-to-end. It took 13 years to complete between the years 1990 – 2003… fast forward to today, and some modern technologies can do this in just 24 hours! It’s really quite remarkable.

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      Caroline Roche answered on 15 Oct 2025:

      I like learning about new things, whether that is new process I am working with, new technology that is available or even learning about what all the different scientists and engineers on my projects do.
      Science is such broad subject and career path that there is always something new to learn about or different area to explore.

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      Martin McCoustra answered on 20 Jan 2026:

      I’ve always enjoyed finding out new stuff… Discovery can be thrilling but then going on to tell people about it is equally important. You can’t do science without spending time telling people about what you’ve discovered. That’s how we progress scientifically and technically.

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      Kalina Dimitrova answered on 20 Jan 2026:

      What I like most is making things safe and useful for people.

      As a structural engineer, I get to figure out how buildings and bridges can stand up without falling down. I like solving puzzles: working out how forces like weight, wind, and earthquakes move through a structure and choosing the right shapes and materials to handle them.

      It’s also rewarding to see something that started as lines on paper turn into a real building that people use every day, knowing it’s strong and safe because of the work I did.

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      Daisy Pickup answered on 23 Jan 2026:

      I like the chance to be able to go on fieldwork around the world and travel for conferences. But I also like that the day to day work is really interesting. Collecting data from regions where not a lot is known about them means there are lots of puzzles and things to figure out, and I love doing that!

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      Jonathan Mound answered on 26 Jan 2026:

      Helping students to discover new things and gain new skills is always rewarding. I also enjoy the puzzling and problem solving aspect of undertaking novel scientific research, figuring out how to answer a question that hasn’t been answered before.

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      emilyw answered on 11 Mar 2026:

      i like trying to solve problems and work with lots of different data sets. Being able to work with different people from across the world is also really fun and doing outreach projects like this is so rewarding.

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      Cara Waters answered on 26 Mar 2026:

      I like that I get to work with people all across the world who do different bits of space physics. We talk to each other by video calls to work out who can help with different pieces of work, and we travel all over the world to visit each other and to go to conferences where people all present their results.

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