• Question: in 15 years time what do yourself doing?

    Asked by rachel4 to David, James, Mike, Suze, Will on 15 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by sarahi.
    • Photo: James Marrow

      James Marrow answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I think I’ll be still doing science, but how I’ll be doing it I don’t know. Many of the tools that I use now were not invented 15 years ago.

      An example: 15 years ago, I was doing my research without a computer, without emails and without the internet! It was still fun and challenging.

    • Photo: Mike Dodd

      Mike Dodd answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I will be working to educate people about science. I love science and I want to spread the message, that it can be fun to do science and that science impacts the life around you. Whether this is working for a research charity or teaching, I don’t know yet. But I do know that I will still being doing, talking and loving science in 15 years. 🙂

    • Photo: Suze Kundu

      Suze Kundu answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I would love to be involved with something scientific still, but I don’t know how or where. I am getting quite into science communication, so I think that whatever job I do have, I’d like to still keep up with promoting science and generating excitement about it on the side!

      Where do you see yourself in 15 years? On the other side of I’m A Scientist?!

    • Photo: William Eborall

      William Eborall answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I really don’t know yet 🙂 I’m not sure what I’ll be doing 2 years from now. I hope to stay in science as it’s a great environment to work in but you never know where your life will take you.

    • Photo: David Ingram

      David Ingram answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I have a photograph on my office wall by Jean Guichard http://www.alphapix.com/jument.shtml (you can see the whole lighthouse on http://www.postershop.co.uk/Guichard-Jean/Guichard-Jean-Phare-dans-la-Tempete-La-Jument-II-8400292.html ) Its a brilliant picture which shows lots of great fluid flows phenomena – breaking waves, Mach reflection, etc. I tell everyone when I can build a computer model which simulates it I will retire.

      At the moment we can do some things (e.g. break up an spray from a small part of one wave) but the whole problem is very complex. So in 15 years time I suspect I’ll still be trying to simulate it.

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