• Question: What kind of place do you work and what is your research trying to find out?

    Asked by the real tom to Adrian, Gaia, Jim, Scott, Vicky on 7 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Gaia Andreoletti

      Gaia Andreoletti answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      I work in a hospital setting, collaborating with other scientists, doctors and nurses. My workplace is an open plan office with desks, computers and a fast internet connection 🙂 The research aims to find bad genetic mutations in children presenting with inflammatory bowel disease with the use of a supercomputer to improve the diagnosis, treatment and long-term care for patients diagnosed with paediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

    • Photo: Adrian Buzatu

      Adrian Buzatu answered on 7 Mar 2016:

      I collaborate at the largest lab in the world. It’s called CERN. I analyse data there to find out about the smallest building blocks of the Universe.

    • Photo: Scott Lawrie

      Scott Lawrie answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      I work in a large national lab called the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) just South of Oxford in the UK. Here we have all the biggest, most fantastic science machines in the country. We use them to study and improve everyday things like jet planes, train wheels, shampoo, computer chips, chocolate, spider webs, touch-screen phones, batteries… anything!

      My part of it is the ‘ion source’ at the very start of one of the machines. Read more about it on my profile 😀

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