• Question: What is the greatest thing you've achieved in your job ?

    Asked by anon-238738 to James, Hannah, Claire, Chris, binuraj, Alice on 9 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Hannah Blyth

      Hannah Blyth answered on 9 Mar 2020: last edited 9 Mar 2020 7:21 pm

      First I would like to thank you for asking this question, scientists can often forget to sit back and look at what they have achieved (even if it is only small things). 🙂 I think that the greatest thing I have achieved in my PhD work so far is either presenting my poster at an international conference OR successfully showing that I have transformed the fungus I work on (changing its DNA). The greatest thing I have achieved was on work experience where I discovered two asteroids and co-discovered a comet fragmenting.

    • Photo: Binuraj Menon

      Binuraj Menon answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      Hi Butterfly firework (nice name by the way),

      We (scientists) are excited on small things and our achievements are always relative to each stage of our career ( here I am not talking about scientific discoveries). The biggest achievement for any scientists would be getting a Nobel Prize. But presenting out work infront of others, publishing our work in high impact journals, engaging with different group of people etc etc, I consider all of them as great achievements for a scientist.

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