• Question: How will what you're doing now effect your future?

    Asked by BeckyJadeR to Rebecca, Matthew, Laura on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Laura Schofield

      Laura Schofield answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Depending on how well I do in my PhD will ultimately decide what jobs I can get. If I’m really successful, I can go for any job I want. But also, if my process works and gets taken on by the company that sponsor me, it will affect all our futures! It will mean that the way we make certain plastics will change forever and we don’t need to rely on oil to make them!

    • Photo: Rebecca Ingle

      Rebecca Ingle answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      If things go well for me now I’ll be able to call myself a doctor in two years, have made some interesting contributions to the scientific community and we’ll also have a much better idea of how things like frog suncreens work and how molecules decide which bond is going to break when you shine light on them.

    • Photo: Matthew Camilleri

      Matthew Camilleri answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      My work will definitely effect my future, I am still fully undecided what to do next, I am still on my first month of my PhD, so it might take a number of different twists and turns.

      When I make my reaction to work, and hopefully it is a when rather then an if, I will be able to try and build a reactor on the roof of the University and see if my reactions can actually be made to work using direct sun light in a flow reactor.

      If that works then I will have the possibility to write a number of papers, which are very important in the science community which would give me the possibility of having a number of different high paying jobs. Ofc, it is always really cool that I would have found a method how to decrease the price of drug production, and maybe revolutionise this area of chemistry.

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