• Question: have you always been interested in the subject you work in ?

    Asked by anon-186380 to Trystan, Raquel, Danny, Catherine, Andy on 7 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Catherine Smith

      Catherine Smith answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      Not specifically. I was always quite keen on science when I was at school. I did biology at university and some of the modules that I enjoyed most covered statistics and infectious diseases. I’m now working on both – my research involves applying statistics to infectious disease data.

    • Photo: Trystan Leng

      Trystan Leng answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      While infectious diseases have always interested me, I only started to really learn about them, and how maths can be used to model the spread of diseases, during my masters. Before this I had no idea I would end up researching infectious diseases!

    • Photo: Raquel Medialdea Carrera

      Raquel Medialdea Carrera answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      I have always being interested in helping people through public health. I started being interested in Epidemics during the Ebola epidemic in 2014! 🙂

    • Photo: Danny Ward

      Danny Ward answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      No, not really! It was during university that I found I really enjoyed molecular microbiology and infectious diseases. Before university, it wasn’t taught to me during school so I never even knew my specific field existed.

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