• Question: What are the subjects that have lead up to your current work?

    Asked by anon-186936 to David, Kathryn, Laura, Marton, Miriam, Stewart on 9 Nov 2018.
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      David Ho answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      For GCSE I took maths, english, biology, chemistry, physics, history, french, drama, business studies and RE (wow, it’s been a while since I had to remember that!)

      For A-level I took maths, further maths, physics, chemistry and biology.

      I did Natural Sciences at university, where I studied Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science and Maths in my first year. Then by my fourth year at uni I was specialising in Physics.

      And now I study theoretical physics!

      I think the most important subjects for me have been maths and physics, but different types of scientist would probably give very different answers!

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      Laura Kent answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      For GCSE I did maths, English Lit and Language, double science (not triple as I wanted to do history as well!), History, Geography, German, Food Technology.
      At A-level I did Maths, Chemistry and Philosophy and Ethics and I also did an AS in Physics and Government & Politics.
      At University I did an undergraduate Masters in Chemistry with an industrial placement year at a printed electronics company.
      And finally….I did my PhD in Materials Chemistry! So for me Chemistry has always been important but I thin its good to have a broad range of subjects as it gives you different views and skills!

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      Marton Olbei answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      I did a Bachelor’s degree in microbiology, and a Master’s degree in molecular genetics before I started my PhD

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      Stewart Martin-Haugh answered on 10 Nov 2018:

      An easy one I guess: maths and physics at GCSE, maths and physics at A-level, then physics degree and physics PhD.

      For any area of science or engineering nowadays, it’s important to know how to code. I was lucky to have work placements where I learnt how to program. In those days (2005 onwards) it was harder, but now there are lots of resources online.

      This website looks like a good way to learn it:
      https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python
      but there are lots of tutorials out there.
      Python is a really good language to learn, you can do lots with it.

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