• Question: Who inspired you to take the job you are now doing?

    Asked by souledge to Clare, Dave, Glo, Ozge, Sean on 16 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Sean Clement

      Sean Clement answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I’d be lying if I said Ol’ Sir David Attenborough didn’t have something to do with it…!

    • Photo: Dave Sproson

      Dave Sproson answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I reckon probably my science teachers at school are probably ultimately responsible for it: they were the ones who made me enthusiastic about science in the first place!

    • Photo: Ozge Ozkaya

      Ozge Ozkaya answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      My biology teacher when I was 11!

    • Photo: Gloeta Massie

      Gloeta Massie answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Dr. Michael Black, a professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. (He would totally kill me if he knew I was putting that out on the interwebs!). Truly though – I remember the first time I sat down in his class, 20 September 2005. Before that moment, it never crossed my mind to be a research scientist – (truth was, I hadn’t really enjoyed science in school and I was atrocious at maths!). I walked out of his lecture 90 minutes later and I knew that my life would never be the same. So thanks, Dr. Black!

      (I also have to give a shout out to the Monterey Bay Aquarium – the place that really put the ‘fun’ back into science for me!)

    • Photo: Clare Woulds

      Clare Woulds answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I had a very inspirational chemistry teacher, who was really enthusiastic and made everything really clear, so he has a lot to answer for. Then, at every stage in my career there has been someone who is a few years ahead of me and I have thought ‘I want to be like them’. It’s good to have something to aim for.

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